RIT Brief
volume 2, number 12, August 2017
KEA/K-3 formative assessment news for the piedmont-triad and northwest regions
How Can the Formative Assessment Process Help Teachers in the Classroom?
When teachers engage in the Formative Assessment Process using the construct progressions and the online platform as tools, they can support student growth and achievement across all domains of learning throughout the year.
The Formative Assessment Process isn’t just about gathering student data. The process involves five critical components:
- Selecting Learning Targets helps teachers use the evidence they have elicited and interpreted to answer the question, “What is the next skill the student needs to learn?”
- Developing Criteria for Success helps teachers and students answer the question, “What will it look like when the learning target has been met?”
- Eliciting Evidence of Learning helps teachers answer the question, “What can help me learn what the student knows?” and provides multiple pathways for students to show what they know.
- Interpreting the Evidence helps teachers identify what each student CAN do in order to identify where the student needs to go next, answering the question, “What do the evidences of learning tell me about the student?”
- Adapting and Responding to Learning Needs helps teachers answer the question, “Knowing this information, how can I respond to the needs of this student”? and it helps students answer the question, “How can I use my teacher’s feedback to learn more?”
Would you like more guidance? These five critical components are further described in our Learning Modules. Each module is around 15 minutes or less and unpacks each critical component with helpful examples. This PLC Planning Protocol can help scaffold a collaborative discussion of the five critical components during planning time.
Save the Date! Piedmont-Triad Fall Regional Meeting
Click HERE for more information and to register.
Northwest Fall Regional Meeting info coming soon!
Did you know we have Quick Guides for every construct from kindergarten through third grade?
Don't have time in your life to study the construct progression books?
The Quick Guides provide the fundamentals for each and every construct in an easy-to-read format -- one Quick Guide per construct.
On just the front and back of one page, you'll find:
- Research rationale
- Breaking it down - what is and isn't the construct about?
- Skill steps at-a-glance
- Sample activities for you to use in your classroom
How do I find the Quick Guides?
Quick Guides are located on the KEA Resources and K-3 Resources pages of our wiki. Or just click below to access them directly!
KEA Quick Guides
- Crossing Midline Quick Guide
- Emotional Literacy Quick Guide
- Engagement in Self-Selected Activities Quick Guide
- Following Directions Quick Guide
- Grip and Manipulation Quick Guide
- Hand Dominance Quick Guide
- Letter Naming Quick Guide
- Object Counting Quick Guide
K-3 Quick Guides
New Statewide Wiki
Rest assured, your Regional Wiki will remain online and continue to be updated by your Regional Implementation Team.
How do I make use of these resources?
We recommend that you think of the Regional Wiki as your first stop for KEA/K-3 FAP resources. It is based precisely on your needs and your feedback specifically for your regions. It contains a gallery of resources created by Piedmont-Triad and Northwest teachers, FAQs based on questions we've received directly from you, a plethora of resources gathered or created for you by your Regional Implementation Team, information on our regions' Community of Practice, including shared District Implementation Plans, and much more.
Looking for additional information? Our Regional Wiki homepage links directly to the new statewide K-3 FAP Wiki!
Technology Support
Check out our updated Login Directions document, which contains a few different ways you can log in to the platform this year so you can choose which way is easiest for you.
Have more questions? Our Technology Support wiki page contains Teaching Strategies contact information, FAQs based on your questions, and many other resources to help you navigate the online platform.
Planning Professional Development for this year? Module Opportunities
- NC K-3 FAP Module for Teachers, Course #6197, 1 CEU
- NC K-3 FAP Module for Administrators, Course # 7283, .3 CEU
To find out more and enroll, login through IAM and select the NCEES/TNL icon.
Interested in Joining our Advisory Council? Your Voice Matters!
Please contact Cindy at cynthia.dewey@dpi.nc.gov or Nicki at nicole.galloway@dpi.nc.gov if you are interested in this service opportunity!
k-3 literacy connections
Please join us on August 10, 2017 @2:00 pm for Read to Achieve: How it Works for ALL Students!
Are you a brand new principal? Perhaps you are already a principal, but are new to elementary school? Are you a veteran elementary principal, but would like a refresher about the components of Read to Achieve? This is the webinar for you!
We will take an in-depth look at each of the Read to Achieve components and how it relates to all students in grades K-12. In this webinar, you will also meet Lizzie. We will discuss Lizzie’s reading progress and the instructional supports that Read to Achieve puts in place for her. During this webinar, we will address some of the common myths about Read to Achieve and the formative, diagnostic assessment system. This interactive webinar will include resources specifically designed for principals. This webinar will be recorded and posted on the Read to Achieve LiveBinder.
Register at:
https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/3551709914419824641
Quick Link: NC Read to Achieve LiveBinder
Contact information:
Piedmont-Triad: Rebecca Belcastro at rebecca.belcastro@dpi.nc.gov
Northwest: Mia Johnson at mia.johnson@dpi.nc.gov