Using Assessments to Determine Students’ Needs

1. Using Assessments to Determine Students’ Needs

2. Norms Courtesy Collaborative Promote a sense of inquiry Frame meaningful questions Pay attention of self and others Assume positive intentions Be reflective • Be on time • Cell phones on silent, vibrate, or off • Be mindful of side-bar conversations • Focus on the task at hand

3. Today’s Outcomes Participants will… • Create learning progressions by dissecting standards into student skills • Examine ways to use learning progressions to assess students’ needs and learning • Discover ways to embed learning progressions into instructional practices.

4. Performance Assessments • Clarify goals • Construct learning progressions • Generate action plans • Accelerate learning

5. Writing About Our Reading Charlotte’s Web

6. Learning Progression

8. Creating Learning Progressions • Step 1: Underline key words • Step 2: List what is important • Step 3: Write a student response based on a common text • Step 4: Repeat for below and above steps

9. Learning Progression

10. Using Learning Progressions in the Classroom Self-Assessment and Writing About Reading

11. Using Learning Progressions in the Classroom Working Towards Clear Goals

12. Creating Learning Progressions • Step 1: Underline key words • Step 2: List what is important • Step 3: Write a student response based on a common text • Step 4: Repeat for below and above steps

13. Sharing Our Work

14. Exit Slip