Be Informed!

1. http://todaysmeet.com/BeInformed Be Informed! Christine Lucas, Stephanie Williams Fort Bend ISD November 2, 2013

2. Sticky Bar Self-Assessment Use sticky notes to indicate the formative assessments that you have used within your own classroom.

3. Be Informed!

4. Key Features • Links goal-oriented assessment and instruction • Promotes learning as well as informs instruction • Used continuously before and throughout instruction • Encourages students to become more aware of their own learning (metacognition) and the ideas of others

5. Formative Assessment • Discuss: Formative Assessment • Real Time Practice • Classroom Reflections • Data Decisions

6. FA: Four Corners • Post the answers to a question in the four corners of a room. • Ask participants to go to the corner with their answer. • Allow time for discussion at the corner. • Allow time for explanation of the correct answer.

7. Let’s Practice

8. My Classroom Reflection • Grade Level Content • Key Understanding • Structures

9. FA: Line Ups • Each student in the group or class gets one card. • Students solve the problem then line up in order from greatest answer to least answer. • Teacher verifies the order and provides feedback. • Once the order is correct, students discuss the process they used to solve the problems.

10. Let’s Practice • Middle School Example • High School Example

11. My Classroom Reflection • Grade Level Content • Key Understanding • Structures

12. FA: Extended Response Cards Front of Card Back of Card Mean Mean Median Median Mode Mode

13. Mean, Median or Mode The number of customers each day at Joe’s Deli was 62, 50, 63, 58, 61, 122 and 70. Which measure of central tendency best describes this data?

14. Mean, Median or Mode Sally’s scores in math are 78, 80, 85, 80, and 75. She receives a 96 on a test. Which measure of central tendency will be most affected by the new score?

15. Mean, Median or Mode The students in one middle school homeroom received the following scores on their achievement test: 32, 87, 89, 96, 96, 85, 79, 96, 90, 85, 78, 72, 96, 99, 91, 82, 77, 82, and 81. Which measure of central tendency would make the scores appear the highest?

16. Extended Response Cards Parent Graphs Inverse, Converse, Contrapositive Equation, expression, inequality Always, Sometimes, Never Area, perimeter, volume Inequality symbols

17. My Classroom Reflection • Grade Level Content • Key Understanding • Structures

18. FA: A and D Statements • Provide students with a set of statements about content that you are teaching. • Ask students to agree or disagree with each statement. • Allow for time to process why students agree or disagree. • Teach the lesson, then allow time to return to the agree/disagree statements. (Can be used to start a unit as well)

19. Let’s Practice

20. My Classroom Reflection • Grade Level Content • Key Understanding • Structures

21. FA: Fold and Pass Provide students with a question or prompt Ask them to answer it without putting their name on the paper. When complete, students fold their paper and pass it 3-5 times around the room. Teacher leads the class through a processing activity, students answer based on the paper they received.

22. Let’s Practice

23. My Classroom Reflection • Grade Level Content • Key Understanding • Structures

24. FA: Strategy Harvest • Provide students with a problem to solve. • Then provide students with the strategy harvest. • Ask them to identify their strategy and another one that makes sense. Or • Ask students to identify someone who used a different strategy and explain their process.

25. Let’s Practice

26. My Classroom Reflection • Grade Level Content • Key Understanding • Structures

27. FA: Concept Cartoons • Use Cartoon Characters to comment about a mathematical idea. • One idea is mathematically correct while the other two are common misconceptions. • Ask students to select the character that they most agree with and write a explanation of why. • Structure the processing of the ideas to reveal student thinking.

28. Let’s Practice

29. My Classroom Reflection • Grade Level Content • Key Understanding • Structures

30. FA: Fist to 5 & Give me 5 Provide a prompt or question. Fist to 5 • Ask students on a scale of 1-5, show me your understanding. Give me 5 • Ask students to give me five….answers to the open ended prompt

31. Let’s Practice • Fist to Five Identify a point on this line: • Give me Five Points on the line above

32. My Classroom Reflection • Grade Level Content • Key Understanding • Structures

33. FA: Odd One Out • Select items that lend themselves to grouping • One item should be able to be ruled out and justified as the “odd one out”

34. Let’s Practice

35. My Classroom Reflection • Grade Level Content • Key Understanding • Structures

36. Data Decisions: 4 ways to go 1) Need to ask more questions. • 2)Need to provide additional instruction. Asking more isn’t going to help. • 3)Provide feedback (students have enough understanding that feedback will help.) • 4)Move on – they have it!

37. Back to Mean, Median, Mode

38. Back to Mean, Median, Mode

39. Back to Mean, Median, Mode

40. Door Prizes

41. Feedback & Follow Up Stephanie Williams Secondary Math Coordinator Fort Bend ISD 281-634-1253 stephanie.williams@fortbendisd.com Christine Lucas Secondary Math Helping Teacher Fort Bend ISD 281-634-6855 christine.lucas@fortbendisd.com

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