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8th Annual Rowan Literacy Consoritum 2013-2014. Dr. Midge Madden and Dr. Valarie Lee OCTOBER 4th Session. Meet Midge Madden. Guatemala. Family. Midge Madden. Coalition for Essential Schools Qualitative Practitioner Research Seminar in Reading Writing Interests Writing Instruction
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8th Annual Rowan Literacy Consoritum 2013-2014 Dr. Midge Madden and Dr. Valarie Lee OCTOBER 4th Session
Meet Midge Madden Guatemala Family
Midge Madden • Coalition for Essential Schools • Qualitative Practitioner Research • Seminar in Reading • Writing Interests • Writing Instruction • Critical Literacies • 21st Century literacies
Getting to Know Valarie Lee • A serious researcher who laughs … and likes ice cream! • Published author – JAAL and Information Age Press • High School English Teacher from Colorado • Rowan’s Content Literacy guru
Expert on Boys: Author, Researcher, and Family Peacemaker My Three Sons
Get to know each other: Bio Poems Team name Members... Four traits that describe the team... Relative of.. Lovers of... Who feel... Who need... Who give... Who would like to see... Resident of... Team name
What RLC is….. • constructivist in nature • inquiry community • sustained, ongoing intensive work • participant-driven • collaborative • teacher network
Our Theme for the Year Effective Writing Instruction and Formative Assessment in the Common Core
What are elements of effective formative assessments? Classroom Vignettes • Each team member read a vignette • Share vignettes as a team • Discuss details in the vignettes you consider elements of effective elements of formative assessment
All too often, the term “formative assessment” conjures images of quizzes and tests, while in reality, formative assessment is a process used by teachers and students during instruction that provides feedback to adjust ongoing teaching and learning.
Successful Implementation of Formative Assessments • Clarifying, sharing, and understanding learning intentions and criteria for success • Engineering effective classroom discussions, activities, and learning tasks that elicit evidence of learning • Providing feedback that moves learning forward • Activating learners as instructional resources for one another • Activating learners as owners of their own learning -(Dylan Wiliam)
Implementing formative assessment as a process Shawn:“I used to do a lot of explaining, but now I do a lot of questioning. I used to do a lot of talking, but now I do a lot of listening. I use to think about teaching the curriculum, but now I think about teaching the student.” -(Heritage, 2010, p. 4).
Globe and Mail Article Quickwrite: What do you think?
Believing Game • Identify the author’s claim. • Using your T-chart, record your beliefs • Make only statements that support the author’s claim. Find and speak from places in yourselves that honestly connect with him. • After everyone’s finished, discuss. Work hard at believing as much of the argument as you can. • Record these for the group on chart paper.
Guiding Questions for Believing What is interesting or helpful about this view? What would you notice if you believed this view? In what sense or under what conditions might these ideas be true? How can this view possibly be right? Avoid disagreeing or making negative or challenging statements.
Debrief What did you notice about the statements and questions? Did the experience affect your point of view, even if only slightly? How? or Why not? “Certainty is rarely if ever possible and we increase the likelihood of getting things wrong if we succumb to the hunger for it.” -Peter Elbow
Looking ahead…. Team Focus Area Midpoint Sharing: Team focus/work on Wordpress in November and December. Consultancy Protocol to get feedback from other teams End: Team Digital product you can amplify
Peeling the Onion Protocol • Select presenter who will take notes and not participate in discussion • Presenter: Scribe the focus as it is now • Layer One: Listening and Peeling • Layer Two: Peeling and Probing • Getting to the Core • Presenter responds using question prompts • Chart the question or dilemma for team focus
RLC Word Presshttp://rowanliteracyconsortium.org • District Team Names including grade levels • Picture of team with caption of names • Team Dilemma and/or focus • Send to willi9db@students.rowan.edu
Our Speakers for 2013-2014 Steven Zemelman Sarah Brown Wessling
Exit Slip Send Tweet to @RowanLitC What did you get from today? What do you need from us to help you understand these dilemmas surrounding writing and assessment? #Needtoknow