professional development strategy update - december 2012
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Progress on Professional Development Strategy #1December, 2012
If teachers attend monthly assessment literacy meetings and meet weekly in grade level Professional Learning Communities (PLC) to share and apply the 7 strategies of assessment literacy (AL), then we will increase the percentage of teachers embedding AL into their daily instruction as measured by quarterly student surveys in grades 2-5.
Strategy #1
Provide a clear and understandable
vision of the learning target.
I can learn whatever I need to learn to do well in school.
Strategy #1
I know if my work is good or not before I give it to the teacher.
Strategy #1
It is clear to me what I am expected to learn.
Strategy #1
My teacher tells our class what we are going to learn before we start to learn it.
Strategy #1
I can explain why my work is good or not.
Strategy #1
After learning something, I can explain what I learned.
Strategy #1
I understand my teacher’s system of grading.
Strategy #1
Strategy #2
Use examples and models of strong and
weak work.
My teacher uses examples of good and poor work to help me understand what good work looks like.
Strategy #2
I can tell what I need to do to make my work better.
Strategy #2
I know how to do work that will get a good grade.
Strategies #1 & #2
Strategy #3
Offer regular descriptive feedback.
My teacher helps us judge the quality of our work before we turn it in.
Strategy #3
Strategy #4
Teach students to self-assess and set
goals.
After we take a test, we use it to show us what we are good at and what we still need to work on.
Strategy #4
Strategy 5: Design lessons to focus on one aspect of quality at a time.
Strategy 6: Teach students focused revision.
Strategy 7: Engage students in self-reflection and let them keep track of and share their learning.
I can use samples of my work to show what I have learned.
Strategy #7
I keep track of how my work gets better over time.
Strategy #7
I can compare samples of my work to show how much I have improved.
Strategy #7
When I try to learn something hard, I can learn it.
If I decide to get good grades, I really can do it.
I do well in school.
I am good at learning.
What is the main reason students get good grades?
When students manage to learn hard things in school, what is the main reason?