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Please find and fill out your FAL pre-assessment. If you don’t know the answer, leave it blank. . Let’s get started…. Sir Ken Robinson: Teachers as Gardeners. Twitter Hashtag : # GACISMath. Why FAL?. Georgia Department of Education Curriculum and Instruction Mathematics Team - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Please find and fillout your FALpre-assessment. If you don’t know the answer, leave it blank.
• Let’s get started…
Sir Ken Robinson: Teachers as Gardeners
Why FAL?Georgia Department of Education
Curriculum and Instruction Mathematics Team
Brooke Kline, Lead Program SpecialistJames Pratt, Secondary Mathematics SpecialistTurtle Toms, Elementary Mathematics Specialist
Twitter Hashtag: #GACISMath
oBasic facts come before deep learning. oRigorous education means teacher lecture. oCovering a topic means it has been taught.
True or False?
oTeaching to student interests entails a compromise of teacher
standards.
oAcceleration creates a more rigorous class.
True or False?
oA quiet classroom signifies good learning. oTraditional schooling prepares students for life.
True or False?
oFormative assessment is a special kind of test, or series of tests that teachers learn to use to find out what their students know.
o Formative assessment is a program that districts adopt and teachers add to what they already do.
oAny practice that gathers information for the purpose of improving programs or improving teaching is a part of formative assessment.
True or False?
Keep your pre-assessment near, and use it for note-taking, if you wish.
• 2011-2012- Cohort 1: Six districts piloted FALs
• 2012-2013- Cohort 2: 52 districts training in FALs
• 60 FALs currently aligned to CCGPS (MS & HS)
• Some frameworks now have FALs embedded
• Formative Assessment Lessons (FAL) are currently in use in several districts.
• The use of FAL by districts is growing.
Why?
Convince a bored 15 year old that math is vital to her survival.
oImitative
Bad Math?
oPassive/receptive
Bad Math?
oMinimal student explanations, comparisons
Bad Math?
?
What am I supposed to do?
Passive Active
Transmission Challenging
• Misconceptions• Understandings
Pre-Assessment
• Feedback• Discussion• Explanations
Collaborative Task
• Improvement• Deeper
Understanding
Post-Assessment
Let’s do a little math…
• Misconceptions• Understandings
Pre-Assessment
• Feedback• Discussion• Explanations
Collaborative Task
• Improvement• Deeper
Understanding
Post-Assessment
Put your meta-goggles on…
Effective questioning?
Cooperative small groups?
• Misconceptions• Understandings
Pre-Assessment
• Feedback• Discussion• Explanations
Collaborative Task
• Improvement• Deeper
Understanding
Post-Assessment
Put your meta-goggles on…
Building on prior knowledge?
Exposing and discussing misconceptions?
• Misconceptions• Understandings
Pre-Assessment
• Feedback• Discussion• Explanations
Collaborative Task
• Improvement• Deeper
Understanding
Post-Assessment
Put your meta-goggles on…
Methods vs. answer-getting?
Connections? Collaboration?
• Misconceptions• Understandings
Pre-Assessment
• Feedback• Discussion• Explanations
Collaborative Task
• Improvement• Deeper
Understanding
Post-Assessment
oBasic facts come before deep learning. oRigorous education means teacher lecture. oCovering a topic means it has been taught.
True or False?
oTeaching to student interests means a compromise of teacher standards.
oAcceleration creates a more rigorous class.
True or False?
oA quiet classroom means good learning. oTraditional schooling prepares students for life .
True or False?
oFormative assessment is a special kind of test, or series of tests that teachers learn to use to find out what their students know.
o Formative assessment is a program that districts adopt and teachers add to what they already do.
oAny practice that gathers information for the purpose of improving programs or improving teaching is a part of formative assessment.
True or False?
Ask yourself, ask your colleagues…
How do you support this change?
Feel like this?
Feel like this!
“ It ain’t what people don’t know that hurts them. It’s what they do know that ain’t so.”
Will Rogers
Call to Action1. Keep learning about Formative Assessment Lessons. 2. Visit grade level wikis:
http://ccgpsmathematicsk-5.wikispaces.com/ http://ccgpsmathematics6-8.wikispaces.com/ http://ccgpsmathematics9-10.wikispaces.com/
• 2012 Summer Mathematics Academy – CCGPS Vital Shifts in Content Delivery Presentation & Finger on the pulse of teacher thinking/questions/resources
3. View current grade level webinars and archived recordings of introductory webinars and video broadcasts:
https://www.georgiastandards.org/Common-Core/Pages/Math-PL-Sessions.aspx
Thank You!
Brooke KlineLead Program [email protected]
James PrattProgram Specialist (6-12)
Turtle TomsProgram Specialist (K-5)[email protected]
Follow us on Twitter@GaDOEMath
FAL Resources• McREL: What We Know About Mathematics
Teaching and Learning• Mathematics Assessment Project:
http://map.mathshell.org• Inside Mathematics:
http://www.insidemathematics.org/• http://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2010/08/22/the-
best-resources-for-learning-about-formative-assessment/