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Learning Focused Strategies

Learning Focused Strategies . Assessment Prompts. Getting the Most from Assessment Prompts. What are assessment prompts? Why should teachers use assessment prompts? How do you develop assessment prompts?. What are Assessment Prompts?. Frequent opportunities to check student learning

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Learning Focused Strategies

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  1. Learning Focused Strategies Assessment Prompts

  2. Getting the Most from Assessment Prompts • What are assessment prompts? • Why should teachers use assessment prompts? • How do you develop assessment prompts?

  3. What are Assessment Prompts? • Frequent opportunities to check student learning • Specific content, knowledge and skills students are expected to learn • Formative assessments distributed throughout the lesson • Opportunities for distributed summarizing • Tools to provide specific feedback about learning • A direct connection to the K-U-D

  4. Assessment Prompts Are.. • Measurable • Specific • Focused on learning before teaching • Guidelines for future teaching decisions • Guidelines for differentiation • Opportunities to summarize • Directly connected to instruction

  5. Activity Read pages 2-5 Twos tell ones the three distinct assessment Prompt planning events that must occur in order to have highly successful learning taking place during instruction. Ones report out to group

  6. Activity • Specify 2-4 concepts that students will need to know and/or do to be able to successfully answer the Lesson Essential Question • Decide how you will assess the identified Assessment Prompts • Have a basic idea of how you are going to use the information collected from the assessment prompts

  7. Why Use Assessment Prompts? Provide immediate feedback to you and your students Measure the depth and breadth of student learning Help build confidence and competence Inform next steps in teaching

  8. Why are Assessment Prompts Important? • Students need feedback as they are learning • Students need to be clear about what they are learning throughout the entire process

  9. Activity We have been discussing using assessment prompts during your lesson. Ones clarify two reasons for your partner that makes using assessment prompts so important. Twos will report to the group in three minutes.

  10. How can I use Assessment Prompts? • Providing feedback • Collecting data • Distributing summarizing/practice • Benchmarking • Adjusting instruction • Eliminating misconceptions • Getting students more involved

  11. Creating Assessment Prompts • Ask “What do students need to know, be able to do and understand in order to answer the LEQ” • Divide that learning into segments of instruction • Chunk instruction into segments that lead to each assessment prompt

  12. Creating Assessment Prompts • Determine the topic of an assessment prompt for each section • Plan each segment of instruction to give opportunities to construct the meaning needed to answer the assessment prompt

  13. Creating Assessment Prompts 6. Determine specific strategies for each of the assessment prompts, varying the formats

  14. Assessment Prompts in Lessons Activating Strategy Instruction Instruction Instruction Summarizing Strategy ASSESSMENT PROMPTS

  15. REMEMBER…. LFS lessons are planned to cover 1-3 days of instruction. Assessment prompts are good starting and stopping points Use a variety of exemplary teaching strategies prior to each planned assessment prompt

  16. Assessment Prompt Examples

  17. Exemplary Strategies • Think-Pair-Share • Think-Ink-Pair-Share • Summary Point • Writing to a prompt • Think-Draw-Pair-Share • Diagram and Label • Story board • Identify main idea • Wordsplash • Vanity Tag • Carousel Brainstorming • Thumbs up/Thumbs down

  18. What? What? Why? ASSESSMENT PROMPT Looks like…. Should

  19. FAQ Am I supposed to test my students all the time? Assessment prompts can take on many forms. Utilize oral response, written response, graphic organizer completion and discussion techniques to continuously assess for understanding without “testing” students in the formal sense of the word.

  20. FAQ How much more time will this add to my lessons? Even if it does add a small amount of time to the initial lesson, it is time well spent. Assessing students several times throughout a lesson saves in re-teaching time later. Additionally, both students and teachers are clear on whether or not the intended learning has occurred.

  21. FAQ What do I do when students are not prepared to move on? If students have not learned what was intended, stop and do what is necessary to deal with the identified discrepancy. If the knowledge and skills identified as critical have not been learned, you must stop and provide alternative instruction or practice.

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