Is a letter grade “feedback”? Explain yourself!

Time for reflection: 5 minutes

Megan & Danielle—need to set up? Some work to return: your quizzes &

AILY LP’s

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Bellwork (10 min) Student Presentations (20 min) Quiz (10 min) Finish Planning (10 min) Assessment Discussion (60 min) SIOP Chapter 4 (20 min) UbD (5 min) Reading Presentation (20 min) Reading Activity (40 min) Workshop Time (60 min) “Talk-Back” (5 min)

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“Beauty Lessons”--Megan “Catch the Moon”—Danielle

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Check your email! Email me when you’re done! Use your books if you so desire! Time: 10 minutes! LET’S NOT OBSESS,

PEOPLE!!

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Start Time: 10:34 End Time: 10:45

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BASIC VERSION Initiation Content/Lesson/Activities Closure

ALTERNATE VERSION / WORKSHOP MODEL Mini-Lessons Conferences

How do you know how long things will take? Do you have a timer?! Hint: Always give students LESS time, then you can look

like a “nice guy” when you give them a few more minutes

How much can you “cover”? How long are your periods? What if…?

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MM “…Everything has the potential to be assessed. Every action, decision, and assignment in a classroom can be assessed to gain a better understanding of what is being relayed and retained”

LS “One professor that I had for Biology would let us write down a sentence or two next to the multiple choice questions that we were unsure about to explain why we chose the answer that we chose. She would give partial credit …”

CT “Assessment is not for weeding out, it's for checking to make sure the teacher has done their job.”

DR “regular assessments that are graded simply on the complete/not complete scale.” “… having students write their own test questions and using some of them is a great idea.”

KM “…all assessments should clearly relate back to the overall objective of purpose of the unit.”

DC “…[multiple choice questions] don’t require deep cognitive thinking for the most part, so it is more a memorization of facts.”

AT: “Giving students options in their assignments or assessments makes them feel like they have a say in their learning (and assessment) and in turn makes them feel less stressed and nervous about getting one and only correct answer on an exam.”

MZ: “Make sure that assessments are consistent, relevant, and fair. How many times have we all been given tests on material that was never covered in class? I feel like this is a betrayal of your students. “

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Check mark next to those items you’ve seen teachers DO in your past experiences

Unhappy face (or ouch!) next to those items with which you disagree

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Ideas & Values: Science, Revolution, Experience, Logic, Quality, Quantity

Content:Excerpt from A Repair Kit for Grading: 15 Fixes for

Broken Grades by Ken O’Connor23 year teaching (geography) career in Canada and

Australia Independent consultant from 1996-present Involved in the ASCD UbD cadre Ideas have been adopted by my school… have

caused a great deal of change regarding how we measure and report grades

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Round

Robin

Opening

Question

Core Question

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Closing

What kinds of assessments might we utilize in our classrooms?

Who makes the assessments? When are the assessments made?

How do we assess? (could be covered by first question…)

Who does the assessing? When?

What’s a rubric? When do we use a rubric? When DON’T we use a

rubric? How do standards (CCSS)

fit in to assessments?

Pairs: Mark & Danielle Katie & Dana Lucille & Allie Cody & Megan

Task: Consider the pack o’assessments

that I’ve compiled for your evaluative pleasure

Answer the questions (on half-sheet) together in your notes

Review your notes, and create a “found poem” from your notes, using somewhere in the arena of 30-60 words

Time: 15 minutes to prepare

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Feature 10: Speech Appropriate for Students’ Proficiency LevelsHow aware are you of the words that you use? Depending on your current situation, how does your

verbal communication modulate?How can you assure that you are communicating to

your students at a level that is appropriate and understandable for them?

Feature 11: Clear Explanation of Academic Tasks

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Feature 12: Use a Variety of Techniques to Make Content Concepts ClearGestures, body language, pictures, objectsProvide a modelPreview material (think: content-specific!)Allow alternative forms for expressing understandingMultimedia & other technologyRepeated exposures to words, concepts, skillsNontraditional text options (video, audio)SUCCINCTGraphic organizers

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Have you been in a situation where you were not an “insider,” and therefore you didn’t understand what was being said? How might this inform your teaching practices?

Consider the relationship between discipline problems and students who are confused about what they’re supposed to be doing.

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Some extra cool materials…Templates for HS & Elementary Excerpt from the UbD “Bible”:

Understanding by Design by Grant Wiggins & Jay McTighe Please scan it for Session 5’s class…

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Reflection Definition of Reading Reader Response Theory Reading Discovery Self-Directed

Activities Closure

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(From Burke p. 31) Write a list of the different literacies you

use within the course of an average day?

Where/How did you learn these skills? Share your thoughts with a friend… What does this activity reveal to us

about our students? How might the literacy list differ for your students?

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Decoding & Comprehension Types of readers Readers’ self-confidence Range of Texts—mark p. 43!

(Use ‘em in planning units!) Affective Responses

Strategies to Assist LITERAL act of Reading P. 34, pp. 98-108 MARK ‘EM! Pre-Reading, During

Reading, Post-Reading Considerations

When Kids Can’t Read by Kylene Beers

7 Habits of Proficient Readers from Mosaic of Thought

Literary AnalysisNew CriticismReader-

ResponseStructuralismDeconstructionPsychoanalyticFeminismMarxismNew Historicism

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http://prezi.com/dp6u3kecgkcc/7-habits/

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A “mutually shaping” exchange between reader and text

Both text and reader are changed as a result of the reading

“Transactional theory proposes that the relationship between reader and text is much like that between the river and its banks, each working its effects upon the other, each contributing to the shape of the poem. “

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READER Reader

brings their version of the world to the reading experience Literacy skills Personal

experiences Educational

experiences

TEXT Simply ink and

paper until a reader reads it… no “intrinsic” meaning

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MEANING • Meaning is made when the reader’s mind

and the text TRANSACT; meaning can be:• symbolic • evocative• imagistic• emotional • conceptual

• the “meaning” happens only in the reader's mind and it occurs via the act of reading

• reader selects to have an efferent or aesthetic stance toward his/her transaction with the text

Rosenblatt states, "the reader's attention is primarily focused on what will remain as a residue after the reading -- the information to be acquired, the logical solution to a problem, the actions to be carried out.”

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Rosenblatt states, "In aesthetic reading, the reader's attention is centered directly on what he is living through during his relationship with that particular text.”

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Teachers may not lead classes along to preordained conclusions.

Primary responses are considered and examined by themselves and others

Classroom atmosphere is cooperative The conception of literary knowledge is

expanded (Who “owns” knowledge?)

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Please number the activities from 1-4 in the order that you’d like to “tackle” itEfferent to Aesthetic Text SortShakespeareNarrative TextPoetry

1 = “I would LOVE to do this one… I hope I get it!”

4 = “Ummm… if I hafta, I guess I’ll do it…”

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Strategies I Used:Student ChoiceJigsaw Cooperative LearningWhat else??

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Text Sort: Efferent to Aesthetic

Danielle & Cody

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Shakespeare: a scene from A Merchant of Venice

Dana & Lucille STANDARD DEVIANTS SERIES FUN

AND SILLY AND INFORMATIVE!!

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Narrative Megan & Katie

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Mark & Allie Wordsworth’s “The World is Too Much

With Us”

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Your choices for workshop time:Work on Short Story UnitWork on AILY LessonWork on Blog Entry for the upcoming weekWork on other course-related reading

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Burke (7: pp. 156- 181: & “The Writing Product: The Process of Working with Words” – “The Journal: Practice Makes Writers” AND pp. 210-216: “Responding to Writers”)

Gallagher (1: pp. 9-23); (3: pp. 49-62); (5: pp. 90-118); (6: pp. 132-139); (Appendices)

Complete Blog Post #3 Actively read AILY: “An Hour with Abuelo”

& “The One Who Watches” Work on AILY Lesson Work on Short Story Unit (UbD for Session 5)

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Please write me a quick note responding to:Are there term/terms have been used in

class that you don’t feel “proficient” with? (Where are your “knowledge lapses”?) I’ll write you an email with my best explanation…

Your favorite part of today’s class

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