Formative AssessmentsMonday 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.