Formative Assessment: Planning for Learning Academic Coaches Meeting MILWAUKEE PUBLIC SCHOOLS

1. Formative Assessment: Planning for Learning Academic Coaches Meeting MILWAUKEE PUBLIC SCHOOLS Lee Ann Pruske Mary Mooney March 15, 2013

2. Formative Assessment Definition An 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 that would have been made in the absence of that evidence. Dylan Wiliam, 2011

3. Professional practice • Find your best example of a learning intention. • Use this piece to complete at least 2 grade level posters.

5. Li/sc • We are learning to use the formative assessment process to plan for learning. • We will know we are successful when we can implement a plan to develop classroom based planning for learning with teachers.

6. FINDing out what students know “…-teachers almost always plan the instructional activities in which they will engage their students, but they rarely plan in detail how they are going to find out where the students are in their learning.” D. Wiliam, p.71 What are the teachers in your school doing to plan for learning?

7. Looking at student work • Use the student work to identify misconceptions. • Discuss possible reasons for these misconceptions.

8. Where do student ideas come from • What is a misconception? • Where does it come from?

9. using misconceptions • Turn and Talk about decisions around misconceptions to plan for learning.

11. Feedback question • How might you connect your work with Learning Intentions and Success Criteria and misconceptions generated by examining student work to improve planning for learning with teachers in your building?

12. Professional practice • Work with one teacher on the formative assessment process. Elicit, interpret, make decisions about the next steps in instruction, and implement those decisions with students. • Prepare a short vignette around the work with teachers and students to share at the April ACM meeting.

13. 5 key strategies of Formative Assessment • 1. Clarifying, sharing, and understanding learning intentions • 2. Engineering effective classroom discussions, activities, and learning tasks that elicit evidence of learning • 3. Providing feedback that moves learning forward. • 4. Activating learners as instructional resources for one another. • 5. Activating learners as the owners of their own learning. Leahy, Lyon, Thompson & William, 2005

14. Milwaukee Public Schools TITLE OF PRESENTATION MPS Board of School Directors Dr. Michael Bonds, PresidentLarry Miller, Vice President Mark Sain, District 1 Jeff Spence, District 2 Annie Woodward, District 4 Dr. Peter Blewett, District 6 David Voeltner, District 7 Meagan Holman, District 8 Terrence Falk, At-Large Senior Team Dr. Gregory Thornton, Superintendent Naomi Gubernick, Chief of Staff Darienne Driver, Chief Innovation Officer Tina Flood, Executive Director, Curriculum and Instruction Dr. Karen Jackson, Chief Human Resources Officer Michelle Nate, Chief Operations Officer Gerald Pace, Esq., Chief Financial Officer Anita Pietrykowski, Director, School Administration Denise Callaway,Communications & Partnerships Patricia Gill, Executive Director, Family Services Sue Saller, Coordinator to the Superintendent