21 Tools for Conducting Digital Formative Assessments Looking for new ways to quickly assess students and gather information on what they know or find new ways to incorporate technology? Follow this link and try something different this week. Don't forget to comment so others can benefit from your experiences... Socrative A student-response system that you can use to ask questions to the class in a variety of ways. Check out the website with quick tutorial video by clicking on the picture to the right. Formative Assign assessments from exit tickets to quizzes to "show your work" questions using this free tool. Instant data!
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Many of you have incorporated CommonLit into your classrooms and they have a new feature you should check out...Guided Reading Mode. In this mode, students are prompted to answer lower-level inferencing questions during reading to help check for understanding. These questions aren't scored; they are designed to prepare students for the text-dependent question set. Great differentiation tool!
Like we have shared in our meetings and PLC's, productive struggle can be as difficult for the teacher as it is for the student. It is our nature to want to help a struggling student. We want to prompt them, give them suggestions and clues, and sometimes, just rush them along. We have a tremendous amount of content that we are responsible for in a short period of time!
As Mrs. Adams discussed increasing wait time as a strategy to focus on rigor, I thought about the following article and wanted to share it with you. Over the next couple of weeks, try the three pausing methods described in the article and share the results with your peers in your next PLC meeting. I can't wait to hear what happens! Not sure what happened with the article not showing for some of you...please let me know when that happens so I can fix it right away! I could see it on my end. If you are interested in creating short explainer videos for your students (or having them create videos as assessments), check out the following link...I'm also going to create a section under the PD tab for technology-related tips and tools. Be sure to check it out occasionally!
Thank you for the great participation yesterday in our PLC session! I look forward to seeing how the questioning sequences work in your classrooms. Please comment here so we can share experiences and learn from each other. Below you will find notes from each group and next steps.
I recently read an article on student engagement titled Burn Your Podium (and Other Hacks) by Jay Meadows. As I was reading, I realized that I’ve seen many of these activities in your classrooms on a regular basis! Keeping students engaged can sometimes seem challenging, but incorporating a few key components into your class can make a world of difference. Below are ideas discussed in the article. I would love to hear what strategies have worked best for you.
There are so many things that we can learn from one another. Unfortunately, we do not have time to always observe other classes. YOU are the experts and we need to share our ideas and experiences. I challenge each of you to share one engagement strategy that has worked for you by leaving a comment.
Want an easy way to manage your seating assignments for groups? Click on the links below to see how a teacher has used Google slides to create a seating chart template that is simple and easy to use. Before adding your student rosters, don't forget to make a copy of the file for each class!
If you have used Padlet in your classroom, check out the short video highlighting a new feature just added. If you haven't tried it yet, you should! Very simple and a great way to engage the students and solicit their feedback! Need help? Let me know!
A few questions and ideas from the Word Wall session...check out some of the links and feel free to add your own ideas.
Mrs. White has graciously offered to share her screencast with the staff detailing how to use the reporting functions in PowerSchool. It is fantastic - brief, informative, and easy to follow along. Please take a look! There are also a few other key contact people that can help with the reporting features as well as myself. Feel free to contact any of us with questions or comments. Josh Hensley Joel Brown Matt Harris Shelby White For those of you who would like a template to guide your unit planning, I am attaching a few here. The first one incorporates the required differentiation piece. *Differentiation must still be documented weekly. If choosing a different template than the first one, just add the differentiation template to your plans in your portfolio. Check out the new calendar page - I've scheduled time on Monday, 10/17 to work on setting up unit plans. If you can't make it and need help, just let me know!
CommonLit is a free collection of fiction and nonfiction for 5th-12th grade classrooms. Search and filter their library by lexile, grade, theme, genre, literary device, or common core standard.
If you teach Social Studies or ELA, this is quite the find! This 3 minute video walks you through CommonLit's newest features: class creation, student account set-up, assigning texts, the grading platform, and data analytics. Saves time for you and it is free:) Take a look and let us know what you think. If you've you used this in your class already, please share your results. |
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