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ELAR
- Keep in mind that the EOY window for ELAR data will open May 1st and should be in the last school day of the month. Please let me know what support you need with this.
Watch this video of a research-decide-teach conference with Jennifer Serravallo and Julianne, a fourth grader. As you watch, notice the structure of the conference. Using this structure can help keep our conferences focused and smoothly paced.
- Research: Ask questions, look at artifacts, have the student read aloud.
- Decide: Determine a strength and possibility for teaching; ideally, these are aligned.
- Compliment: Offer a clear, explicit compliment just like in a compliment conference.
- Teach: Offer a strategy and give feedback as the student practices.
- Link: Repeat the strategy and state your expectations for what the student will do as he continues practicing independently.
Research-Decide-Teach conference
Math
- There are three different approaches to differentiate a lesson, according to Tomlinson (2001): Content (what you want each student to know), Process (how you engage students in thinking about that content), Product (how students will demonstrate what they have learned).
Attached is an excerpt from the YouCubed site by Jo Boaler on the importance of using visuals in math-check it out!
Formative Assessment Ideas
Mentoring Minds Formative Assessment wheel
Teacher FeedbackFeedback helps students improve performance.
- Have peers use success criteria to give feedback
- Give clear, descriptive, task-specific feedback
- Use oral, written, or demonstration methods
- Discuss progress toward the learning goal
- Use positive and improvement comments
- Provide specific, next-step strategies
- Specify what the student did well
- Focus on improvement
- Identify learning gaps
- Give timely feedback
- Comment on the task, not the student