debrief from pd360. looking closer... setting learning goals and providing feedback
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Debrief From PD360
Looking closer . . .
Setting Learning Goals
and Providing Feedback
Morning Session – Setting Learning Goals
• Debrief• Introduction• Instruction• Implementation• Closure
Setting Learning Goals
How do I let students know what they are supposed to learn in lessons or units?
Please reflect on the following question in your PLC Notebook or Online Journal.
Should goal setting focus on BIG IDEAS?
Intensive instruction means teach less more thoroughly.
• If you don’t know what is important, everything is important.
• If everything is important, you will try to do everything.
• If you do everything, you won’t have time to figure out what is important.
Marzano Explains Setting Goals
http://youtu.be/2A6ulEwJFMs
Teachers Setting Learning Goals
• Process of establishing a direction for learning
• Learning goals narrow what students focus on
• Goals should not be ACTIVITY based; they should be LEARNING based
Setting Learning Goals
• Learning goals need to be specific, but should not be too specific.
• "Just right" goals are specific, but flexible
"Goldilocks" Learning GoalsToo Broad Too specific Just right
Students understand the visual arts in relation to history and culture
Given two examples of art objects from the Renaissance period, students describe the function and meaning of the objects, including at least three details from each.
Students know the function and meaning of specific art objects within varied cultures, times, and places.
Students understand and apply basic and advanced properties for the concepts of numbers.
Students identify ten prime and composite numbers with 80% accuracy.
Students understand the basic difference between composite and prime numbers.
Learning Activity vs. Learning Goal
• Learning goals are concrete and measurable. o The skills the students
should take away as a result of the lesson/unit.
• Learning activities are the lessons and things the students will be doing to practice the skill in order to achieve the learning goal.
Learning Activity vs. Learning Goal
Learning Activity
Learning Goal Convert A to G
Design a menu that includes a balance of foods from the food pyramid.
Know the elements of the food pyramid and what is meant by a balanced die
Add and subtract fractions with like denominators.
Make amagnet.
Know the characteristics of a magnet
Communicating Learning Goals to Students
• Write the learning goals on the board
• Prepare a written handouto Syllabus
• Provide learning goals orally• Bulletin boards• Question of the Day• Essential Question
BREAK!
Take a ten minute break!
Helping Students Set Personal Learning Goals
• Students should be encouraged to personalize the instructional goal
• We can do this by giving students a say with..o Contento Assessmentso Time limitso Products
Personalized Goal Setting Helpful Tools
Sentence Stems (I want to know more about . . .)
• I know that the heart pumps blood through the body, but I want to know how a heart attack happens.
• I want to know how I can use a² + b² = c² in real life.
• I want to know if there is more than one theory about the causes of the Civil War
• By analyzing literature, I want to know how the American Dream has changed over the years
• I want to know why the answer to multiplication of fractions is smaller than either of the fractions multiplied.
Personalized Goal Setting Helpful Tools
Contracts:
- Contracts allow students the opportunity to state the goals they will try to attain and the grade they will receive if they do attain them
Personalized Goal Setting Helpful Tools
• K-W-L Charts• Student task
choices• Video recordings
of their goals• Learning journals
WRITE IT DOWN!
Written goals have a way of transforming wishes into wants; cannots into cans; dreams into plans; and plans into reality.
Don't just think it - ink it!
Small Group Break Out!In your department PLC group, INK IT!
Meet in your designated PLC meeting place
Share ideas for implementing these strategies in your classroom!
YOUR GOAL:
• Share a minimum of six different ideas for implementing these strategies.
• Decide as a PLC group on ONE to try in all of your classroomso All members of the PLC group should be
trying the same strategy!• Complete Closure Form as a group
Report Out
One person from each PLC fill out a colored Strategy Form
Share what your PLC discussed and what strategy you will collectively try in your classrooms.
LUNCH!
Enjoy your grub.
Afternoon Session – Providing Feedback
• Debrief• Introduction• Instruction• Implementation• Closure
Feedback that focuses on what needs to be done can encourage
all to believe that they can improve.
Black et al (2003)
Providing Feedback
Think of a time when feedback made a difference in your learning.What did the feedback look like?
Please reflect on the following question in your PLC Notebook or Online Journal.
Types of Feedback
Synthesis Study Focus Percentile Gain
Type of Feedback
Right/wrong answer -3
Correct answer 9
Repeat until corrected
20
Explanation 20
Feedback Through Grading
http://teachfind.com/secondary-assessment-formative-assessment
Segment (4:45-8:00)
While watching this video, think about your own grading practices.
How much information do you give to students about what they need to improve when grading their work?
Providing Feedback: Corrective
• Feedback should be correctiveo Provide students with
an explanation of what they are doing that is correct and what they are doing that is not correct
o Can be student-to-student (PALS)
o Can be reflective
Providing Feedback: Testing
Different ways of giving feedback on “test-like events” have varied impacts on learning
• Small Gainso Providing them with the correct answer
• Big Gainso Providing students with an explanation as to what is right
and what is wrong with their answers o Allowing them to repeat the task (retake test) until they can
succeed • Loss
o Telling students if answer is right or wrong (simply telling them their score)
Timing of Feedback
Providing Feedback: Timely
• Feedback should be timelyo Feedback that occurs immediately after a test has
the greatest effect on achievemento Feedback that occurs immediately after a test item
has the least effect on achievement
o In assessment situations, Immediately after assessment +++ Delayed after assessment ++ Immediately after an item in assessment -
Providing Feedback: Specific
• Feedback should be specific to a criteriono Reference a specific level of skill
or knowledge Need to provide feedback on what
students have learned about the content rather than how they stand relative to others or what grade they received
Providing Feedback: Activity
At your tables, you have five different formative assessments.
Discuss and record with your group members the following:
• Which of the CITW feedback goals is this formative assessment addressing?
• How is it assessing students?
• What could it be used for?
Record your answers in your PLC journal!
Providing FeedbackHelpful Tools
• Student’s Own Progress Monitoringo Keep track of their performance over time
Graph correct number of words (problems) correct in a minute
Read Naturally – reading fluency Fast Facts / Mad Minute – math
• Student-Led Feedbacko Peer revision of English papero Peer review of steps taken to solve a math problemo Peer Assisted Learning Strategies in reading and math
• Rubrics
• Checklists• Rubric Builder• RubiStar• Rubric Maker• Electronic Portfolio• SurveyMonkey• SMART Goal Setting• Assessment as Feedback
Providing FeedbackHelpful Tools
http://www.pd360.com/index.cfmContentId=141
Meet in your designated PLC meeting place
Share ideas for implementing these strategies in your classroom!
YOUR GOAL:
• Share ways you have used effective feedback in your classroom
• Create new ideas for giving feedback• How, as a PLC, are you going to give better
feedback to students?• Complete Closure Form as a group
Small Group Break Out!
Report Out
Share with the people at your table what your PLC discussed and what strategy you will try in your classroom.
Summary of In-Service
You have TWO new things to try in your classroom!
Set clear learning goals for yourself and students!
Give meaningful feedback!
Before Next Time...
Post your experience trying your new strategies to our PD360 group.
• Which strategies did you try?• What went well?• What are you going to modify for next time?