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A Focus on Informed Assessment Practices

A Focus on Informed Assessment Practices. WebCast # 2 November 21, 2007. Learning Intentions. I can understand and can explain to others the concepts of Assessment for Learning I can identify and give specific examples of the six big Assessment for Learning strategies

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A Focus on Informed Assessment Practices

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  1. A Focus on Informed Assessment Practices WebCast # 2 November 21, 2007

  2. Learning Intentions • I can understand and can explain to others the concepts of Assessment for Learning • I can identify and give specific examples of the six big Assessment for Learning strategies • I can determine a next step

  3. Assessment OF Learning Purpose: reporting out, summative assessment, measuring learning Audience: parents and public Timing: end Form: letter grades, rank order, percentage scores

  4. Assessment FOR Learning Purpose: guide instruction, improve learning Audience: teacher and student Timing: at the beginning, day by day, minute by minute Form: descriptive feedback

  5. The Six Big AFL Strategies • Intentions • Criteria • Descriptive feedback • Questions • Self and peer assessment • Ownership

  6. English 12 Krista Ediger and Joanne Panas Richmond SD# 38

  7. Enduring Understanding • Students will engage with and respond to poetry and ideas, and interact with others around those ideas orally and in writing

  8. Small Group Discussions • Discuss rubric • Fishbowl • Poetry circles • Self-assess • Teacher observation and feedback • (Written analytical response)

  9. Advise to the Young • Read the poem “Advise to the Young” by Miriam Waddington • Jot notes on the poem • Discuss in groups of 4 or 5 how students might indicate understanding • Discuss poem in groups of 4 or 5

  10. The Six Big AFL Strategies How does this process address the Six Big AFL Strategies? • Intentions • Criteria • Descriptive feedback • Questions • Self and peer assessment • Ownership

  11. Communications 12 Tracey Sullivan Richmond SD# 38

  12. Learning Intentions • I can choose a relevant issue on which to build a social commentary • I can create and present a digital social commentary with a partner

  13. “Sound-Off!” Literacy and Technology Mobile Lab Project PROPOSAL Student Names: Digital Story Topic: What is the purpose of your digital story? Who would be the intended audience? Where would you take the pictures?

  14. PROPOSAL Does your group have access to digital cameras (other then the school cameras)? Do you plan to use any video clips? Do you have access to a video camera? Do you know how to use this technology?

  15. PROPOSAL Provide a brief outline of the intended digital story (use point form): What would be the intended length of the final video? Other information:

  16. 2 Rubrics • Process: • Use of time • Teamwork • Metacognitions • Feedback • Storyboards • Editing

  17. Feedback

  18. 2 Rubrics • Product • Soundtrack • Message and Audience • Images • Narration • Text

  19. IMAGES

  20. Conferences • Self assessments • Peer assessments • Reflective write

  21. Anorexia By Rowena and Cherelle

  22. The Six Big AFL Strategies How does this process address the Six Big AFL Strategies? • Intentions • Criteria • Descriptive feedback • Questions • Self and peer assessment • Ownership

  23. Standard Reading Assessment – Grade 6 • Common passage • Oral reading sample and complement • Common response prompt

  24. Standard Reading Assessment – Grade 6 • Read “Hot Air to Spare” • Using your ideas, images and feelings, show me that you understand

  25. A Teaching Plan • Code • Highlight words and phrases • Look for class and small group patterns • Plan, using the Performance Standards • Share your plan

  26. A Learning Plan • Choose 3 to 4 samples • Examine with your students • Create a list of ‘what works’ • Practice response with ‘what works’ in mind

  27. What works….. • Review the last two examples • Reflect on ‘what works’ • Chart your thinking

  28. The Six Big AFL Strategies How does this process address the Six Big AFL Strategies? • Intentions • Criteria • Descriptive feedback • Questions • Self and peer assessment • Ownership

  29. The Context: Grade 3 Writing Demonstration in Campbell River • Learning Intention: • I can write and describe a small event from my morning

  30. Grade 3 Writing Demonstration • Choose a topic • Write in front of the students • Students describe ‘what works’ in your writing • Students choose a ‘morning’ topic

  31. Grade 3 Writing Demonstration • Students write • Students self-assess • Students meet with peers to share and provide feedback

  32. Notices All alone, I stepped into my car. With my map in hand, I began to drive. At the lights I turned left, then the map said to turn right. “Oh, no!” The sign said, “Road closed”. “Help,” I thought. “What am I going to do?”

  33. Notices… Criteria • Mystery • Opening • Detailed • Sounds like you (Voice)

  34. The Six Big AFL Strategies How does this process address the Six Big AFL Strategies? • Intentions • Criteria • Descriptive feedback • Questions • Self and peer assessment • Ownership

  35. Committing to Action • Between now and January 16 • With a learning partner, complete your personal action plan to apply a new assessment FOR learning strategy

  36. AFL WebCasting—See you next time • January 16, 2008 3:30 – 6:00 • February 13, 2008 8:45 – 12:00 • April 16, 2008 3:30 – 6:00 • May 7, 2008 3:30 – 6:00

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