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WRITING
Teachers will• understand similarities between CCSS and AP• write CFAs for specific standards and grades
Open-Ended
COMMON FORMATIVE ASSESSMENTS
Ayn Grubb
What do students need to learn?
4 PLC QUESTIONS:
How will we know when they’ve learned it?
What will we do if they don’t learn it?
What will we do if they already know it?
Backwards Design
PASS/C3
Determine a theme or central idea of a text and analyze its development over the course of the text, including its relationship to the characters, setting, and plot; provide an objective summary of the text.
RL.8.2
CCSS Determine the main
(or major) idea and how those ideas are supported with specific details.
Paraphrase and summarize text to recall, inform, or organize ideas.
3.3 (8th grade)
Sample Test Question: AP
Q3What skills will help students
perform well on this free-response question?
Sample Test Question: AP
Q2What new skills can you add
to your list?
Backwards Design
CCSS
AP/Pre-AP
Using the Standards
Read the two 8th grade excerpts with the standards in mind.
Consider and discuss: Which standards can you cover
with these two short excerpts?
Also, HOW will you teach it?
How will you know if students learned it?
Teaching Ideas: 2Q2T
1. What is this piece about?Answer = topic
2. What is _______ trying to
tell us about ___________?author
topic
How will you know if students learned it?
Teaching Ideas: Concept Circles
Common Core PASS/C3
AP Pre-AP
How will you know if students learned it?
Teaching Ideas: Standard Questions
1: How do you know? Prove it. Show me. Where’s your evidence?
2: 2Q2T
3: How does X impact Y?
4: Concept circles and other vocab activities
Teaching Ideas: Standard Questions
5: How does structure impact meaning?
6: How does POV impact meaning?
7: What is the effect of presentationin a different medium?
8: Outline the argument.
9: How does this fit into a larger context?
Exemplar Text Samples:
http://www.edweek.org/media/25common_2b.pdf
How will you know if they learned it?
Read the text with the standards in mind.
Write one question or develop one task that will check student understanding of one standard.
Repeat for as many other standards as possible.
Refining Your Questions…
connected directly to one standard?
written to the appropriate level of complexity?
Is each question/task…
Bloom’s Taxonomy
Check your verbs to make sure your tasks are written to the appropriate level of complexity.
Your Missionshould you choose to accept it
Write your own formative assessments. Connected to a standard Appropriately complex
Attend the other two sessions...and bring colleagues with you. Structure of the Standards The Truth about Text Complexity
Spread the word. C & I is here to serve and support.
Feedback
Why do the CCSS seem so similar to Pre-AP and AP kinds of teaching?
What was helpful about this workshop?
What further instruction do you need?