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Teach Smarter Not Harder

Porter W. Palmer

Discovery Educator Network

Essential Question

How can we use digital tools in the classroom to engage students in their own learning processes and increase instructional time?

Learning Progression

Consider types of classroom assessment

Consider types of classroom assessment

Explore the Continuous Improvement Model

Explore the Continuous Improvement Model

Share tools to support those 4

components

Share tools to support those 4

components

Summative vs. Formative Assessment

• Summative assessment – assessment of learning– State-wide tests– NAEP– Exams– MANY classroom tests

• Formative assessment – assessment for learning

“Formative assessment is not a test. Rather, it is an ongoing process in which teachers use test-elicited evidence to adjust their instruction or students use it to adjust their learning tactics.”

Jim Popham

Teaching without assessment is like…

Continuous Improvement Model

FOCUS

F - Formulate a plan. - Disaggregate student performance data.

O - Optimize time by preparing and following a timeline. - Plan the instructional calendar.

C - Concentrate on teaching standards and collaborate with the instructional team. - Teach the instructional focus in the classroom.

U - Utilize assessments at short, frequent intervals. - Conduct frequent student assessments, maintain and monitor the teaching and learning process.

S - Sustain learning with tutorial, enrichment, and maintenance activities. – Provide tutorials for re-teaching or enrichment for objectives that have been mastered.

Anderson , G., & Davenport, P. FOCUS on student achievement: Integrated system for improving student performance, p.8.

Formative Assessment

• Research on formative assessment has shown that when teachers practice good formative assessment and students participate in it, BOTH achievement and motivation increase.

• This achievement increase can be as much as .4 to .7 standard deviations. That’s like moving from the 50th percentile to the 65th or 75th percentile.

• These effect sizes are larger than most of those found for educational interventions.

How do you know what your students need?

• Survey Monkey• Google Docs• Google Forms • Poll Everywhere• Quizlet• Local Assessment Data• DE Assessment

F - Formulate a plan. - Disaggregate student performance data.

O - Optimize time by preparing and following a timeline. - Plan the instructional calendar.

C - Concentrate on teaching standards and collaborate with the instructional team. - Teach the instructional focus in the classroom.

Check for Understanding

• Wall Wisher (Get student input)• RubiStar• DE Quiz Builder

• DE Assessment– Progress Zone– http://tinyurl.com/algebraPA

U - Utilize assessments at short, frequent intervals. - Conduct frequent student assessments, maintain and monitor the teaching and learning process.

S - Sustain learning with tutorial, enrichment, and maintenance activities. – Provide tutorials for re-teaching or enrichment for objectives that have been mastered.

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