Student Centered Assessment

A Classroom Look at Growth

The Role of Assessment in a Community

Support

Accountability

Focus

Shared Vision

Stop and Jot What is your vision for your writers?

Or…

What is your vision for your writers’ identities?

Individual identities? Their collective identity as a community?

Turn and Talk

Please share one thought with a partner.

Then share the “why” behind your thought.

Tools to Promote Instructional Change

“What we do has little impact unless we are cognizant of how to do those things in the most effective ways and for legitimate purposes.”

- Good to Great Teaching

by Mary Howard, 2012

Primary Agent of Assessment

Peter Johnston’s new book:

RTI in Literacy: Responsive and Comprehensive

“Regardless of grade,

students’ development looks different – so,

too, must literacy instruction.”

Growth Mindset & Skill Progressions Teaching students to measure their work

against a progression of skills requires:

A vision for the writing work

An expectation that all writers are capable of sharing that vision, as partners in the process

Peter Elbow’s Evolution as a Writer Started with a fixed mindset

Then… “I couldn’t write when I tried to write

everything right. And I could write when I let myself write things wrong.”

Teachers of writers need…

Learning progressions across units of study

Tools that can be used for multiple purposes

Processes for looking at writing with colleagues

Teachers of writers need…

Exemplars of work at all stages

Lesson design with structures for differentiation

Flexibility to USE data to adjust instruction

Where’s the time??

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What Makes a Difference?

John Hattie’s Meta-Analysis Learning goals Emphasize meta-cognitive strategies Multiple exposures / opportunities to practice over several days Feedback Formative evaluation

Lesson StructureModel/ Demonstrate

Direct Instruction

Active Engagement

All Students - try itTeacher – observes, gives feedback

Independent Practice

Students – enactTeacher – confers, observes, assess,

reflects, adjusts

ShareStudents & Teacher – confer, assess,

reflect, adjust

Feedback / Conference

Research – What are you working on today?

Compliment – I see you tried . . .

Decide What to Teach – What is the student

doing/ just about to do?

Teach – Demonstrate/ Model/ Exemplar

Link – Whenever you’re writing . . .

Where’s the time??

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Turn & Talk

What are you thinking about now?

“Audience Participation” time! Please decide one person per table with a

laptop or tablet to be your spokesperson on this site:

http://todaysmeet.com/maisa

If you have questions for the teachers on the panel, please jot and pass to your spokesperson for submission to the site.

Thank you, Panelists! Michelle Kemp, 12th Grade

Muskegon Public Schools

Megan Perreault, Middle School Special Education and Literacy

Orchard View Public Schools

Amy Miller, 5th GradeGrand Haven Public Schools

Terri Fortmeyer, 3rd GradeNorth Muskegon Public Schools

LEARNING TARGETS are… the day-to-day learning that we plan for our students

posted in the classroom in understandable language assessable

Types of Learning Targets

Knowledge Targets Reasoning Targets Skill Targets Product Targets Disposition Targets

Megan’s Student-Facing RubricLevel 1 Level 2 Level 3

Grouped information into sections

Each section contained information that was mostly about the same thing

Organized into a sequence of separate sections

Wrote each section according to an organizational plan

Used subheadings or clear transitions to separate sections

Put sections in an order that emphasizes key points

Used transitions and introductions or topic sentences to highlight main points

Adapted from Writing Pathways by Lucy Calkins and TCRWP Colleagues, 2013

Megan’s “Please Notice” Card

Amy Miller’s Continuum Poster

Summative Assessment

Summative Assessment

Assessment in Writing is coming into its own…

NWP

TCRWP

FAME

Quality Assessment Practices

We WILL grow together… You will grow your practices as you assess for

learning.

Our students will grow as writers.

This is just the beginning. We will all share our findings as a part of this network.

Thank you for doing that today, panelists!