Title: Good Morning and Welcome
1Good Morning and Welcome!
- Please take a copy of the handouts on the table
and help yourself to coffee.
2Collaboration
- Who teachers are to one another is as important
as who they are to their students. In
high-performing and improving schools in numerous
students, collaboration is the norm.
3The CAI Model
- Curriculum, Assessment, and Instruction
Curriculum The What Standards Essential
Questions Learning Targets
Assessment The Progress Deciding what Is best
to measure Student learning in Relation to the
standards
Instruction The methods used To
facilitate Student learning
Student Learning
4Assessment and Student Motivation
- Has a sense of control and choice
- Gets frequent and specific feedback on
performance - Encounters tasks that are challenging, but not
threatening - Is able to self-assess accurately
- Encounters learning tasks related to everyday life
5Identifying the Standards in Your Course
- What is a Standards-Based Course?
- Standards
- Identify essential state standards
- Chosen standards must be assessed
- Distinguish between multiple standard areas
- Required Standards
- Connections to other courses, vertically and
horizontally - Information Technology Literacy Standards (ITLS)
6 Writing Learning Targets
- What students should know and be able to do in
order to meet the standard - Specific to your course, but not dictating
instructional strategies - How many?
- There may be more than one learning target per
standard - Occasionally, there are standards that do not
need a learning target - Usefor example and such as statements in
learning targets, as needed
7Testing Your Learning Targets
If students
- Define and provide examples of solids, liquids,
gases - Using a variety of substances (e.g. water,
alcohol, Jello) to demonstrate the capacity of
each substance to exist as a solid, liquid, or
gas - Explain how a substance can exist in different
statessolid, liquid, or gas) -
Insert Target
then they will
Insert Standard
Understand that substances can exist in
different statessolid, liquid, or gas
8What Assessment Types Match Your Learning
Targets?
- Assessment Types
- CRConstructed Response
- SRSelected Response
- PAPerformance Assessment
- OObservation (formal)
- Match the assessment type to the learning target
- Most appropriate types?
- Not appropriate types?
9What Are Essential Questions?
- Essential Questions are those that
- Beg to be answered or debated
- Cause students to think
- Require students to explore or understand course
content - Require students to use processing skills
- Require students to learn new information
- Critically analyze and combine new information
with old - Cause students to use both skills and content to
answer the question - Point toward a Learning Target(s) or Standard(s)
10Writing Essential Questions
- What is a concept?
- Broad and abstract
- Represented by 1 or 2 words
- Universal in application
- Timeless, carries through the ages
- Represented by different examples that share
common attributes
11Examples
- Formative
- Anecdotal records
- Quizzes
- Essays
- Diagnostic tests
- Lab reports
- Observations
- Journals
- Summative
- Final exams
- State tests
- National tests
- Entrance exams
- Chapter tests
- Projects
- Final copies
12Pre-assessment
- A method, strategy or process
- Determining students current level of readiness
- Prior mastery of knowledge
- Prior mastery of understanding
- Skills
- Interest
- Wanting to know
- Wanting to understand
- Wanting to do more
13PossiblePre-assessments
- Pretest
- Inventory
- Checklist
- Observation
- Self-evaluation
- Questioning
- Interviews
14Ongoing Assessment
- Uncovering student understandings
- Uncovering student misunderstandings
- Strategies for quick assessments
15What do you know about time?
16What do you know about_______________?
17Please draw and write about___________________.
18Exit Card
193-2-1 Card
20Exit Cards
- Draw the orbit of the earth around the sun.
- Label your drawing
- What causes seasons?
21Knowledge Rating Chart
- I have never heard of this before
- I have heard of this, but not sure how it works
- I know about this and how to use it
- ________Direct object
- ________Indirect object
- ________Adjective
22RAFT
- Assume a ROLE
- Consider an AUDIENCE
- Write in a particular FORMAT
- Examine a TOPIC
23RAFT
24Tiered Assignments
- In a heterogeneous classroom, a teacher uses
varied levels of activities to ensure that
students explore ideas at a level that builds on
their prior knowledge and prompts continued
growth. Student groups use varied approached to
explore essential ideas.
25Reflection
- The most important school based intervention
for students is a challenging educational program
that provides an optimal academic and social
match for the students pace, level, and pattern
on learning.