Assessment and Concepts About Print

January 23, 2012

Announcements

• Criminal Background Check• Go to Gateway in ICampus and print off

the page that shows you have met the CBC requirement

• Tutoring Kit questions or great finds?

• Identify Big Ideas • Discuss Assessment Cycle and Constructive

Assessment• Define Concepts About Print• Identify methods for Assessing Concepts About

Print (CAP)• Discuss the nature of technology in classrooms

today• Discuss Web Literacy

Something to think about…In small groups of 4-5, discuss you’re the readings for

today. In addition to discussing the key ideas on your I read, I thought, consider the following questions in your discussion. We will come back as a large group to discuss you thoughts.What are most salient ideas/ themes? How do these ideas connect to teaching? To

students? How do you see this ideas influencing your

instruction?How is this different from what you know about

“school”/ “doing school”

“Kidwatching”

• Building an insider view of the community• Understanding how lang. & lit. develop• Organizing a rich environment for learning• Interacting with children• Observing and documenting children’s knowledge• Analyzing data• Fostering children’s self-evaluation• Engaging in self-evaluation of teaching• Using evaluation to inform instruction

Observation

• Purposes• Importance for teachers for supporting

children’s literacy development• Kinds– “cold”– “participant”

• Considerations– Permission/Entree– Comfort zone

“Shut up and teach!”

• Teaching as talker (lecturing)

• Assumptions:– Teacher is

knowledgeable one– Learning is a process of

filling students’ minds– Literacy is a thing to be

given to someone

• Teaching as listener/ observer

• Assumptions:– Teacher must learn from and

about students in order to support learning

– Learning must be based on what children already know

– Literacy is a social practice (not a commodity or object)

Big Ideas: Teacher Discourse

• Being a “constructive evaluator”• Assessment as “social interaction”• The “language of assessment”• Trust, power and control• Trajectory- “Where was I?” Where am I

now?” “How did I get there?”• The Implications of teachers’ responses

Building an Insider View: Social Imagination

“The ability to read others”“…. The possibility of understanding our own

and others’ experiences from that many more vantage points”

“Valuing, exploring, and appreciating multiple perspectives in the classroom.”

(Johnston, Knowing Literacy, 199?, Owacki & Goodman, Kidwatching, 2002)

Assessment

Assessment: What do you know about assessment? How is it used? What materials/tools do teachers use to assess students?

• Ideas from Kidwatching– What is Kidwatching?– What can we learn from it?– How does it differ from other types of assessment

you’ve experienced?

Assessment Cycle

Observe and assess Score and

analyze

assessment(s)

Sort and sift data within assessments.

Look for patterns:

OVERALLWrite and prioritize instructional goals

Find instructio

nal

strategies

Write lesson plans

Instruct

Use this to list the assessments that you have learned about and how you might choose to apply them to tutoring with your student. Consider what it is you want to know and the

purpose of the assessment.

What does this assessment designed to do? What information

can you get from it? How does it fit in with other

assessments?

Why give this assessment? (what is the purpose; which of 6 language arts can you gather information about? )

What changes need to be made? (what are the

pros/cons of this assessment?)

What do you still need to know?

Concepts About Print

• Shout Out– What do people need to know and be able to do

in order to access printed texts?

Concepts About Print• What are concepts about print?– Print orientation– Letter identification– High frequency words– Writing Spree– Dictation

• What tools do we have to help us assess a child’s understanding of concepts about print?

Next Time

CW 3,4,5 Bring CBC page Work on your Tutoring Kit

Day 2

• Any great finds?

• Concepts about Print- revisted• Digital Literacies

Let’s Try It- CAP

• Video: Harrison’s VoiceThread oror http://www1.teachertube.com/viewVideo.php?video_id=90244&title=Reading_with_two_children

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1QnXVpylxiYMake a “checklist” of a few things you might expect

to observe regarding print orientation. What do these children know about

print and books?

Ideas for teaching CAP• Class books• Environmental Print• Charts• Shared Reading and Read-alouds

Other ideas from the reading or other classes that you may want to try?

• Divide into groups of 4• Share ideas from Digital Storytelling– Make connections– Ask questions

• Make a list of “Big Ideas” from each reading and discuss how this might impact your work with children?

Big Ideas Chart

• So what does all of this mean for us? • What will this look like when we are working

with our students?

Something to Ponder….

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fnh9q_cQcUE&feature=related

Turn and talk: What does this mean for you as a teacher? Share which tools you are familiar with, which ones you have actually used and what some of your reservations are. Consider some other perspectives. What might other teachers, students, administrators, parents.

Illinois Professional Teaching Standards

#4 Planning for Instruction- The teacher understands instructional planning and designs instruction based upon knowledge of the discipline, students, the community, and curriculum goals.

4E. Understands how to integrate technology into classroom instruction. 4F. Understands how to review and evaluate educational technologies to determine

instructional value. 4G. Understands how to use various technological tools to access and manage

information. 4H. Understands the uses of technology to address student needs. 4N. Incorporates experiences into instructional practices that relate to the students'

current life experiences and to future career and work experiences. 4Q. Uses teaching resources and materials which have been evaluated for accuracy and

usefulness. 4R. Accesses and uses a wide range of information and instructional technologies to

enhance student learning.

Illinois Professional Teaching Standards

#6 Instructional Delivery - The teacher understands and uses a variety of instructional strategies to encourage students’ development of critical thinking, problem solving, and performance skills.

6C. Knows how to enhance learning through the use of a wide variety of materials as well as human and technological resources.

6K. Uses a wide range of instructional technologies to enhance student learning.

6N. Uses technology appropriately to accomplish instructional objectives.

Classrooms and Instruction are changing

The use of Web 2.0 tools affects both the learning and teaching environment.

Literacy instruction is no longer limited to paper and pencil, basals, and books. Today's student is accustomed to being a producer of text, not just a passive consumer.

Students have to "shut down" to come to school Web 2.0 tools provide authentic literacy learning experiences for

students Students can have a world-wide audience Students can collaborate with students from anywhere in the

world Web 2.0 tools are designed to be easy to use, produce, edit,

create, and share Web 2.0 tools are FREE!

Identity and Agency

Turn and talk-

For next time

• Read Miscue Made Easy• PKT pgs 34-49• IR 322-325• Bring a pencil