In your groups, take a look at your texts and decide how you want to structure your learning. You might want to break up the chapters over 10 weeks. I would like for us to plan to finish our study by the end of March. Be aware, this does not mean we will be experts at that point.
Once we finish with our texts we will share some ideas and maybe even share our text with other groups. Our goal will be to develop a personal plan for how you will use PLC's to increase student learning in your classrooms and grade levels/groups.
Our first activity will center around common formative assessments. In your groups, you will develop a common formative assessment around one objective from one goal in the Standard Course of Study. You will, as groups, decide on the goal to be assessed, create the assessment, administer the assessment, analyze the assessment data, then decide how to use the data to inform your instruction. Remember, this is not about grading, it's about improving instruction to meet student learning needs. We may repeat this process several times to improve our understanding of and ability to create common formative assessment. This is becoming one of the expectation for all teachers everywhere (see data regarding NCLB, IDEA, and RTI).
We will spend an extended period of time in this process via the blog on the protected workday on Wednesday, January 21. Teachers from East Bend School will be participating on our blog on that day. Be ready to share, discuss, disagree, and learn.
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I found this website to be interesting. It might be helpful during the formative assessment process.
http://educate.intel.com/en/AssessingProjects/OverviewAndBenefits/
It looked as if the entire link didn't copy correctly...Second try..
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7th math, I like the site. I had to search a little to get to it, the end of the URL is missing. I will try to post it again (http://educate.intel.com/en/AssessingProjects/OverviewAndBenefits/). Jas
The Third Grade Learning Team created a Custom Assessment using ClassScape. The assessment focuses on Objective 3.01 dealing with polygons and angles. Each third grade student will complete the assessment and we will meet back together to discuss the results. :)
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