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Students First

Students First. How are you and your students smart? What are the essentials for student centered assessment? What are the characteristics of middle years students? What are some of the most important assessment approaches?. Welcome from Manitoba, Canada!. Who we are: Barb Lepp

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Students First

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  1. Students First • How are you and your students smart? • What are the essentials for student centered assessment? • What are the characteristics of middle years students? • What are some of the most important assessment approaches?

  2. Welcome from Manitoba, Canada! Who we are: • Barb Lepp • Suzanne Godard • Deb Russell • Alvin Gross

  3. Anticipation Guide • How are you and your students smart? • What are the essentials for student centered assessment? • What are the characteristics of middle years students? • What are some of the most important assessment approaches?

  4. Purpose of School has Changed from to Ranking/sortingLearning for all Goal: Independent, self-directed learners

  5. The Mountain Ranking and Sorting Source: Douglas Reeves

  6. Moving the Mountain Higher Learning for All Source: Douglas Reeves

  7. Shift Happens 21 year olds today have: • Watched 20,000 hours of TV • Played 10,000 hours of Video Games • Talked 10,000 hours on cell phones • Sent/received 250,000 emails or text messages • Over half of them have created content on the web

  8. Communication and Problem Solving • Learners are coming to us with a different skill set and need to leave us with a different mind set. • Today’s Employers want people with the ability to: • Communicate • Collaborate • Create

  9. Assessment is Changing Because we know more about: • how students learn (constructivism) • brain research • supporting learning through feedback • importance of engagement/motivation • impact of classroom assessment for learning The student is at the centre of classroom assessment… Students First!

  10. Gardener’s Multiple Intelligences

  11. Scientific Process • Problem • Hypothesis • Experiment • Observation • Conclusion

  12. Essentials of Student-Centered Assessment • Are Involved • Understand Learning Goals • Know Criteria for Success • Receive and Use Descriptive Feedback Research shows increases in student achievement and motivation when students:

  13. Collage Assignment

  14. Setting Criteria Source: Setting and Using Criteria – Kathleen Gregory, Caren Cameron, Anne Davies (1997)

  15. Sample Collage 1

  16. Self-Assessment

  17. Teacher Assessment

  18. Sample Collage 2

  19. Teacher Assessment

  20. Descriptive feedback: • Is the key to successful assessment for learning • Needs to be immediate • Should be specific and detailed • Should guide learning and identify a way forward • Makes connections between students’ thinking and the learning that is expected • Provides the student with manageable next steps and an example of what good work looks like • Gives recognition for achievement and growth • Includes clear directions for improvement • Encourages students to think about, and respond to the suggestions • Focuses on both quality and learning Source: Rethinking Classroom Assessment with Purpose in Mind – Manitoba Education, Citizenship and Youth (2006)

  21. Essentials of Student-Centered Assessment • Are Involved • Understand Learning Goals • Know Criteria for Success • Receive and Use Descriptive Feedback Research shows increases in student achievement and motivation when students:

  22. What About Marks? If students: They will be well-prepared for any summative evaluation tasks they are faced with.

  23. Pop Quiz! • What is the scientific process? • What are the four essentials of student based assessment?

  24. Typical Reaction to Pop Quiz • How did you feel when you found out there would be a pop quiz? • How do our students feel? • It doesn’t rule out pop quizzes, but what do we then do with the pop quiz? • Does it emphasize and allow us to see learning styles?

  25. The Middle Years Learner • Social beings – active learners who enjoy interaction with learners • Preoccupied with self • Need approval • Value democratic processes in classrooms • Need to release energy • Mood swings • Fragile self-esteem • Need to belong. Source: http://www.edu.gov.mb.ca/k12/cur/ela/docs/middleyears.html (based on NMSA position paper from 1995).

  26. Ideas • Index cards – a kinesthetic activity • Brainstorm a list of 9 words on a topic. • Geometry – line, geometry, intersect, cone, circle, point, parallel, angle, segment • Put the words on index cards • With a partner or in a small group lay out the cards • Write a sentence using 3 words either horizontally, vertically or diagonally

  27. Vocab Cards Circle Intersect Line Point Geometry Cone Parallel Angle Segment

  28. Variations • Write the sentences on strips of paper • Or poster paper • Write a definition of the term on the back of the index card • If 9 is too many, use only 6 • Use coloured pens for different topics

  29. Variations • Social Studies topics • Canadian government – cabinet, senate, MP, bill, Prime Minister, Opposition, minority, House of Commons, backbencher • Sticky tack the terms to the wall • Change order & sequence

  30. The Middle Years Learner • Social beings – active learners who enjoy interaction with learners • Preoccupied with self • Need approval • Value democratic processes in classrooms • Need to release energy • Mood swings • Fragile self-esteem • Need to belong. Source: http://www.edu.gov.mb.ca/k12/cur/ela/docs/middleyears.html (based on NMSA position paper from 1995).

  31. Middle Years Learner Most Appropriate Assessment Approaches: • Self-assessment (journals, projects), • Student-teacher review of work, • Peer review. • Descriptive feedback

  32. Middle Years Learner • Student/Teacher Relationship: student as explorer, teacher as guide • Pedagogical Tools: Active learning, community of learners, affective/social learning, metacognitive strategies.

  33. Give them a taste of technology infused classrooms • ALVIN WILL HAVE SEVERAL SLIDES HERE… WILL FINISH THIS WEEK • Animation… digital portfolios, networks, video projects/work, website building, blogging, robotics, smartboard, GPS, interactive games (student/teacher/third-party) and how assessment fits into all of them.

  34. Do more • Explain the purpose and relevance of learning • Provide choice and scaffolding toward responsibility • Provide opportunities to learn with others • Specific, descriptive feedback • Self-assessment related to criteria • Metacognitive activities to help students realize how they learn

  35. Do You Have Math Anxiety?

  36. Do Less • Testing • Drill and practice for test making • Self-evaluation (grading own work) • Comparison of students re: test results • Competition for marks

  37. Visit us on the web… • http://studentsfirst.pbwiki.com • Barb Lepp’s conclusion

  38. Visit us on the web… • Image on Slide #1: sxc.hu, laura00, http://www.sxc.hu/photo/829482 • Image on Slide #2: Google Maps, http://maps.google.com • Image on Slide #2: Elm Creek School Website, http://www.cici.mb.ca/ecs/ • Image on Slide #4: sxc.hu, channah, http://www.sxc.hu/photo/812652 • Image on Slide #5: sxc.hu, madmaven, http://www.sxc.hu/photo/656579 • Image on Slide #8: sxc.hu, michelmik, http://www.sxc.hu/photo/768014 • Image on Slide #8: sxc.hu, mantiswong, http://www.sxc.hu/photo/8707 • Image on Slide #8: sxc.hu, reznor70, http://www.sxc.hu/photo/817292 • Image on Slide #8: sxc.hu, kveselyte, http://www.sxc.hu/photo/873928 • Image on Slide #9: sxc.hu, wagg66, http://www.sxc.hu/photo/61023 • Image on Slide #9: sxc.hu, mmagallan, http://www.sxc.hu/photo/308736 • Image on Slide #10: sxc.hu, lusi, http://www.sxc.hu/photo/731544 • Image on Slide #11: ucla.edu, http://www.studentretentioncenter.ucla.edu/sfiles/articletemplate7_clip_image001.jpg • Image on Slide #12: sxc.hu, thadz, http://www.sxc.hu/photo/852533 • Image on slide #13: sxc.hu, len-k-a, http://www.sxc.hu/photo/567599 • Image on slide #22: sxc.hu, xlucas, http://www.sxc.hu/photo/568426 • Image on slide #33: sxc.hu, Avolore, http://www.sxc.hu/photo/600705 • Image on slide #34: sxc.hu, ks, http://www.sxc.hu/photo/14765 • Image on slide #35: sxc.hu, winklerke, http://www.sxc.hu/photo/764237 • Image on slide #36: sxc.hu, blue_arim, http://www.sxc.hu/photo/659006 • Image on slide #38: sxc.hu, formicaFre, http://www.sxc.hu/photo/809171 • Image on slide #40: sxc.hu, winklerke, http://www.sxc.hu/photo/764237 • Image on slide #41: sxc.hu, vivre, http://www.sxc.hu/photo/723714

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