RIGOR with NURTURING
Designing Assessment & Instruction to Increase
Achievement with the New Math SOL
Prepared especially for the Secondary Professional Learning
Network of
PULASKI COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS
by Dan Mulligan, Ed. D.
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HUNT for SOLUTIONS
Record your responses on the POST-IT and the back
of the last page…
At Pulaski County Public Schools:
1. The percent of ALL students PASSING the MATH 6 SOL test in 2011.
59
2. The percent of POVERTY students PASSING the MATH 6 SOL test
46
in 2011.
3. The percent of MALE students PASSING on the MATH 8 SOL test in
75
2011.
4. The percent of FEMALE students PASSING the MATH 8 SOL test in
84
2011.
5. The percent of ALL students ADVANCED on the ALGEBRA I SOL
test in 2011.
20
6. The percent of POVERTY students ADVANCED on the ALGEBRA I
SOL test in 2011.
12
7. The percent of ALL students ADVANCED on the ALGEBRA II SOL
16
test in 2011.
8. The percent of POVERTY students ADVANCED on the ALGEBRA II SOL
7
test in 2011.
SOLUTIONS
7,
12,
16,
20,
46,
59,
75,
84
Please bring your handouts with you.
Spotlight Moment
Which particular strategy have you
found most effective this year in
engaging students in
understanding mathematics?
Explain why you think it is so…
Learning By Doing
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When you realize that people learn naturally from the life they
experience every day, it won’t surprise you that the brain is set
up to learn better with active, hands-on endeavors. Many
students request less bookwork and more hands-on activities.
Students are more willing to do bookwork if there is a project or
activity as part of the lesson. Building models and displays,
fieldtrips and fieldwork, hands-on experiments, and craft activities
are all strategies that help students learn.
What is it our students must learn?
a.
b.
c.
d.
e.
f.
g.
http://www.pbs.org/teachers/stem/math/
http://stemcollaborative.org//
https://www.istemnetwork.org/resourc
e/educational/lesson.cfm
Time to head home….
What’s the new
target for this
year?
Algebra I
Algebra II
Please bring your handouts with you.
http://www.nysedregents.org/
HELICOPTER ACTIVITY
Group Task
Select a standard you will be teaching.
Look up the SOL in the Curriculum Framework.
Change the Essential Knowledge and Skills column
to letters.
Create a ‘FAST-FIVE’ assessment that addresses
each EKS. (Note: try to include open-ended items)…
Enjoy working with your team.
Thank you for all you do,
for all the children!
~Dan