Monday, August 31, 2015

Moving Learning Forward One Step At A Time

 If you are looking for my testing resource page - you can find it here:
 http://iteachbay.blogspot.com/p/onls-ngas-2014-15.html
"Put one foot in front of the other and soon you'll be walking cross the floor. Put one foot in front of the other and soon you'll be walking out the door."  This song refrain from one of my favorite holiday shows, Santa Claus Is Coming To Town, is appropriate for this start of the school year.

It is easy to get caught up in the procedural side of education and lose sight of what has to happen in a classroom to move learning forward.  What are the steps you can take to help your students grow their learning or grow your own learning? Pick one step to start!


Clean Out Your Assessment Closet




  • What evidence of learning does this assessment collect for me or for my students?
  • How does this assessment match to the standards I am teaching
  • Where does this assessment fall in the continuum of assessment in my classroom - from formative to summative?
  • What can I do to revise this assessment to build in more stretch?





    •  Resources for Assessment Literacy:
    Use Informational Text To Help Students Build Knowledge
    • What texts, including print, digital,  video, audio and graphics, are you using in your classroom?
    • How are you building academic and content area vocabulary through a variety of texts?
    • What opportunities are you building into your lessons to allow students to interact with the text and each other?
    • Are the texts you are using appropriately complex for your students? 
    Resources for Informational Text
    Build A Professional Learning Network For You & Your Students
    • What doors can you open that will allow you or your students to connect with others who share similar interests or passions for learning?
    • How can you use technology to help you to collaborate on student learning or help students collaborate with each other around their learning?
    • What learning networks are you already a part of? How can you continue to make the focus of those discussions around "moving learning forward"?
    • What do you want to learn more about? What steps do you need to take to make that happen?
    Resources for Professional Learning Networks & Student Collaboration
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