New Teacher

OrientationDay 3

Goal

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Toda

y Review Homework Questions about Unit

Planning Delve into Lesson Planning Continue building our

team!

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Feel

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You’

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You’re not alone!

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Balanced Assessment

Practices

WHERE ARE OUR ASSESSMENT PRACTICES NOW?

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List the

assessments on the

sheet provided.

Snowball time!

ASSESSMENT

Think about the assessment practices that you used in your practicum or you plan on incorporating in your classroom.

WHERE ARE OUR ASSESSMENT PRACTICES NOW?

Make a chart and record the categories and the number of items in each category.

Category Tests Quizzes ? ?

Number of Cards in This category 4 2

Using your table group’s results, discuss what assessment in “looks like.”

Whole Group: Dot Summary Table

Assessment StrategiesA balanced assessment plan is essential to gather evidence of the range of learning within our curriculum.

POSSIBLE ASSESSMENT STRATEGIES Observations and Checklists Learning Logs Performance Tasks Projects Portfolios Assignments Selected Response Tests (Multiple Choice, True/False,

Matching) Short Answer Tests Extended Response Tests Written communication Oral communication Visual Communication (Graphics, Electronic Slide

Shows, Demonstrations)

Enduring Understandings about Learner Outcomes

Making learner outcomes visible to students throughout the learning process helps students make connections and be actively involved in their learning.

Teaching from the outcomes and to the outcomes—and aligning instruction and assessment with the outcomes—deepens student learning.

Shar

ing

with

Pa

rent

s 1. Parent Curriculum: Handbooks Summaries Curriculum Express

http://education.alberta.ca/parents/resources/handbook.aspx

2. Make your outcomes visible in your classroom.

3. You can include SFOs or essential questions on the front pages of unit/ course syllabi:a. As checklists for the kidsb. As communication to parents/ students/ yourself as per the goals of the unit of study.

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4. You can use SFOs/essential questions as references on unit tests/ quizzes to guide the students through the exam - each question or set of questions on the exam can be prefaced with the outcomes that have been taught. 

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5. Use SFOs/Essential Questions on exit slips that go home at night.  Use an outcome covered in class, and stated in student friendly language, and have the child communicate with their caregiver about how they have achieved the outcome (or how they are working towards it).

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6. Use SFOs/Essential questions as a peer assessment conversation starter.  For example, each student selects an “I can” statement from a lesson, or a day, and uses this to talk about IF they, and HOW they, have met the outcome.

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7. At the start of a lesson, use a think-pair-share to clarify what the “I can” statement means with a partner and what evidence might look like.Sh

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3 things to keep in mind …

How are you sharing outcomes with students?

How will you share outcomes with paretns?

BREAK

30

Reporting and Grading

Tests/Quizzes Projects(including research)

Daily Work(in-class, homework)

Effort/Participation

o Consider the grading data.

Changes in teaching and learning require changes to our assessment practices.

Com

mun

icat

ion

Take

-Aw

ays

• What does your school report card like?• Percentages? Outcomes-based? Grading

Scale? Met not met?• What evidence do you have to

collect?• When do your report cards go out?

• Do you administrators preview report cards before they go out?

• What are the expectations around parent/teacher interviews?

• How will you communicate with parents & students in between reporting periods?

• How does PowerSchool influence & aide communication to parents?

Jeanne Rasmussen Special G

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Websites of the

Day

Alberta

Assessme

nt Consortia

www.aac.ab.ca

What’s

Available?Elluminate

Moodle

Teacher Websites

Interactive Websites

Student Gmail

Google for Education

Web 2.0 Tools

Skype

Digital Citizenship

Technology in the Classroom

LESSON

PLANNING

Stud

ent

Enga

gem

ent

Don’t forget discussions from Monday (Schletchy)

Many ways to engage students.

Consider: What are students …

Wor

k on

Less

on

Plan

s

Revis

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our

W

edne

sday Debrief Unit PlanningEnergizerTPACKLesson Planning

Clos

ure: MentorshipSummer InstituteInformation about Friday

Exit Slip

Exit Slips

One thing I wishwe could have done..

One thing I

will take away