1. Pre-Assessment “Teaching in the dark is a questionable practice” -Taba & Ellis

2. What is pre-assessment ?

3. What is Pre-Assessment, really? • “Any kind of assessment completed prior to teaching a lesson; informs instructional decisions” – Rick Wormeli • “Assessment is today’s means of modifying tomorrow’s instruction” – Carol Anne Tomlinson

4. Pre-Assessment Objections • What is the point of having students take a test before you’ve taught them anything? • Who has time for this stuff? • You can’t teach twenty different classes to twenty different students.

5. Have you Pre-Assessed?

6. First date assessment criteria

7. The EEK model of knowledge priority Desirable Highly Desirable Essential

9. Readiness “…we often do not plan the first learning experience or activity of a unit until the pre-assessments are completed and analyzed” – Wormeli p. 25

10. Interest “Learning presupposes interest” – Piaget

11. Learning Profiles

12. Fox, Hen, Grain

13. Fox, Hen, Grain

14. Wormeli’s Assessment Types • Pre-Assessment: “used to assess student’s readiness for content and skill development and to guide instructional decisions” • Formative Assessment: “en route checkpoints, done frequently…[for] feedback, informing instruction and reflecting subsets of EEK” • Summative Assessment: “assessments given to students at the end of learning”

15. Summative Assessment

16. “Too often, educational tests, grades, and report cards are treated by teachers as autopsies when they should be viewed as physicals.” - Douglas Reeves (founder of the Center for Performance Excellence in Colorado)

17. The EEK model of knowledge priority Desirable Highly Desirable Essential

18. Types of Assessment • Portfolios • Rubrics • Self Assessment Seminar question: You are an experienced teacher in the first day of a new school year. How would you approach preassessment in your subject area?