Reading Specialist Summer 2014
LE 2: Teaching-Learning Critical Pathways
Critical Friends Protocol
Data Wall
Assessment for learning
How will you use the forms and purposes of assessment meaningfully in reading?
Example of a TLCP planning chart
Learning Goals & Success Criteria
- provide a clear focus
- co-constructed with students
- basis for ongoing descriptive feedback
- consistency with reading expectations
TLCP Relating to Reading
TLCPs provide teachers with a model or process to manage their instruction in the most expert way possible.
How This Relates to Reading:
• Provide students with a variety of rich texts and resources upon which to build their reading skills
• Use a wide range of high yield strategies that promote student growth in reading and support the identified area(s) of student need
• Have students complete an agreed-upon culminating reading task which can be used for moderated assessment
TLCPs identify students’ greatest area of need a ‘big idea’ that will engage students.
How This Relates to Reading:
• Identify critical reading strategies students need to acquire
• Choose something that is relevant to reading that the students need to focus on (e.g. making connections, inferring) and collaboratively decide upon a big idea/focus that will engage students
TLCPs provide students with many opportunities to develop and demonstrate their deep thinking.
How This Relates to Reading:
• Use a wide range of high yield strategies that support the identified area of student need
• Differentiate reading instruction to meet the needs of all students
TLCPs provide opportunity for both staff and students to reflect on learning and teaching.
How This Relates to Reading:
• Sharing reading teaching practices with colleagues
• Sharing evidence of student learning by posting actual student reading results on a classroom data wall to be analyzed by students and school data wall to be analyzed by staff
• Collaborative assessment of student reading (DRAs and other reading assessment results)
• Use common reading rubrics throughout grades/divisions
• Have students discuss what reading strategies they found most helpful to support their thinking
TLCPs conclude with next steps that contribute to the next TLCP and school-wide changes.
How This Relates to Reading:
• Have students complete an agreed-upon culminating reading task which can be used for moderated assessment and use the results to plan for the next TLCP reading focus
TLCP Brochure
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