hands on the wheel: using tech & formative assessment to ... · hands on the wheel: using tech...
TRANSCRIPT
Hands on the Wheel: Using Tech & Formative
Assessment to Drive Writing Instruction
Lisa WardLearning Supports Content Specialist
Illinois State Board of Education
Jill BrownELA Content Specialist
Illinois State Board of Education
Illinois State Board of Education
Teen Age Driving
https://youtu.be/A1OD1ENaMfc
Illinois State Board of Education
Answers to Questions Today:
1. What IS Formative Assessment (FA)?
2. How do I use FA during writing?
3. What are signals that my students give when writing?
4. What tech can support writing?
Illinois State Board of Education
Formative Assessment
Used by Teachers AND students Completed during and after
instruction Provides feedback to adjust
ongoing instruction and learning Improves student achievements of
intended learning outcomes
Illinois State Board of Education
Why Formative Assessment?
Average effect size is between .4 and .7, the equivalent of going from the 50th percentile to the 65th percentile.”
Hattie, 2015
Illinois State Board of Education
Seven Strategies of Formative Assessment
Where am I now?(criteria for success)
Where am I going?(analyze evidence)
How can I close the gap?(adjust instruction)
1.Provide a clear and understandable vision of the learning goals.
2.Use examples of strong and weak work.
3.Offer regular descriptive feedback.4.Teach students to self-assess and set goals.
5.Design lessons to focus on one aspect of quality at a time.
6.Teach students focused revision.7.Engage students in self-reflection and let them
document and share their learning.
7
Illinois State Board of Education
• Set Purpose =
Content contained is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License
#1: Set Clear and Explicit Goals
Today we are going to learn….The reason we are going to learn this is….
• State Objective At the end of this lesson, you will be able to
• Connect to previous learning Yesterday, we learned
• Teach new concept or skillWatch me or listen to me as I… (I do)
• Guide Practice Now, let’s try this together…(We do)
• Assess Student ApplicationLet’s see you try this on your own…(You do)
• Return to Purpose Tell your partner what you learned today
• Provide Opportunity For Independent PracticeI want to give you a chance now to show that you can do this independently.
When you’re working independently today, I would like you to …
Illinois State Board of Education
Tools to Support Goal Settinghttps://www.toodledo.com/
Illinois State Board of Education
#2: Use Examples of Strong and Weak Work
Strong Weak
Illinois State Board of Education
Book Creator- iOS- Chromebook- PC- FREE – 1
Library/40 books
https://bookcreator.com/Tools to Support Goal Setting
OneNote
Illinois State Board of Education
#3 Offer Regular and Descriptive Feedback
Teacher Peer
Illinois State Board of Education
Feedback
1. It must be timely.2. It must be specific.3. It must be understandable
to the receiver.4. It must allow the student
to act on the feedback (refine, revise, practice, and retry).
Descriptive Avoids praise or blame Focuses on the intended
learning Suggests strengths and
challenges Corrective information
at one sitting Models self assessment
Illinois State Board of Education
Tools to Support Feedback
Illinois State Board of Education
Voice Thread
Illinois State Board of Education
Illinois State Board of Education
Illinois State Board of Education
#4: Teach Students to Self Assess & Set Goals• Require clear targets • Teach students to compare their
status to the targets • Teach students to justify their
judgments with evidence from their work
• Teach students to set a “next step” goal
Illinois State Board of Education
Tools to Support Self Assessment
Illinois State Board of Education
Student Created Rubrics
https://www.quickrubric.com/
Illinois State Board of Education
http://rubistar.4teachers.org/index.php
Illinois State Board of Education
W.3.8 Recall information from experiences or gather information from print and digital sources; take brief notes on sources and sort evidence into provided categories.
#5: Design Lessons to Focus on One Aspect of Quality at a Time
Illinois State Board of Education
Tools to Support Skill Specific Work
Free platform includes:• Up to 5 playlists with 5 songs/recordings• Up to 100 views per day of each playlist/pod cast• 5mb file size• Embed on websites and LINK sharing
Free platform includes:• Up to 15 pages/publication• 1 User• Embed with a watermark
https://www.flipsnack.com/ https://www.podsnack.com/
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ourstickys-sticky-notes-o/oficbemndigeiiennldcdfcklocpkggd?hl=en
http://www.videonot.es/
Illinois State Board of Education
https://www.curriculumpathways.com/portal/#info/1759
• Chrome App click picture for link• iOS platform as well
Illinois State Board of Education
#6: Teach Students Focused Revision
Illinois State Board of Education
Tools to Support Revision
• Docs Add-On
https://goo.gl/r89FP6
• Chrome Extension
https://goo.gl/PcdkhD
Illinois State Board of Education
http://www.analyzemywriting.com/
Analyze My Writing
Illinois State Board of Education
#7: Engage Students in Self-Reflection: Keep Track of and Share Their Learning
What can I do to reach it?
What was my goal?
What questions do I still have?
Illinois State Board of Education
Tools to Support Sharing Learning
http://education.weebly.com/
Illinois State Board of Education
Who’s Driving Your Writing Instruction?Student Teacher
• Reflecting on learning• Self assessing• Providing feedback to
others• Sharing their learning• Making revisions • Engaging in discussion
about revisions
• Providing opportunities for discussion/collaboration
• Sharing samples of quality work to emulate
• Creating student friendly rubrics
• Scaffolding for skills• Teaching tech to support
student learning
Illinois State Board of Education
Tools and Resources forELA
MATHScience
Social ScienceSocial Emotional Learning
TechnologyFine Arts
www.ilclassroomsinaction.org
Jill Brown: [email protected] Ward: [email protected]