Get your team ready?

5.

Replace the sign on the table. Create a team name with

mascot using colored card stock.
Identify yourself and your role in the team by decorating your
hat with the fabric markers. Put your hat on.
Devise a plan. If an activity is done, how and who will execute
what?
Reflect to this coming school year. Who you are today, may be
who you will be for your team this year.
Getr done!

6.

For darker hats fabric paint is available, but it wont be dry to wear!

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Math Standards Awareness

Graceland Elementary
2008-2009

The Monotillation of Traxoline

Delivering Instruction and Questioning

It is very important that you learn about

traxoline. Traxoline is a new form of
zionter. It is monotilled in Ceristanna.
Ceristannians gristeriate large amount of
fevon and then bracter it to quasel
traxoline. Traxoline may well be one of
our most lukized snezlaus in the future
because of our zionter lescelidge.

Directions: Answer the following questions in complete sentences. Be

sure to use your best handwriting.

What is traxoline?
Where is traxoline monotilled?
How is traxoline quaselled?
Why is it important to know about
traxoline?

Students

Almost everyone scores a 100% in this test. However, no one

knows a thing about traxoline.
This is one reason why care should be taken when using
multiple-choice questions or questions that are simply rote
memorization with no indication of understanding. Also, why you
always want students to show their work and why you give partial
credit when the correct process is there.

Teacher

Like you, most students can answer these questions. They have
a set of well-developed strategies for producing correct answers
to questions that they do not understand.
While this is sometimes a useful skill, we aspire to more in our
mathematics classes.

(Seizing Opportunities,1997)

Students

Can you really answer questions correctly but have no clue as to

what is really happening?

Teacher

We must ask effective questions.

Literature and Math

Math-terpieces, the art of solving
problems by Greg Tang
Activity (white card stock)
Use colored pencils and 2 regular
markers

Teacher: What is an effective question?

It is a question that probes for deeper meaning and

often sets the stage for further questioning.
It fosters the development of critical thinking skills and
higher order capabilities.
It promotes problem-solving and understanding.
A good question is the principle component of
designing inquiry-based learning.

Teacher

If you only ask for answers, you might just get the
correct response, but no assurance that the student
understands the concept.
For example: What is 2*?(the students say 4)
What is 3*? (the students says 6)

Teacher
Develop mathematical thinking with
effective questions.
To help students build confidence and
rely on their own understanding, ask

Why is that true?

How did you reach that conclusion?
Does that make sense?
Can you make a model to show that?

Questions While Teaching

To help students learn to reason mathematically, ask

Is that true for all cases? Explain

Can you think of a counter example?
How would you prove that?
What assumptions are you making?

Questions While Teaching

To check student progress

Can you explain what you have done so far? What else is
there to do?
Why did you decide to use this method?
Can you think of another method that might have worked?
Is there another efficient strategy?
What do you notice when?
Why did you decide to organize your results like that?
Do you think this would work with other numbers?
Have you thought of all the possibilities? How can you be
sure?

Why Depth of knowledge?

Mechanism to ensure that the intent of

the standard and the level of student
demonstration required by that standard
matches the assessment items (required
under NCLB)

Webbs Depth of Knowledge

Level 1- Recall and Reproduction

Level 2- Skills and Concepts
Level 3- Strategic Thinking
Level 4- Extended Thinking

(look in packet to get explanation)

Rich Tasks
Webb Levels

Play game
Task A-K
Check our answers
Sample Tasks for classroom

Math vocabulary
Similarities and differences
Nursery rhymes (www.kinderplans.com)

Formative Assessment

Why assess students?

To gather evidence of learning.
To have a greater understanding of how to
instruct.
To motivate students and increase student
achievement.

Questions to ask before assessing

Why am I assessing?
What do I want my students to know?
How will I find out if they know it?
How will I communicate the results of my
assessment?
Who should be involved?

How do we assess?
Formative Assessment
Summative Assessment

Lets play sort

Assessment and The Learning Process

Assessment for learning

Assessment of learning

Assessment

Assessment for Learning

Teachers, students, and

parents are the primary
users
During learning
Used to provide information
on what and how to improve
student achievement
Purpose: improve learning
Continuous
Examples: peer assessment,
using rubrics with students,
descriptive feedback

Assessment of Learning

Teachers, principals,
supervisors, and policy
makers are the primary
users
After the learning
Used to rank and sort
students
Purpose: document
achievement standards
Primary motivator: threat of
punishment or promise of
reward.
Examples: final exams,
placement tests, state
assessments, unit tests

Quality Assessment
Five Keys to Quality Assessment

Identify the purpose

Clarify the targets

Where am I going

Use sound design

Provide effective feed

back

Where and I now

Involve students

How do close the gap?

Feedback from Assessments

Evaluative

Speaks to the
achievement and assigns
a letter. It expresses a
judgment.

Descriptive

Offers information about

the work, product, or
performance relative to
the intended learning.

Lets Mark (E) or (D)

Good job!
Sloppy work
How did you reach that conclusion? Wheres your data?
Proficient
E
Your calculations are inaccurate. Take another look at the appropriate
units for density.
CExcellent
You need to try harder next time. You can do it!
The students at station 2 are ready for the lab, they have their books
cleared and their safety glasses on.

Strategies for assessing

Traffic light

Card sort

Brainstorm

Round robin
reporting

Predictions

Performance
assessment

Highlight

Self
assessment

Peer
assessment

Think, pair,
share

Concept map

Reflection
survey

Assessment
probes

Drawing
completions

Sharing Time