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Resources
*Thinking Fast and Slow
*Learning Disabilities
*When I am Little Again

"Kids are people and respect goes both ways!"

**What is assessment?
It is an estimation of the quality or nature of something. A snap shot of a child on that day in that particular state. It is not an end all be all, it is a piece of a pie. There is not an assessment out there that tells you what you need to know but its an evaluation of what the assessment says.

Go to Assessments?
"Look at assessment as an continuum of the student"
-Formative assessment
-End of the day exit tickets
-NTSS or RTI

New Teacher Advice: respect your impact. Students are going to look to you to form relationships and that impact goes a long way. All road lead back to intervention

Assessments are great but its what you do with the knowledge that will make an impact

Nouns are nice but verbs are better, its all about action.

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Resources
*Despite the Best Intention
*Morning Meeting Book
*The Gift of Dyslexia

What is assessment?
Make observations daily! What are they mastering and what are they still struggling with. Its not allows the paper pencil but more day to day

Go to Assessments:
- Small groups: allows to get small groups time with the teacher. We have to see how we can challenge the higher level students

Work smarter not harder
Be a team, use your team and noticed what they are confident in and share the work load

Advice for a new teacher
You need to make relationships, with your students, teachers and families. Those relationships create better classroom environments. Find out what those kids love

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Where you start is not where you will end!

What is assessment?
Can students apply the knowledge or do they show they can use what they are being taught?

Make sure students apply the knowledge to something that is similar because we want the knowledge to be transferred and how it works across the board not just one subject matter

When you give them the opportunities to show you that they are growing in that certain
If you give them a final grade the learning stops so we want them to have opportunities to continue to grow

Things you wish you knew before:
-Planning with your lesson, start with your standards and what do they actually mean or what does it look like
-How if it is applied what would it look like
-Break it down into five essential questions or thought
-Never keep it a secret let them know your essential questions and thoughts

Design independent moments where they can own their own assessment

Smarter not Harder:
*Go slow to start,  because it can be overwhelming
*What is something you can do tomorrow to make in impact, something small

Build equity within your system. That is key to creating relationships with your students.

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Kindergarten Teacher: Very Hands-on and quick and on your feet!

Rituals and Routines - Show me what you KNOW

How to Work Smarter not Harder?
-Work Life Balance is key, set boundaries and creating a schedule for when you plan. Working ahead helps you prepare for the next day
-Team work makes the dream work, share the workload

Advice to a New Teacher:
-Be extra nice to the secretary and the custodian.
-Listen to your team and your coworkers, its about succeeding as a group
-Take a risk but do not reinvent the wheel
-Stay off your phone, your students need to see you
-Do not take yourself too seriously, you will mess up

-Leave your home problems at the door

**Power of Words**

Books/Podcast:
*Out of my Mind - Sharon Draper

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What is an assessment?
Any time of your life, where you have goal or objective and you have to see whether or not you have completed this goal. Either seeing how close you are or that you've finished

Go to assessments:
Educator rubric - keeps you more objective and on task with what is meaningful. Create your own to be particular and match your expectations for performance.

Work Smarter not Harder:
-Rubric hold you accountable and there is not guessing games. The expectations are written out and easy.
-We do not have to have massive amounts of homework but instead use formative assessments to quickly identify where students are struggling and how to adjust to their struggles.

Have procedures and routines from DAY 1!

Having routines creates safety, they know what to expect in your classroom .

Resources:
*Learning by Doing: high functioning PLC will lead to increased student learning
*Excellence in Every Classroom: discuses what skills need to be in place for students to achieve at a high level.

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What is an assessment?
Different then a classroom teacher, she floats and ranges anywhere from observation to curriculum based measures

Go to assessments:
-FMP: benchmark assessment, decides what level they are on
-Behavior Snap: ABC data and graphs

Work Smarter not Harder:
She is a resource teacher, 30 min time periods with students. Using the resources that are given and experience. Look at your veteran teacher

Do not reinvent the wheel!

Uses of Social Media: be very carful who you surround yourself with. Right now its very negative about education but try to look at the positive. Know you true north compass and why you are doing this

Resources:
Filter out the "stuff" and opinions of others
Have time to yourself to reflect on why you're doing this

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What is an Assessment?
Show me what you know. Assessment in Elementary is constant, from the moment they walk into the door. Figuring where are we going, where do we need to go and where did we end up?

Know you have a standard tool and looking at all kids on the same bases.

Go To Assessments:
- Learning Continuing in Math used to group kids and see where they are.
- Small Groups: seeing them in front of you and seeing how they are learning.

**YOU NEED TO KNOW YOUR KIDS**

How to Work Smarter not Harder:
Collaborations, it is not about you. You have a team for a reason they will help you bounce ideas off of.

Advice for a New Teacher:
Do not walk alone, you learn so much going into others classroom and learning there techniques

Resources:
*Twitter - seeing other schools and classroom/teacher =, a glance into other classrooms
*Expanding your learning strategies
*Core Books the stay with you and do not change: How Do You Hug a Porcupine (behavior Books)

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What is an assessment?
Getting to know what the kids know and how you, the teacher, will use the information of what they know. What did you do today that they took away or that they miss?

Go To Assessments:
-Exit tickets: jot down something to show that they were listing and got the material.
*Quick Assessment is the best Assessment: The goal is to find a way to tell you if they got it and you can move on or if their needs to be more time spent on the lesson.*

Relationships are everything in the classroom and its important to acknowledge SEL in your classroom.

Greatest Advice for New Teachers:
-Build a relationship with your students: showing interest in the students and making those connections, sitting with them and working with them.
-Procedure: go slow to go fast, you can never do too many procedures. When they know exactly what to expect they feel more secure and they know what to expect.

Why Teach?
Smiles on the students face. Getting the students interested in learning.

Room Tour, Interesting Inclusions:
-Students individual/All about me section
-Wondering Wall: if the students have a thought or question during the lesson they put it on the wondering wall to be brought back up later for more explanation.
Layover Activities: activities they can do when they are finished early and its displayed in the class.
NES: displayed what is need for that day to avoid constant questioning

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**Whatever you inference is, it can only go as far as your assessment. Its important to understand the validly of your interpretation**

Go To Assessment:
-Whiteboards: active participation and cognitive engagement
-Reteach: scaffolding and seeing if the students can go back and actively use what they have learned

Understand the Purpose of the Assessment
- can the shield be flexible in their teaching
- Validity
- Reliability

Greatest Advice: teach to the test,
*Start with the assessment, what the students need to know and then how do we design instruction to get there?

Why teach?
It will not be until you meet your kids that you realize your purpose as an educator

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Assessment - gives an accurate picture of where your students are academically and social-emotionally.

Go To Assessment -
*MyIGDI: younger kids
*APES - involves families/their perspectives

How do you Work Smarter not Harder - create routines inside of routines, establish expectations, create more independent students and systems you can set up for student success.

**Self-Regulation - Just as important for older as younger students**