Jacob MartensSD39 (Vancouver)

@renomyclassrenomyclass.com

Small ChangesConversation About Formative Assessment with Dover Bay

Highschool

Give & Go On your card complete the following stem:

Formative Assessment is… Find a someone you don’t see very often. Read your cards to each other. Swap cards. Find someone new. Read your “new” cards to each other & swap.

Hopes & FearsHopes Your conversations today deepen your learning You leave considering one small changeFears Your conversation has no impact on students Inadequate time & structure is provided for your

conversation

What Did You Do In School Today (2009)

What Did You Do In School Today (2009)

What Did You Do In School Today (2009)

Learning GoalsThat today you leave with: A working definition of formative assessment Deeper knowledge of current educational research Ideas for small changes that have a big bang

Affect GoalsThat today you leave believing: Formative Assessment is worth learning more about Positive Deviance is a healthy way to embrace

change

Formative Assessment from Embedded Formative Assessment (2011)

using “evidence” to make informed “decisions”

using “evidence” to make informed “decisions”

using “evidence” to make informed “decisions”

using “evidence” to make informed “decisions”

using “evidence” to make informed “decisions”

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Reading #1Excerpt from Embedded Formative Assessment Ch. 2Assessment: The Bridge Between Teaching & Learning p.46-50) Find a partner Read the excerpt silently Share one thing that resonated with you & why.

Using Formative Assessment

QuestionsBarriersPositives

Using “evidence” to make informed “decisions”

Formative Assessment

using “evidence” to make informed “decisions”

“An assessment functions formatively to the extent that evidence about student achievement is elicited, interpreted, and used by teachers, learners, or their peers to make decisions about the next steps in instruction that are likely to be better, or better founded, than the decisions they would have made in the absence of that evidence.”

Wiliam (2011)

Formative Assessment

Defined by Function not Form

Reflection

Where do you use formative assessment in your classroom?

Managing Change

“Change should be good for students and manageable for teachers.”

Damien Cooper

“If you are going to start doing something new, you need to stop doing something old.”

Faye Brownlie

Specific Strategies for Implementing Formative Assessment• Clarifying & Sharing Learning

Intentions & Success Criteria• Eliciting Evidence of Learning• Providing Feedback That

Moves Learning Forward • Peers as Instructional

Resources for One Another• Students as Owners of Their

Own Learning

Research Background

How to Implement

Visible Learning for Teachers

Synthesizes the results of 15 years of evidence-based research involving millions of students into what actually works in schools to improve learning AND links them to practical classroom implementation.

Effect Size

a scale used to evaluate the effect of various influences/interventionsmeasures the amount of changeeffect size of 0.3 is barely noticeableeffect size of 0.7 is clearly noticeable

Distribution of Effects

Hinge Point

Appendix D

Short List of Influences

© 2011 Halbert & Kaser

Key Questions For Learner Engagement & Connection

Who are two adults in this school who believe you will be a success in life?

Where are you going with your learning?

How is it (your learning) going? Where to next?

How do we get there?

There are:No silver bullets.No tips & tricks.No short cuts.

Need a framework

© 2011 by Halbert & Kaser

Start with Learning Intentions

© 2011 by Mark Sample

Backward Design

Text

© 2011 by Wiggins & McTighe

Clear Learning Intentions

A process I have used:1. Photocopy “Suggested Achievement

Indicators”2. Re-write/Revise to make “student

friendly”3. Separate into Know’s & Do’s4. Articulate the “Big Ideas” using KUD5. Make a “flashy” newsletter

Feedback

That Moves Learning Forward1. Focuses on the learning intention of the

task2. Occurs as the students are doing

learning3. Describes what students have achieved4. Prompts to suggest ways students can

improve

Reporting Tool

© Brooke Moore et al.

Learning GoalsThat today you leave with: A working definition of formative assessment Deeper knowledge of current educational research Ideas for small changes that have a big bang

Affect GoalsThat today you leave believing: Formative Assessment is worth learning more about Positive Deviance is a healthy way to embrace

change

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