How Will You Get ThemThere if You Don’t Know

Where They Are?Galileo Leadership Conference

August 8, 2012 Northville High School

Mary Kline Walled Lake Consolidated Schools Galileo 2003 - 2005

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Today’s Learning TargetsYou will be able to:

describe the formative assessment process

explain the importance of learning targets in the formative assessment process.

name three formative assessment strategies/tools.

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stranger?acquaintance?

friend?BFF?

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Why?“…formative assessment is an essential

component of classroom work … We know of no other way of raising standards for which such a strong prima facie case can be made.”

- Paul Black and Dylan White, Inside the Black Box: Raising Standards Through Classroom Assessment

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“…simply raising standards in our schools, without giving students the means of reaching them, is a recipe for disaster.”

(Dweck, p. 194)

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Marzano

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A Focus on Learning vs. Teaching

I TAUGHT STRIPE HOW TO WHISTLE

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I DON’T HEAR HIM WHISTLING

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I SAID I TAUGHT HIM. I DIDN’T SAY HE LEARNED IT

From Checking for Understanding, King Features Syndicate.

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ANOTHER ANALOGY?When __________________, that’s formative.

When __________________, that’s summative.

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EACH PLAYS AN IMPORTANT ROLE IN TEACHING AND

LEARNING!

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FORMATIVE SUMMATIVE

during instruction after instruction

ongoing one point in time

Not graded(can be ‘scored’)

graded

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Three key differences

between formativeand summative assessment…

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SPECIFIC, CLEAR LEARNING TARGETS understood by students;

a PLAN FOR ASSESSESSING throughout the learning;

Students receive ACTIONABLE FEEDBACK;

INSTRUCTION is constantly MONITORED AND ADJUSTED based on assessment evidence.

FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT

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Turn and Talk

Quality formative assessment has…

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“Teachers use formative assessment to inform instructional methods… at the very least, teachers should check for understanding every 15 minutes.”

-Douglas FisherChecking for Understanding

EXAMPLES• Exit slips• White boards• Thumbs up/down• Anticipation Guides• 3, 2, 1• Surveys• Quick writes• Turn and talk• Strategic questioning• Red light/Yellow Light/Green Light

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Students who

can identify

what they are learning

significantly

outscore those who cannot. -

Marzano

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“Students can hit any target they can see that holds still for them.”

~Rick Stiggins

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BUT I POST THE OBJECTIVE EVERY DAY!

STANDARD: What students should know and be able to do at the end of a given time period .

Examples: CCSS, GLCE, HSCE

LEARNING TARGET: The very next thing students need to know how to do to master the standard.

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• a statement of the intended learning (NOT an activity);

• written in clear, student-friendly language shared with students;

• specific to a lesson;

• assessable during the current learning session.

EFFECTIVE LEARNING TARGETS ARE:

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Do students know when they’ve learned it?

Do they know what to do next if they haven’t learned it?

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FEEDBACK

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ACKNOWLEDGESUCCESS

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GUIDE FUTURE THINKING

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FEED-UP (LEARNING TARGET): Where am I going?

FEEDBACK: How am I doing?

FEED-FORWARD: Where am I going next?

Visible learning: A synthesis of over 800 meta-analyses relating to achievement (p. 176), by J. Hattie, 2009, New York: Routledge.

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• specific• directly tied to the learning

target• describes instead of evaluates• actionable - If the student acts

on the feedback it will move him/her closer to the target.

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Today’s Learning TargetsAre you able to:

describe the formative assessment process?

explain the importance of learning targets in the formative assessment process?

name three formative assessment strategies?

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How does formative assessment impact

the teacher’s role in the learning process?

the student’s role in the learning process?

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"If you can both listen to children and accept their answers, not as things to just be judged right or wrong but as pieces of information which may reveal what the child is thinking, you will have taken a giant step toward becoming a master teacher, rather than merely a disseminator of information."

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