Formative Plans
- Understand how the DLE supports the core instructional process of assessment, i.e.,
- Where to find the standards of what students should know and be able to do (what we’re measuring)
- How to identify stimulus artifact that requires students to ask questions about the topic area (e.g., source artifact in history or picture of results of a science experiment)
- How to get students to ask questions from some stimulus (a warm-up for introducing the knowledge)
- How to facilitate additional questions to probe student knowledge and introduce knowledge
- Where to find/share existing assessments/rubrics, including across grades (e.g., course pre-reqs)
- Where to find consolidate list of log-ins and procedures for online assessments
- Digital options to create assessments
- Digital tools to access/analyze assessment reports
- Where to find the standards of what students should know and be able to do (what we’re measuring)
- Review the importance of formative assessment and learn how to use at least one digital formative assessment tool
- Understand how formative assessments may be used to drive and personalize instruction, and how they align to summative and benchmarks assessments (Nearpod, Socrative, AP? End-of-Course).
- Understand how to formatively assess students using learning strategies (e.g., Making Thinking Visible).
- Understand that using these tools provides students with quality, timely and academically-constructed feedback.
- Understand how to use digital toolbox power apps to conduct formative assessments that are general (e.g., Schoology, Educreation) and/or subject-specific (e.g., IXL, Newsela, RAZ-Kids)
- Understand how formative assessments may be used to drive and personalize instruction, and how they align to summative and benchmarks assessments (Nearpod, Socrative, AP? End-of-Course).
- Have planed to create one assessment or rubric linked to standards for one specific curricular unit
Possible Agenda for the Day (ERD Oct 21)
1:30 - 2:00 Introduction - formative assessment - demo a couple tools
2:00 - 3:00 Formative Assessment Sandboxes:
Each presentation will introduce a formative assessment tool and discuss these three essential questions in the context of a specific unit showing student work.
- How can formative assessments provide information to help you make course corrections in your classroom?
- Where can this digital application reveal student thinking in new ways
- e.g., immediate polling of the whole class, Word Cloud analysis of student highlighting of a document, student tutorials, students write the day’s notes, or anonymous input of questions around a primary source to generate student engagement?
- What is the easiest way to share common assessments and capture student assessment data that reduces teacher workload?
3:00 - 3:10 BREAK and travel time back to Dept
3:10 - 3:25 Go back to departmental team and report out:
- What did you learn from your sandbox session on formative assessment?
- Which formative assessment tool will you try in the classroom before 11/3?
- Can you imagine tapping a couple of students in a class to help set up this formative assessment?
- What are our next steps as a grade/subject area group/team, for streamlining/sharing assessments?
3:25 - 3:30 ProTraxx Evaluation