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Assessment for Learning @ Reading for the Love of It Feb. 12 & 13, 2009 Faye Brownlie [email protected]

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Assessment for Learning�@�

Reading for the Love of It�Feb. 12 & 13, 2009

Faye Brownlie [email protected]

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I can understand and explain to others the concept of assessment for learning (AFL) and assessment of learning. 

I can iden;fy six big AFL prac;ces and describe classroom examples. 

I can determine a next step. 

LEARNING INTENTIONS 

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Assessment FOR Learning 

Purpose:  guide instruc;on, improve        learning 

Audience:  teacher and student 

Timing:    at the beginning, day by          day, minute by minute 

Form:    descrip;ve feedback 

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The Six Big AFL Strategies 

1.    Inten;ons 2.    Criteria 3.    Descrip;ve feedback 4.    Ques;ons 5.    Self and peer assessment 

6.    Ownership 

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Descriptive Feedback

•  What’s working?

•  What’s not?

•  What’s next?

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Model Guided practice Independent practice Independent

application 

Pearson & Gallagher (1983) 

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Lori Zawada & Faye Brownlie Grade 2/3

Tait Elementary Richmond

Learning Intentions

Questioning Descriptive Feedback Ownership

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Learning Intention:

•  I can examine a picture and infer what is happening

•  I can provide ‘because’ reasoning (evidence) for my inference

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•  Peter’s Poofect Pet ‐ Tina Powell 

•  www.bigfatpen.com 

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Learning Intentions – Kindergarten

 “OLI (our learning inten;on) tells us what we have to learn” 

“He is there to make sure we are learning       what we are supposed to” 

Think of ideas to

write about

OLI

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Criteria – K/1

What’s Next for This Beginning Writer? – Reid, Schultz, Petersen 

Big, Bold, Bright  Make a picture 

Tell some lebers you know 

Try some sounds you know 

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K-1 Writing: Model - pictures & print Refer to criteria Kids draw & write Refer to criteria 

Pearson & Gallagher (1983) 

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Gr. 3 Writing: Model – a small moment Establish criteria Kids write Descriptive feedback on

criteria Pearson & Gallagher (1983) 

Learning Intention: I can write and describe a small event from my morning.

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•  Choose a topic •  Write in front of the students •  Students describe ‘what works’ in your writing •  Students choose a ‘morning’ topic •  Students write •  Students self-assess •  Students meet with peers to share and provide

feedback

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All alone, I stepped into my car.  With my map in hand, I began to drive.  At the lights I turned lec, then the map said to turn right.  “Oh, no!”    The sign said, “Road closed”.      “Help,” I thought.  “What am I going to do?” 

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Notices…criteria

•  Mystery

•  Opening

•  Detailed

•  Sounds like you (Voice)

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TEACHER QUESTIONING

An open‐ended ques;on 

How can you show your number for our number 

book?  

Carole Saundry, Richmond SD 38 

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QUESTIONING – Grade 2/3

How do spiders eat? 

•  Grades 2 and 3  •  The teacher began the 

study by asking “What ques;ons do you have about spiders?” 

•  Students chose one ques;on a week to inves;gate by observing spiders and using informa;onal texts 

Science IRP/Grade 2/Life Science/Animal Growth and Change

Janice Novakowski, Richmond  

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QUESTIONING - Kindergarten

How does a ladybug hold on to a branch? 

•  Kindergarten students observe insect behaviour 

•  The teacher asks, “What are you wondering about?” 

Science IRP/Kindergarten/Life Science/Characteristics of Living Things

Janice Novakowski, Richmond  

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QUESTIONING – All Grades

     “Hands Down”  

Ask an open‐ended ques;on. 

Explain to the class that no one puts up his or her hand to answer the ques;on ‐ everyone is expected to respond when asked (even if it is only to say “I don’t have a response yet”). 

Give students ;me to meet with a partner and talk briefly about their thinking. 

Ask individual students or pairs of students to respond. 

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QUESTIONING – All Grades

• Present a picture 

• Ask students to pose ques;ons about the picture 

• Present a second picture 

• No;ce how ques;ons change as students link the pictures 

Student Diversity, 2nd ed. ‐ Brownlie, Feniak, Schnellert     

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Lori Johnson Grade 1

Coldstream Elementary Richmond

Learning Intentions

Self Assessment Descriptive Feedback Ownership

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Joni Cunningham Grade 2

Spul’u-kwuks Richmond

Writing portfolio Monthly samples Performance Standards Growth over time

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Lori Johnson Grade 1

Coldstream Elementary Richmond

Learning Intentions

Self Assessment Descriptive Feedback Portfolio Assessment

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Reading – Gr.1�March Portfolio – Lori Johnson,

Coldstream Elem., Vernon, BC •  I can read this book easily, stopping at the periods for a breath and 

also using some expression.  •   I can retell the story I have just read in my own words from 

beginning to end.    •  I can “make pictures or movies” in my head when I read a story that 

has no pictures.  Ask me to tell you about the pictures and feelings I had when Ms. Johnson read us “Big Al”.  Visualizing helps me understand beber.    

•  I can read by using sight words ( the words I know really well are highlighted on the list in the folder ) and I can also figure out new words by sounding out the lebers, then blending the lebers together.     

•  My goal for next term in reading is to ___________________  

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Writing – Gr. 1�March Portfolio, Lori Johnson, Coldstream Elem, Vernon, BC

•  Here is some of my latest wri;ng.  I can write about things that happen in my life.  Usually I print neatly, use fingerspaces and include details.  I have several words I can just spell easily, others I try to stretch by saying the sounds, then wri;ng the lebers down.   

•  I can read my wri;ng to you.  Thanks for listening.   •  I can tell you about my wri;ng – what criteria I am trying to meet as I wrote these pieces.     

•  I can tell you what I want to do next in my wri;ng.    •  My goal for next term in wri;ng is to _____________________________  

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SOCIAL STUDIES – FRIENDSHIP UNIT •  I can tell you the quali;es that make up a good friend.  Let’s do the Friendship Puzzle together.        

SCIENCE   •  I know how a leaf cuong can grow roots to become a plant.  Ask me to explain my “Plant Journal” to you.   

•  I can tell you how magnets work.  I know that magnets abract some things and not others.  I know they have a North and a South Pole.  I can explain my Magnet Map to you.  

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•  I can count by ones while doing ac;ons with my hands and feet.  I like to do something different on the fives and tens.    Let’s do it together!   

•  I can count this bag of _______ by first sor;ng it into groups of ______ on the coun;ng mat.   Sor;ng makes it easier to count big numbers.    

•  I can solve a problem using addi;on or subtrac;on.  I can show you how I do this using objects or pictures.  Here are some problems we can solve.     

•  I can look at a bunch of objects, then es;mate how many might be there.  It won’t be the exact number!  Let’s es;mate the  hearts on this paper using an elas;c as a “referent set”.     

•  I am learning my math facts by playing “Addi;on and Subtrac;on War”.  I can show you how to play.    

•  My goal for next term in math is to _____________________________  

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Formative assessment to determine students strengths and needs

Brownlie, Feniak & Schnellert, 2006; Earl & Katz, 2005; Schnellert, Butler & Higginson, in press; Smith & Wilhelm, 2006