THEMATIC PLANNING

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(IN)FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT CHANGING CLASSROOM
PRACTICE
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Define Formative Assessment Identify the
Elements of Formative Assessment Explore
Formative Learning and Assessment
Tasks Operationalize Formative Assessment in the
Classroom
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Are teachers assessment savvy?

• Skilled in gathering accurate information about
  student learning?
• Using that data effectively to promote further
  learning?

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Ordo teachers
TEACH, TEST, AND HOPE FOR THE BEST?
Wiggins, 1998
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http//www.alite.co.uk/readings/black.htm
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Assessment Cycle
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Formative Assessment

• Teachers gather and interpret evidence to create
  a roadmap for optimal student learning.

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Finding Just the Right Gap
Formative assessment is the means to identify the
gap between a learners current status and the
desired goal. Different students will have
different gaps. Sadler, 1989
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Matching Action to the GAP

• The zone of proximal development
• Scaffolding instruction

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Matching Action to the GAP
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Developing Learning Progressions
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Giving FEEDBACK to Students

• Clear, descriptive, criterion-based feedback to
  students that indicates
• v where they are in the learning progression
• v how their response differed from that reflected
  in desired learning goal
• v how they can move forward

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Rubrics and the Feedback Process
http//flenj.org/CAPS/?page147
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Sharing Ownership

• Teachers and students share understanding and
  ownership of the learning goals
• Students self-assess progress toward specific
  goals
• Teachers give feedback to students students give
  feedback to teachers
• Students make more knowledgeable decisions about
  learning strategies

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Good learning tasks are good formative
assessments.
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Teaching/Learning Process

• On-going, day-to-day classroom assessment
• Informal
• Class discussions
• Teacher student dialogues
• Observations
• Student groups
• Bell-work and/or exit strategies
• Self- and peer-assessments
• Formal
• Quizzes and/or tests graded or non-graded
• Writing assignments w/descriptive feedback
• Presentations, speeches, etc.

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Pre-Assessment Surfacing Learners Prior Knowledge
Concept Maps Drawing related to topic or
content Guess Box Surveys/Questionnaires/Inventori
es Interest survey KWL charts and other graphic
organizers Open-ended Questioning Prediction Stude
nt interviews Teacher observation/checklists Writ
ing prompts/samples or any Pre-writing activity
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Mind Mapping
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Pre-Assessment Mind Mapping
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Formative Assessment Interpretive Mode
Comprehension of words, concepts, ideas, meaning
of written and oral texts that are culturally
authentic and produced for native speakers
Text, poem, film, work of art, song, poem,
advertisement, music video, book
Translation is not an Interpretive mode task.
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Sample Formative Tasks in the Interpretive Mode

• Fill in graphs, charts, forms, graphic
  organizers
• Follow a route on a map from oral/written
  directions
• Check-off items in a list
• Draw what is described
• Put events from a story in logical order
• Listen for the gistidentify main idea
• Create questions from info in the piece
• Compose a title or headline for a reading or
  listening selection

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Sample Formative Tasks in the Interpretive Mode

• -Traffic Light Cards Red,
• Yellow, Green
• White boards
• Stand up if
• Finger Signaling
• Ripped Vocabulary

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Ripped Vocabulary
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Sample Formative Tasks in the Interpretive Mode

• After searching online about events in Munich,
  create a two-day itinerary for you and your
  family.
• Create a web or a cinquain poem that captures
  what weve learned today about
• Draw a symbol that best portrays this storys
  character as you now understand him (her), and
  write a brief explanation as to why you chose
  that symbol.
• ?

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Sample Formative Tasks

• Exclusion Brainstorming
• Ras-le-bol des mots qui blessent !
• Appartenir à un groupe insulter le look
• Lindividualisme une enquête être nul
• préjugé laffaire du foulard le jugement
• Grosse tête des moqueries lapparence
• Linjustice lambiance positive les ados
• Protester le silence la bonheur
• Le bouc émissaire la solidité blesser
• Directions Cross out the words you dont think
  will be found in this selection and circle the
  words you think you will find.

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Sample Formative Tasks

• Exclusion Brainstorming
• The student identifies the word/concept that
  does not belong with the others, then orally or
  in writing explains his reasoning
• My Carbon Footprint pollution, land usage,
  overpopulation, geography
• Living a Healthy Life food pyramid, texting,
  leisure activities, allergies
• Getting Ready for School doing homework,
  playing a video game, packing a school bag,
  taking a shower,
• ?

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Interpersonal Mode
Spontaneous exchanges that involve negotiation
of meaning between people. They are unrehearsed,
non scripted. Come with information the other
learner does not have, creating an info gap to
provide and obtain information Memorized,
scripted dialogue readings, or skits are not
Interpersonal Mode tasks.
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Interpersonal Mode

• Info Gap
• Socratic Circle
• Pick roles from a story and have a conversation
  between the two characters
• Blog with teens in the target culture
• Share information on a Facebook page
• Make a purchase
• Order in a restaurant
• Obtain directions
• Converse Face to face or by telephone
• Debate issues
• Make plans

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Sample Interpersonal Tasks

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Sample Interpersonal Tasks
Ask your partner questions to find 5 differences
between your pictures. Remember that you cannot
look at each others pictures.

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Presentational Mode
Learners solve problems, create a new product,
use the content for a real world purpose other
than display for the teacher or
classroom. Learners have time to rehearse,
revise, rewrite, consult sources, or otherwise
prepare ahead of time.
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Presentational Mode

• Demonstrate how to prepare a recipe
• Create a guide or school/town for an exchange
  student
• Write a letter of introduction to a school in
  the target country
• Develop a web page (mock facebook or my space
  page)
• Design an advertisement or classified ad
• Write a new beginning or ending of story, song
• Solve a problem
• Take part in a TV or radio spot
• Design a survey and present findings
• Create a Public Service Announcement
• Write Poem, Song, Rap
• Design a Storyboard

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Presentational Mode
You are a travel agent with clients who have
different interests and need. Create an itinerary
suited for each group, keeping in mind the
possible interests and needs of the client.
1. A family of 5 with young children. 2. A
businessperson who is a history buff. 3. Three
college students with a limited budget. 4.
Grandparents who love small towns, local crafts,
and music.
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Sample Presentational Task

• 3-2-1
• -Identify 3 characteristics of Formative
  Assessment that differs from Summative.
• -List 2 important ideas about Formative
  Assessment that you will share with colleagues
• -Provide one good reason why teachers should
  alter their classroom practice to include
  formative tasks.

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Checking for Understanding
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Checking for Understanding
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More effort has to be spent in framing questions
that are worth asking that is, questions that
explore issues that are critical to the
development of student understanding. (Black et
al., 2003)
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Blooms Taxonomy
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Questions (Tuffin, 2003)

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Closure
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What are four things that really squared in your
head today? 1. 2. 3. 4.
Name one question that you have going around in
your head from what you learned today. Q
What are three things you want to remember from
the lesson/presentation today? 1. 2. 3.
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• Priscilla Russel
• Supervisor of World Languages, ESL, and Bilingual
  Education
• Princeton Regional School District
• Priscilla_russel_at_monet.prs.k12.nj.us
• Rosanne Zeppieri
• Supervisor of World Languages K-8
• West Windsor-Plainsboro Regional School District
• Rosanne.zeppieri_at_ww-p.org