Bill edited Building on the Collaborative Foundation - FUSD

Metaphorical Rating Activity
To help students master the skills of assessing their own progress towards mastering subjective tasks, it is often necessary to provide them with exemplars representing different levels of performance. Doing so helps students to recognize their own level of performance on tasks that they may not be familiar with. These materials represent session presenter Bill Ferriter's efforts to make sets of expectations for a subjective task explicit for his students. Would developing similar materials be a productive task for learning teams to tackle?
Session 5: Five Tips for Integrating Unit Overview Sheets into the Work of Your School
No single practice is more important for improving the early work of PLCs than the development of unit overview sheets. That means it is ESSENTIAL that coaches, principals and teacher liasions understand their role in supporting teams as they develop unit overview sheets. In this portion of the workshop, participants will be introduced to a series of five tips that can guide their work while pushing the notion of unit overview sheets forward in their buildings.
Session 6: Simple Tips for Making Common Formative Assessment Doable
Once learning teams have developed unit overview sheets to use to guide their instruction and planning, they are ready to move on to question 2 of a professional learning community: How will we know that our students are learning. That requires teams to begin tracking progress by both student and standard. Some of the following tools and protocols may help to make that work more doable.
Resources:
Mastery Connect- Tool for delivering traditional assessments and tracking progress by student and by standard.
Socrative- Tool for collecting all kinds of information during the course of regular instruction.
Plickers- Tool that makes collecting information during the course of regular instruction doable in classrooms with limited access to technology.
Class Dojo- Tool originally designed for classroom management, but that can be easily tailored for recording observations of student performance as well.
Once your learning team has collected information on student performance, it is time to begin having conversations about what that information means. Taking action on information is the essential next step after a formative assessment has been given. The following tools and templates may help to structure learning team conversations around data -- a critical step towards making learning about learning safe for everyone.
Data Meeting PlanandData Meeting Protocol- One of session presenter Bill Ferriter's favorite resources on common formative assessment isCommon Formative Assessment - A Toolkit for Professional Learning Communitieswritten by assessment experts Kim Bailey and Chris Jakicic. In the text, Bailey and Jakicic share tons of resources, including the Data Meeting Plan and Data Meeting Protocol linked above. Both tools are direct, simply structured, and easy to follow -- making data meetings approchable for every learning team.
Session 7:Working on Sample Templates
The greatest takeway from this two-day workshop will be samples of unit overview sheets that can be used to guide the early work of learning teams. In this portion of the workshop, participants will (1). review the sample unit overview sheets shared by session presenter Bill Ferriter, (2). decide on -- or create -- a template to pitch to teachers back in their buildings and (3). develop a few samples to use in the work that they are doing back in their buildings.

from Digitally Speaking
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