Student Response System (SRS) Activity

Name:Cassandra O'Brien
Grade Level: 4th Grade
Content Area: English Language Arts
Standards Addressed: ELAGSE4RL5: Explain major differences between poems,
drama, and prose, and refer to the structural elements of poems (e.g., verse,
rhythm, and meter) and drama (e.g., casts of characters, settings, descriptions,
dialogue, stage directions) when writing or speaking about a text.
Student Response Technology Used:
Quizlet
NearPod
Socrative
PollEverywhere
iRespond
TodaysMeet
Other: type here
Technology that Students will use to respond to questions/prompts:
Computer
Hand-held student response system (such as i-Respond)
Phone
Tablet (such as iPad)
Other wireless device (such as iPod
Touch)
Describe the instructional activities that will occur prior to the SRS
Activity and how you will introduce the SRS Activity: Prior to this activity
we will be discussing drama and poems, and the differences between them. The
students will know the definitions that go with each element, for example stage
directions and casts of characters go with drama, while verse and rhythm go with
poems.
Describe the purpose of the SRS activity (Check all that apply)
Assess Prior Knowledge
Anticipatory Set (Create Interest in a Topic)
To
Illuminate Common Misconceptions
Formative Assessment of Content
Knowledge (for purposes of differentiation and mastery for ALL students!)
Summative Assessment of Content Knowledge
Test Preparation
Survey/Poll
Discussion Starter
Homework Collection
Other
Additional explanation of purpose (optional): type here
Type of session:

Teacher-Paced

Student-Paced

Identification of students:
Students will log-in so their individual scores will be available to you after the
session
SRS Activity will be anonymous
Briefly describe what will happen during the SRS Activity (For example:
What will students do? What will teacher do? What materials are needed? How
long will the SRS activity take?):
Students will log into socrative and take the quiz I created over the standard of
poems vs. drama, and I will receive feedback to know if the students understand
what I am trying to teach them. I would have already created the quiz prior to
them taking it, and during the quiz I will observe the students to see if they are
struggling or flying through the quiz. The only materials needed is a computer for
the children to log into socrative, and their brains for them to take the quiz. The
SRS activity should not take the students more than 20 minutes, considering
there are only 8 questions for them to answer.
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Blooms Level of Critical Thinking Required (check all that apply). See
http://epltt.coe.uga.edu/index.php?title=Bloom%27s_Taxonomy

Remembering
Understanding
Applying
Analyzing
Evaluating
Creating
Types of Questions/Prompts (Check all that Apply):
Multiple-choice
Multiple Select
True/False
Yes/No
Short Open-ended
response or fill-in-blank
Longer open-ended response
Provide samples of questions/prompts to be given to students:
Above the lesson plan is the quiz that the students will be taking.
Right/Wrong Answers: Will there be right/wrong answers to these questions? :
Yes
No
Mixed (Some will have correct answers, others will not.)
Immediate Corrective Feedback:
Will you pre-select correct answers to some or all of the questions and display the
correct response to the class after the SRS activity?
Yes
No
Why or why not? I do not need the students to look in on other students for their
grade, if they want to know their grade they need to come to me individually and
I will tell them. I do not believe in humilating students when it comes to getting a
bad grade cause they where having a bad day, or where absent during
instruction.
Use of Data: What data will be collected as a result of this activity. How will it be
used and by whom? (For example: Will information collected from this activity be
used to award a grade? Will the individual information collected be shared with
students and/or parents to help them monitor individual progress? Will you
discuss the aggregate, anonymous data with the whole class to help them learn?
Will you use data to differentiate instruction for students? If so, describe how. )
The data collected will be used by me to see if the students are understanding the
concept of poems and drama. I will use this data to adjust my teaching, so those
that do not understand will be able to understand or at least get a better tackle
on the subject. I will use this quiz as a grade because it is given after the
material is taught, so it is a formative assessment. This will also be used in
confrences to show parents what the child is doing in classrooms, and how they
are faring when it comes to quizes, and the fact they could be under pressure and
may not do as well because of it. I will discuss the data to the whole class to help
them learn, I will not show names but I will discuss what is happening as far as
patterns I see of what students do not understand (for example everyone got
question 3 wrong, then we will go over it in more detail). I will use the data to
differentiate instruction by seeing the scores, I can go back to their prior
knowledge and scaffold so everyone is at the same place. Everyone starts
differently, so I need to differentiate my instruction to fit their needs so they can
become successful, and getting the scores will help me with that.
Describe what will occur after the SRS activity: After the SRS activity I will
critique it, and see if the students are understanding. If the students need help
with a particular question I will go over it in more detail for them. If the students
need further instruction in general, I will shift my approach and teach the material
in a different way so the students can understand. If most students understand I
will move on, but to those few that still do not understand I will work on a more
one on one level, so they can understand.
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Describe your personal learning goal for this activity. (For example: What
are you trying that you have not tried before? What do you hope to learn from
this activity? How do you hope it will help students learn? You must design
something that will help you learn something new! Honor System!) I am trying to
use technology into my assessments which I have not done before. Usually my
assessments involve tests, ticket out the doors, and open ended discussions
which incoporates what the students know through talking about the subject. This
assessment gives instant feedback, and helps me with the students as far as
helping them with the subject without the hassel of waiting for the outcome of
grading. I hope to learn from this activity the user friendly aspects of technology
and how to incoporate it in not only teaching but into assessing, to see if the
students truly understand. It will help the students learn through a fun interactive
approach, which helps students stay focus on the questions which used to be just
paper and pencil.
Other comments about your SRS Activity (optional): I love these tools that I
learned, which can help me teach and assess my students efficiently. I hope to
pass on the knowledge to others as well, so the students can learn from me that
technology, when used properly, can be quite an extrodinary thing.