Good Morning and Welcome

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Good Morning and Welcome!

• Please take a copy of the handouts on the table
  and help yourself to coffee.

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Collaboration

• Who teachers are to one another is as important
  as who they are to their students. In
  high-performing and improving schools in numerous
  students, collaboration is the norm.

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The CAI Model

• Curriculum, Assessment, and Instruction

Curriculum The What Standards Essential
Questions Learning Targets
Assessment The Progress Deciding what Is best
to measure Student learning in Relation to the
standards
Instruction The methods used To
facilitate Student learning
Student Learning
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Assessment and Student Motivation

• Has a sense of control and choice
• Gets frequent and specific feedback on
  performance
• Encounters tasks that are challenging, but not
  threatening
• Is able to self-assess accurately
• Encounters learning tasks related to everyday life

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Identifying the Standards in Your Course

• What is a Standards-Based Course?
• Standards
• Identify essential state standards
• Chosen standards must be assessed
• Distinguish between multiple standard areas
• Required Standards
• Connections to other courses, vertically and
  horizontally
• Information Technology Literacy Standards (ITLS)

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Writing Learning Targets

• What students should know and be able to do in
  order to meet the standard
• Specific to your course, but not dictating
  instructional strategies
• How many?
• There may be more than one learning target per
  standard
• Occasionally, there are standards that do not
  need a learning target
• Usefor example and such as statements in
  learning targets, as needed

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Testing Your Learning Targets
If students

• Define and provide examples of solids, liquids,
  gases
• Using a variety of substances (e.g. water,
  alcohol, Jello) to demonstrate the capacity of
  each substance to exist as a solid, liquid, or
  gas
• Explain how a substance can exist in different
  statessolid, liquid, or gas)

Insert Target
then they will
Insert Standard
Understand that substances can exist in
different statessolid, liquid, or gas
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What Assessment Types Match Your Learning
Targets?

• Assessment Types
• CRConstructed Response
• SRSelected Response
• PAPerformance Assessment
• OObservation (formal)
• Match the assessment type to the learning target
• Most appropriate types?
• Not appropriate types?

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What Are Essential Questions?

• Essential Questions are those that
• Beg to be answered or debated
• Cause students to think
• Require students to explore or understand course
  content
• Require students to use processing skills
• Require students to learn new information
• Critically analyze and combine new information
  with old
• Cause students to use both skills and content to
  answer the question
• Point toward a Learning Target(s) or Standard(s)

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Writing Essential Questions

• What is a concept?
• Broad and abstract
• Represented by 1 or 2 words
• Universal in application
• Timeless, carries through the ages
• Represented by different examples that share
  common attributes

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Examples

• Formative
• Anecdotal records
• Quizzes
• Essays
• Diagnostic tests
• Lab reports
• Observations
• Journals

• Summative
• Final exams
• State tests
• National tests
• Entrance exams
• Chapter tests
• Projects
• Final copies

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Pre-assessment

• A method, strategy or process
• Determining students current level of readiness
• Prior mastery of knowledge
• Prior mastery of understanding
• Skills
• Interest
• Wanting to know
• Wanting to understand
• Wanting to do more

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PossiblePre-assessments

• Pretest
• Inventory
• Checklist
• Observation
• Self-evaluation
• Questioning
• Interviews

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Ongoing Assessment

• Uncovering student understandings
• Uncovering student misunderstandings
• Strategies for quick assessments

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What do you know about time?
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What do you know about_______________?
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Please draw and write about___________________.
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Exit Card
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3-2-1 Card
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Exit Cards

• Draw the orbit of the earth around the sun.
• Label your drawing
• What causes seasons?

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Knowledge Rating Chart

• I have never heard of this before
• I have heard of this, but not sure how it works
• I know about this and how to use it
• ________Direct object
• ________Indirect object
• ________Adjective

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RAFT

• Assume a ROLE
• Consider an AUDIENCE
• Write in a particular FORMAT
• Examine a TOPIC

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RAFT
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Tiered Assignments

• In a heterogeneous classroom, a teacher uses
  varied levels of activities to ensure that
  students explore ideas at a level that builds on
  their prior knowledge and prompts continued
  growth. Student groups use varied approached to
  explore essential ideas.

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Reflection

• The most important school based intervention
  for students is a challenging educational program
  that provides an optimal academic and social
  match for the students pace, level, and pattern
  on learning.