Assessment for Fun and Learning

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Assessment for Fun and Learning

• San Antonio Science and Mathematics Saturday
• October 7
• Virginia Malone

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Learning That SticksTakes Time.

• There Are No Short Cuts.
• by Rafe Esquith

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What Goes On In Class

• Must match the objectives
• May cover more than one objective
• May match objectives from a lower grade levels
• May not be assessable.

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Know Where You Want Them To Go

• Standards, Benchmarks, Objectives
• analyze and describe adaptive characteristics
  that result in an organisms unique niche in an
  ecosystem
• identify the external characteristics of
  different kinds of plants and animals that allow
  their needs to be met

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Use Different Routes to Get There.

• Multiple perspectives of the same thing.
• Multiple student products.

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CREATE AN EMPLOYMENT DISPLAY AD
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• O sibili, se emgo,
• Fortibuses en ero.
• Nobili demis trux.
• Si watis enum,
• Cowsendux

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• People only see what they are prepared to see.
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• Ralph Waldo Emerson. 1863

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Let them see where you want them to
go.Identifying Commonalities

• A border
• Catchy Title
• Requirements of Job
• Place to send resume
• EOC
• Something cool about the job (opportunity)

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Give Some Examples

• These are across disciplines

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Be a Part of the Fastest Growing Institute in the
South

• EXCEPTIONALLY CREATIVE PERSON
• FOR RESEARCH AND TEACHING POSITION
• Seeking a talented responsible professional to
  help develop better agriculture techniques. Must
  be able to find new uses for easily grown crops
  that will enhance the soil rather than deplete
  it. Must be able to work long hours.
  Experience in gardens is helpful. Must be an
  effective communicator, motivate, and teacher.
• This is an excellent opportunity for an
  ambitious individual looking for a lifetime
  career position. Salary commensurate with
  experience. Masters degree in agriculture
  required with extensive course work in chemistry.
• Send resume Attn Booker T. Washington
• Tuskegee Institute,
• Tuskegee, Alabama
• Tuskegee Institute
• An Institute with a Vision of Education

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Tips for Getting Ready

• 1. Make a list
• concepts, vocabulary words from unit.
• 2. Sketch out some ideas.
• Cant draw? Clip art. Few have art anyway
• Not creative? Work with a fellow teacher.
• 3. Clearly define the product students will make.

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Display Ad Assignment

• Your Final ProductA display ad for something we
  have studied in this unit. Your ad may be
  displayed at the DQ.
• Constraints
• Reasonably only one person, place, or thing
  should be able to answer the ad. Clear and
  accurate information in ad. An attached
  bibliography. All of the identified required
  components of a display ad.

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Reflections

• What Did You Do to Make This Product?
• What did we do first?

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• I hear, I forget.
• I see, I question.
• I do, I learn.
• I teach, I understand.
• I reflect, I improve.
• Adapted from
  Chinese Proverb
• by Virginia Malone

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Score

• Accuracy
• Thoroughness
• Clarity
• Reasonableness

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Show and Score

• Saves Time
• Provides Communication Practice
• Values Student Products
• Provides Review for Others
• Looks at Concepts from Multiple Perspectives

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Practical Exam

• Use Employment Display Ads

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Celebrate Student Success with Student Products

• Newspapers, Radio, TV
• E-mail
• Web sites
• DQ, Super S, HEB
• Back to school nights
• PTO newsletters

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Steps to Activity

• 1 Review employment display ads to find common
  components
• 2 Compile a master list of common components.
• 3 Review description of product.
• 4 Show examples.
• 5 Provide research and development time.
• 6 Make the assignment.
• 7 Provide an audience.
• 8 Score.

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The Blind Men and the Elephant

• And so those men of Indostan
• Disputed loud and long
• Each in his own opinion
• Exceedingly stiff and strong
• Though each was partly in the right
• And all of them were wrong.
• John Godfrey Saxe (1816 - 1887)
• Use multiple means of assessment.

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A Test A Day

• Keeps Students Away.

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Every test can be improved.
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Every Student Can Learn.
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Every Teacher Can Improve.
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Every school can become a center of excellence.
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The Road to Success Is Always Under
Construction.
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Electronic Version

• wetheteachers.com
• Click on Lessons and Files. Scroll down to
  cabinets. Click on Lesson plans. Scroll down to
  Other. Open or download Fun with Assessment.
• OR
• Click on Lessons and Files. Scroll down to
  cabinets. Click on Powerpoint. Scroll down to
  Other. Open or download Advertisement.