CPUMS
Week of November 28
Formative Assessment Strategies-Read, Set, Show
- Student holds up a single finger if they are terribly confused
- Two fingers if they believe that are starting to understand
- Three fingers if they think they have mastered the content
General Literacy Learning Practices #1
In the book, Visible Learning for Literacy, Fisher &Frey highlight three practices that are essential for learning:
1. Challenge-"Students appreciate challenge. They expect to work hard to achieve success in school and life. When tasks become too easy, students get bored. Similarly, when tasks become to difficult, students get frustrated. There is a sweet spot for learning, but the problem is that it differs for different students." (p.21)
What makes a Task Challenging?
"Unfortunately, some people confuse difficulty with complexity. We like to think of difficulty as the amount of effort or work a student is expected to put forth whereas complexity is the level of thinking, the number of steps, or the abstractness to the task. We don't believe that teachers can radically impact students' learning by making them do a lot more work." (p.24)
General Literacy Learning Practices #2
- Understand complex tasks as challenges rather than trying to avoid them
- Experience failure as opportunities to learn,which may require additional effort, information,support, time and so on
- Quickly recover a sense of confidence after setbacks
Mr. Graven's and my work on Growth Mindsets relates to this concept.
#3 Learning intentions with success criteria
This concept will be discussed at the early dismissal on Thursday.
Great resource of Fisher & Frey's work
Calendar
Monday 11/28/16
- Working with Cory on Mindsets for 7th and 8th graders
- Meeting with Jennifer Burkhart and Mr. Winterhof
- Team meetings-task
- Book study-Mathematical Mindsets
Tuesday, 11/29/16
- Big picture planning
- Visit classrooms
- Subject area meetings
Wednesday,11/30/16
- Faculty meeting
- Out of building-Jim Knight presentation
- Out of building-Jim Knight presentation
- Early dismissal
Friday, 12/2/16
- Presentation of Mindsets to 8th grade-Rob's room
- IC Meetings-PM
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