Please read Chapter Two in the Seven Strategies book and be prepared to discuss by Monday, October, 24th. More details to come ...
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Let’s link our work from chapter one which focuses on formative assessment and chapter two which focuses on learning targets. Bring three learning targets and what you used to formatively assess your students to your team meeting on TUESDAY, NOV. 1st. As a TEAM, discuss the targets. Decide if the targets are clearly defined and student-friendly as they are. Help revise any targets that are not clearly defined and student friendly. Look at the formative assessments used to gauge the student learning of these targets. Evaluate the effectiveness of the assessment to the target ... Are the two congruent? Does the assessment allow for self assessment by the student on their level of achievement toward the target?
INDIVIDUALLY please address the following on the blog using the comments link by WEDNESDAY, NOV. 9th.
As we have learned sharing the learning target with our students is important to our instructional process and to student learning. "Reading the target" at the beginning of the lesson is relatively easy. The harder part is embedding and weaving the target throughout our instruction while also linking it to effective formative assessment. (Assessment which helps the student and the teacher "know" what they " know" and/or what they need to work on). Please share how you do this well and/or what you have learned from our discussions and how you plan to improve in this area.
