Learning Targets and Formative Assessments

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LEARNING TARGETS AND FORMATIVE ASSESSMENTS KENTON COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT 2012 PGA AUGUST 6, 2012 CAROL MUZNY, PRESENTER [email protected]

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Learning Targets

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Learning Targets

“If you don’t know where you’re going, any road will get you there.”

--Lewis Carroll

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Characteristics of Student-Friendly Learning Targets

• Learning/achievement targets, not activities• Written in “I will” or “I can” format• Written in simple and age-appropriate language will

make sense to your students • Free of technical jargon- i.e. concepts that may be

unfamiliar to students are explained in familiar terms

• Specific enough that students can tell what they’re trying to achieve and when they’ve achieved it

Example: “I can write a personal narrative. This means I will write a true story about an experience from my life.”

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What Do Kids Have to Say?

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Learning Targets

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Your Turn!1. Effective or Ineffective Targets?

2. Let’s Practice!

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Expectations for Using Learning Targets

• Kenton County School District Protocol for using Learner Targets

• Monitoring Learning Targets

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Learning Targets

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Formative Assessment: Whip it!

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Formative Assessments

If we have a balance of formative and summative assessment, aligned with effective learning targets, students will show growth in their learning.

Making the Connection

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Formative Assessments

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Formative Assessments

KRS 158.6453 defines formative assessment as a process used by teachers and students during instruction to adjust ongoing teaching and learning to improve students’ achievement of intended instructional outcomes. Formative assessments may include the use of commercial assessments, classroom observations, teacher-designed classroom tests and assessments, and other processes and assignments to gain information about individual student learning.

Besides Best Practice, Formative Assessments are The Law!

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Formative Assessments

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WHY FORMATIVE ASSESSMENTS?

An opportunity to peek inside learners’ heads while they are in the process of learning.

A chance to provide students with time to reflect about their learning

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Formative Assessments

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Formative Assessment

Summative Assessment

Reason for assessing

• To improve learning

• To increase achievement

• To document mastery

• To measure achievement status

How the results are used

• To inform teachers about students.

• To inform students about themselves

• To inform teachers about instruction

• To inform others about students

• To inform others about instruction

Formative? Summative?

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Formative Assessments

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Formative? Summative?

“When the cook tastes the soup, that’s formative assessment; when the

customer tastes the soup, that’s summative

assessment.”

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Formative Assessments

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When are Formative Assessments Used?• Once or twice during a class period • Beginning (anticipation guide)• Midway (to check on learning)• End of lesson (exit slip)

• At the end of their focus time (age + 2 minutes).

• Any time you sense uncertainty, confusion, or passivity.

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Formative Assessments

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Set Target Instructional Goals

Instruction focused on Targeted Goals

Measurement of Targeted Goals

Feedback to Teacher and Students

WIDA Focus on Formative Assessment | Wisconsin Center for Education Research | University of Wisconsin-Madison | www.wida.us

Formative Assessments

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Formative Assessments

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What are some examples of Formative Assessments?

Classroom discussions Student-teacher

conferences Exit Slips Daily Review Questions Flashbacks Goal setting

Prove-It! Journals or logs Quick Write Think- Pair- Share Whiteboards Fist of Five Thumbs Up/ Thumbs

Down

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Formative Assessments

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Seven Strategies for Assessment for Learning

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Formative Assessments

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Resources for Formative Assessments