Pecos ISD: Crockett
Writing Work Day: 1/19/16
Welcome!
Here's what to expect today:
- Check in: how are things?
- Focus: Benchmark Data Driven Planning
- The Gift of Time: planning related activities & lessons
The Final Countdown: 7 Weeks of Instruction Remaining until STAAR
TEA: All things STAAR
- Find released tests here
- Find all things writing (rubrics, sample comp boxes, student samples, etc.) here
- Find updated writing grade 7 STAAR redesign here (10/5/15)
- Find updated grade 7 Performance Level Descriptors here (10/5/15)
- See 2015-2016 Testing Calendar here
- See the updated testing Dictionary Policy here
The Focus: Figure 19! Inferential Thinking
TEKS Resource System
To note:
YAG (Year at a Glance)
IFD (Instructional Focus Document)
VAD (Vertical Alignment Document)
- Performance Assessments
Recall & Check In: Teaching the Whole Cookie
Reminder: Face to Face Training Round 1
Reminder: Face to Face Training Round 2
Questioning to Promote Thinking
How are you questioning your students? How are they questioning one another?
- Pre-planning Higher Order Thinking Questions in lesson plans
- Focused Shift: Student questioning through sticks, wheels, mats, etc.
- See ELAR "sticks" here
- Use a Random Generator: http://www.classtools.net/random-name-picker/
- Socratic Seminar, "Speed Dating", THINKING while reading...Figure 19 tie in
- DOK chart from Alice Keeler's blog
For Planning
- Depth of Knowledge Chart (click here)
- Bloom's Planning Guide Chart (click here)
- 501 Writing Prompts: http://goo.gl/azuMdF
- STAAR test Study Guide from Region 10 (click here)
Also check out TEA's Write for Texas Resources (click here)
Formative Assessment
What IS a formative assessment?
“A tool that teachers use to measure student grasp of specific topics and skills they are teaching…(and) to identify specific student misconceptions and mistakes while the material is being taught.” --Stuart Kahl, 2005, page 38
The marriage of learning progressions and high-quality formative assessment strategies will answer the following key questions to guide instructor feedback:
(Hattie & Timperley, The Power of Feedback, p.81, 2007)
Where am I going (what are the goals)?
How am I going (what progress is being made toward the goal)?
Where do I go next (what activities need to be undertaken to make progress)?
It's all about FEEDBACK:
Feedback should be timely and focus on the most important learning goals.
Comments rather than grades yield a higher quality of work and understanding.
Feedback should cause thinking.
Feedback should be more work for the recipient than the donor.
Students should have class time to revise work before re-submission.
Feedback should be specific and task oriented.
Check out some examples here...
Need a Review Tool?
Assess & Engage with Kahoot!
Engage your students with an interactive and competitive review!
- Use Kahoot! to review and interact with your students and gamify your classroom
- Ideas: review concepts, vocabulary, grammar, elements of a STAAR rubric, classroom rules, multiple choice questions
- Enrich: have students create their own Kahoots! to play as a class
- Let's play! Go to kahoot.it
- Ready to create your own for free? getkahoot.com
Need a no tech option? Try Plickers!
Student Response Systems without Student Devices
Emoji Exit Ticket
Save These Dates!
Round 3 Results Driven Instruction Training
When: all week February 2-6
Cost: free!
Locations:
Tuesday, 2/2: Pecos ISD (register here)
Wednesday, 2/3: Marfa ISD
Thursday, 2/4: ESC18, conference room C
Saturday, 2/6: Ector Middle School
Don't Forget Distinguished Lecture!
Future Planning: Summer Literacy Academy
Thanks for today!
Laura Kile
Email: lkile@esc18.net
Website: http://www.esc18.net/Page/148
Location: Region 18 Education Service Center, La Force Boulevard, Midland, TX, United States
Phone: 432.563.2380
Twitter: @mslkile