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Jacob MartensMath CoordinatorAssessment & Math

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I came expecting

steenjones.blogspot.ca ( 2012/09)

Record on front of cue cards2

Hopes & FearsI hope you:leave with more than you expectedhave helpful conversations with your colleaguesI fear that:there is nothing new for you in what is sharedthere was either too much or too little detail

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Guiding Principles for ChangeIf you are going to start doing something new, you need to stop doing something old.Faye Brownlie

Change should be good for students, and manageable for teachers.Damien Cooper

Remember we want to be strategic about our change.Positive Deviance4

Most things are good for kids

John Hattie Visible Learning (2008)

AgendaFormative Assessment ReviewAssessment StrategiesQuestions we ask ourselvesQuestions we ask studentsFive ways of representing learningGr 3 AdditionGr 6 Fractions

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Assessment

Formative Assessment Is..On your 11x17 paper complete the following stem:

Formative Assessment is

Post-it Note Math

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usJnehrXInc

Post-it Note Math Video

How was formative assessment demonstrated by the classroom in the video?

Do 5 pen high fives and share what youve written with the fifth person.

Repeat.

Formative Assessment from Embedded Formative Assessment (2011)

using evidence to make informed decisions

See Wiliams Embedded Formative Assessment

Add examples of simple cases rainy window, low fuel, leaking pipe + non-action examples

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using evidence to make informed decisions

Rain on Window

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using evidence to make informed decisions

Writing Sample

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using evidence to make informed decisions

repairtrust.com

Empty Fuel Gauge

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Formative Assessment using evidence to make informed decisionsAn assessment functions formatively to the extent that evidence about student achievement is elicited, interpreted, and used by teachers, learners, or their peers to make decisions about the next steps in instruction that are likely to be better, or better founded, than the decisions they would have made in the absence of that evidence.Wiliam (2011)

USE by teachers and/or USE by students15

FeedbackThe most powerful single influence enhancing achievement is feedback Dylan WiliamQuality feedback is needed, not just more feedbackStudents with a Growth Mindset welcome feedback and are more likely to use it to improve their performanceOral feedback is much more effective than writtenThe most powerful feedback is provided from the student to the teacher.from Faye Brownlie

Tell me more about what you know so far?Eyeball to eyeball.Every child every day.16

Reading Break

Article Assessment by Dylan Wiliam

Read the article and highlight 2-3 items that catch your attention.

First Turn Last TurnDetermine who will initiate the sharing.

The initiator takes the First Turn and reads a highlighted item but DOES NOT ELABORATE.

Moving around the circle, each group member comments on the shared item. Cross-talk is NOT permitted.

Finally the rotation returns to the initiator, who gets the Last Turn, sharing his or her thinking about the the highlighted item.

Repeat with a new initiator.

How Our Culture Views Math

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Evidence of Learning in Math

How to AssessDefined by Function not Form

The emphasis on decisions as being at the heart of formative assessment also assists with the design of the assessment process.Consider decision-pull focus on decision that needs to be made and then look for relevant evidence.26

The Power of Observation

questions we ask ourselves

There is a Book for That

Tell me more

Questions that check for understanding

Questions to Prompt (BCAMT)

The Art of Questioning in Mathematics (NCTM)

Questioning ExerciseYour topic is FRACTIONS

You need to form groups of three.

One person will be the student.Another person will be the teachers.The third person will be the recorder.

Five Ways of Representing

Drawing Carole FullertonNumbersWordsReal life connectionsConcretely(with manipulatives)

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Grade 3 Math

Adding Left to Right

Carole Fullerton

Spin it! A game of chance

Carole Fullerton

Plot it! The Sum Game

The Bigger Sum Game

Carole Fullerton

Cuisenaire Rods

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