Courage
Quick write
Write about a time you were proud of
yourself.
Personal or Professional
Quick write
Write about a time when a student of yours
was proud of themselves.
Comfort
Risk
Danger
What experiences gave me courage?
These professionals give me courage!
Courage from my colleagues and friends
Principals
Curriculum directors
Literacy coaches
Content friends
Team members
Department friends
Husband
Daughters
Best friends
Sister
Who helps you find
courage when it
comes to taking risks?
Assessment that
informs instruction
Define assessment
Strategy: Collaborative definitions
1. Write words or phrases that help you define
assessment.
2. Share out your work with your neighbors
3. As a group, determine what words/phrases
best define assessment.
4. Create one definition for your group
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“Students should receive a steady stream of
feedback, much in the way that students in music
and sports receive from their coaches feedback
that is designed not merely to evaluate their
performance but to improve it.” Doug Reeves
Assessments
FOR Learning
OF Learning
▸ Can see/hear
▸ Informs your practice
▸ Gives feedback to
students
▸ Can use info
immediately
▸ Have to work hard to
read
▸ Snapshot of learner
▸ Hard to target specific
needs
▸ Not immediate
Qualities of formative assessments
▸ Along-the-way, everyday instructional
practice
▸ Daily practice toward a product
▸ Immediate feedback for the teacher and
learner
▸ Informs the teacher and the learner so
instruction and practice can be adjusted
▸ Focuses on the task; geared toward
understanding
▸ Allows assessor to get and give immediate
feedback to improve student achievement
(Tovani, 2011)
Formative Assessment process
1. Clarify intended learning
2. Elicit evidence
3. Interpret evidence
4. Act on evidence
Possible Methods for recording and
organizing evidence
Teacher
-squares
-post it notes
-labels
-page per student
-excel
-evernote
-google form
-piles
Student
-notebooks (reader’s,
writer’s, scientist,
historian)
-target
-goal setting
-self-assessment
-checklists
No matter what. You have to find what works for you.
Simple. Accessible. Meaningful
Smart is not something you
are. It is something you get.
~Carol Dweck
A safe environment for assessment
Assessment
in a workshop setting
How does formative assessment work in
this model?
Assessment within/during/after
focus Lesson/Mini lesson
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Hand signals 1-5 rating
4 corners
Entrance tickets
3 minute pause
Left elbow partner
Observation (anecdotal records,etc)
Entry ticket
Left elbow partner
HOw does formative assessment look in
this model?
Assessment in guided instruction
-discussion
-journal entry
-write aloud
-double entry journals
-fact storming
video
HOw does formative assessment look in
this model?
Assessment in collaborative practice
-discussion groups
-written conversations
-3, 2, 1
-3 minute pause
-carousel brainstorming
Strategy: Text annotation as a group and 3,2, 1
-each person determine
a color pen/pencil to
annotate/code the text
-3, 2, 1
3 facts
2 questions
1 personal connection
HOw does formative assessment look in
this model?
Assessment in independent work
-Conferences
-Journals/Notebooks - scientist, reading,
historian
-Annotations
-Target related activities
-Analogy prompt
-One word summary
One sentence summary
-Write a one sentence summary of the
article.
-Share your sentence with your neighbors
-Determine whose sentence best represents
the main idea of the article.
video
What is still
muddy for
you?
List of formative assessments strategies,
definitions, and examples (nau.edu)
http://nau.edu/uploadedFiles/Academic/CAL/History/HistorySocial_Studies_Education/Formative%20Assessment%20Strategies%20Definitions%
20Examples.pdf
Exit Ticket
Tovani/Bennett, 2014
Formative assessment Strategies
used today
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Quick write
Collaborate definitions
Turn and talk
+/Left elbow partner
Text annotation in a group
3, 2, 1
Muddiest point
Exit ticket
One Sentence summary
Have a great day!