Formative Assessments Monday January 30, 2012

Learning objective  By the end of this literacy PLC meeting you will  Know why we are using formative assessment  What is a learning objective  What are NEC expectations for documenting formative assessments

The rhythm to learning:  Formative Assessment: Assessment FOR learning  Takes place during instruction  Provides teachers and students with more frequent evidence  Helps teachers make useful instructional decisions  Students learn about achievement expectations from the beginning of the learning – they are inside the assessment process.

Why  Research-based strategy  Learning can double when used effectively.  John Hattie – Professor of Education at University of Auckland – Influences on Student Learning

List of 46 influences on student achievement. Top Ten…….  1. Feedback  2. Direct Instruction  3. Prior Achievement  4. Lack of disruptive students  5. Quality of teaching  6. Phonological awareness  7. Early intervention  8. Peer assessment  9. Challenging goals  10. Self-assessment

Feedback  Includes telling students what they have done well (actively recognizing student greatness) and what they need to do to improve (clear in our expectations, attainable targets etc.) It also includes clarifying goals. Giving students assessment criteria.  Feedback must be informative, not evaluative.

Bret Stand up  Friday I Pad share

Learning Plan- What do you want them to learn Unclear  Work shop 2  Schedule- just reading on the schedule  Reading worksheet packets  Compare and contrast  Read aloud Clear  A sequence of events and narrative paragraphs  Schedule – reading you will work on short a sounds  You will be reinforcing on beginning and ending sounds in words  You will be able to compare and contrast events in the life of John  You will be making predictions in the read aloud story

How do you know they learned it? Learner Outcome  A sequence of events and narrative paragraphs  Schedule – reading you will work on short a sounds  You will be reinforcing on beginning and ending sounds in words  You will be able to compare and contrast events in the life of John  You will be making predictions in the read aloud story Formative Assessment  Can the student orally say first, next, then  Student will correctly read 5 short a flash cards  Will complete worksheet 80% accuracy  Correctly fill out a venn diagram  Prediction chart- venn diagram as well

Reteach-  Mastery is not the goal  We need to challenge the students- if they are getting 100% mastery we are not offering the challenge  Don’t teach what they know already- teach them what they don’t know  Reinforcing skills is ok, but we also need to amp it up a notch

Formative assessment data expectations  Every licensed staff post one formative assessment every week by Friday.  Classroom paras can post for the licensed staff.  You should be using formative assessments for everything- we are only asking you to post 1 formative 1 time a week in your literacy area of focus (word id, language comprehension, print processing).  If you are in the math PLC you will post 2 times- one for literacy and one for math

Kim Mackenzie

Formative assessment  Learner Outcome  Know why we are using formative assessment  What is a learning objective  What are NEC expectations for documenting formative assessments  Exit Slip  Why are we asking you to use formative assessments?  Provide one learner outcome  What are the expectations for documenting formative assessments?

Go to the Library If….  You have posted 2 or less times on the formative assessment form

Last word!  Stand in your greatness as a professional learning community member, and actively recognize students literacy greatness and be clear in your expectations.