Student Centered Assessment
A Classroom Look at Growth
The Role of Assessment in a Community
Support
Accountability
Focus
Shared Vision
Stop and Jot What is your vision for your writers?
Or…
What is your vision for your writers’ identities?
Individual identities? Their collective identity as a community?
Turn and Talk
Please share one thought with a partner.
Then share the “why” behind your thought.
Tools to Promote Instructional Change
“What we do has little impact unless we are cognizant of how to do those things in the most effective ways and for legitimate purposes.”
- Good to Great Teaching
by Mary Howard, 2012
Primary Agent of Assessment
Peter Johnston’s new book:
RTI in Literacy: Responsive and Comprehensive
“Regardless of grade,
students’ development looks different – so,
too, must literacy instruction.”
Growth Mindset & Skill Progressions Teaching students to measure their work
against a progression of skills requires:
A vision for the writing work
An expectation that all writers are capable of sharing that vision, as partners in the process
Peter Elbow’s Evolution as a Writer Started with a fixed mindset
Then… “I couldn’t write when I tried to write
everything right. And I could write when I let myself write things wrong.”
Teachers of writers need…
Learning progressions across units of study
Tools that can be used for multiple purposes
Processes for looking at writing with colleagues
Teachers of writers need…
Exemplars of work at all stages
Lesson design with structures for differentiation
Flexibility to USE data to adjust instruction
Where’s the time??
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What Makes a Difference?
John Hattie’s Meta-Analysis Learning goals Emphasize meta-cognitive strategies Multiple exposures / opportunities to practice over several days Feedback Formative evaluation
Lesson StructureModel/ Demonstrate
Direct Instruction
Active Engagement
All Students - try itTeacher – observes, gives feedback
Independent Practice
Students – enactTeacher – confers, observes, assess,
reflects, adjusts
ShareStudents & Teacher – confer, assess,
reflect, adjust
Feedback / Conference
Research – What are you working on today?
Compliment – I see you tried . . .
Decide What to Teach – What is the student
doing/ just about to do?
Teach – Demonstrate/ Model/ Exemplar
Link – Whenever you’re writing . . .
Where’s the time??
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Turn & Talk
What are you thinking about now?
“Audience Participation” time! Please decide one person per table with a
laptop or tablet to be your spokesperson on this site:
http://todaysmeet.com/maisa
If you have questions for the teachers on the panel, please jot and pass to your spokesperson for submission to the site.
Thank you, Panelists! Michelle Kemp, 12th Grade
Muskegon Public Schools
Megan Perreault, Middle School Special Education and Literacy
Orchard View Public Schools
Amy Miller, 5th GradeGrand Haven Public Schools
Terri Fortmeyer, 3rd GradeNorth Muskegon Public Schools
LEARNING TARGETS are… the day-to-day learning that we plan for our students
posted in the classroom in understandable language assessable
Types of Learning Targets
Knowledge Targets Reasoning Targets Skill Targets Product Targets Disposition Targets
Megan’s Student-Facing RubricLevel 1 Level 2 Level 3
Grouped information into sections
Each section contained information that was mostly about the same thing
Organized into a sequence of separate sections
Wrote each section according to an organizational plan
Used subheadings or clear transitions to separate sections
Put sections in an order that emphasizes key points
Used transitions and introductions or topic sentences to highlight main points
Adapted from Writing Pathways by Lucy Calkins and TCRWP Colleagues, 2013
Megan’s “Please Notice” Card
Amy Miller’s Continuum Poster
Summative Assessment
Summative Assessment
Assessment in Writing is coming into its own…
NWP
TCRWP
FAME
Quality Assessment Practices
We WILL grow together… You will grow your practices as you assess for
learning.
Our students will grow as writers.
This is just the beginning. We will all share our findings as a part of this network.
Thank you for doing that today, panelists!