Fostering an Environment for Formative Assessment Defining Formative and Summative Assessment
Agenda 1. Defining Formative and Summative Assessment A. Individually B. Pair-Share C. Group Share 2. Video – Rick Wormeli 3. AAC Key Visual 4. Fostering the Envirnoment – Questions to ask oneself.
Operating Agreement Meeting Behaviours Be open and share ideas, opinions and perceptions. Build trust. Express differences of opinions. Respect differences and one another’s opinions and perceptions. Listen to and hear one another and ask questions if you don’t understand something or need clarification. Discuss issues not people. “Hard on problem, soft on people”. Be able to agree to disagree. Honor confidentiality. Expect responsible behaviour from one another.
Individually Use the white boards and write down your own definition of each: A. Formative Assessment B. Summative Assessment
Pair/Group - Share With a partner/group of 3-4, share your definition of each and try to formulate one definition you can agree upon.
Large Group Discussion What is Formative Assessment? What is Summative Assessment?
Paul Black Quote: "When the cook tastes the soup, that's formative assessment; when the customer tastes the soup, that's summative assessment."
Rick Wormeli
Fostering an Environment of/for Formative Assessment 1) Do I and the students have a classroom that fosters a growth mindset? 2) Do I encourage risk-taking? 3) How do I let students help each other with the lesson (peer feedback/assessment)? 4) How do I know the students learned today’s goal? 5) How do I involve the students in the classroom assessment process? 6) What information do I gather that will impact the next instructional steps? How do I do this? 7) Is it important to give specific, descriptive feedback? If so why? How do I do this? 8) What would happen if I decreased the amount of evaluative (summative) feedback students received? 9) How do I and the students reflect on their learning? 10) Who is doing the most doing in the classroom? Is this optimal for learning?