Charlene Gleaton

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Planning and Scheduling for Assessment Driven
Flexible Grouping
November 19, 2007

• Presented by
• Charlene Gleaton
• Edisto Primary School
• Orangeburg Consolidated School District Four

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Assessment should always have more to do with
helping students grow than with cataloging
their mistakes. -
Carol Tomlinson
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On-going AssessmentA Diagnostic Continuum
Preassessment (Finding Out)
Formative Assessment (Keeping Track Checking
-up)
Summative Assessment (Making sure)
A process of accumulating information about a
students progress to help make instructional
decisions that will improve his/her
understandings and achievement levels.
A means to determine a students mastery
and understanding of information, skills,
concepts, or processes.
Any method, strategy or process used to determine
a students current level of readiness or
interest in order to plan for appropriate
instruction.
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Data Sources and Timelines

• Choose a few useful assessments and implement
  them throughout the school
• Use a common spreadsheet to record data
• Plan for assessments at regular intervals
• Use assessment results to change groupings
  (emphasize that groups can change more frequently
  based on performance)

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Forming the Flexible Groups

• Establish various groups for various needs
• Ensure that groups change quarterly at a minimum
• Establish the purpose of the grouping
• - common instruction
• - cooperative learning (peer assistance)

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Scheduling the Groups

• You dont have to meet with every group every
  day
• You should meet with your struggling readers
  daily
• Center activity check sheets will keep students
  on task and remove the rigidity of rotating
  groups

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Resources to Help Teachers

• Guided planning (TIMETIMETIME)
• Teacher coaches modeling in the classrooms
  (developing a common language)
• Individual classroom and school-wide shared
  materials (to accommodate various levels of
  understanding)

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Reading Comprehension and Social Studies

• Leveled classroom libraries (fiction and
  nonfiction)
• A large collection of leveled readers sets and
  audio books available for teacher check out
• Large Ziploc or canvas bags for bags-of-books
• Collection of teacher created or teacher
  discovered graphic organizers and online resources

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Word Study

• White boards with markers
• Index cards
• Word study board games (for check out)
• Text including specified skill
• Highlighters or highlighting tape

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Writing and Conventions

• Writers composition notebooks
• Large spiral bound flip charts
• Sets of Author Studies to model quality writing
• Student created word banks and thesauruses
• Collection of teacher created or teacher
  discovered graphic organizers and online resources

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Math and Science

• Math and science journals
• Multiple sets of classroom manipulatives
• Plastic shoe boxes for each groups Math Tool
  Box
• Science kits (either prepackaged or district
  assembled)
• Collection of teacher created or teacher
  discovered math or science center activities and
  online resources

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Contact Information

• Charlene Gleaton
• Gleatonc_at_Orangeburg4.com