https://padlet.com/srerpenbeck/nxpjwecoyovevg20 Reflections on Guest Mentors en-us 2022-05-06 22:16:56 UTC 2022-05-07 01:16:41 UTC hello@padlet.com srerpenbeck https://padlet.com/srerpenbeck/nxpjwecoyovevg20/wish/2173502561 1. Assessments give an accurate picture of where students are academically and social emotionally. 
2. Some tools shared: My idgs, Dial 4 Assessment, AEPS (family perspective).
3. Think both big picture and linearly on a day-to-day basis. What do you expect of your students at what time of day?
4. Create little systems and routines that work to take data quickly. Changes little things to make students more independent.
5. It's hard to assess many students in a short amount of time. Only can get an accurate picture of what each child can do if you spend intentional time looking at their skills (one-on-one).
6. Lean on the support of your community and the teachers around you; take the resources and supplies.
7. Book recommendation "Easy to Love, Difficult to Discipline" by Dr. Becky Bailey. Focuses on teaching self-regulation and social emotional skills to kids of all ages. Not just young kids.
8. Keep track of positive things or milestones that kids meet and what they can improve, as a way to assess social skills.

]]> 2022-05-06 22:35:46 UTC https://padlet.com/srerpenbeck/nxpjwecoyovevg20/wish/2173502561 srerpenbeck https://padlet.com/srerpenbeck/nxpjwecoyovevg20/wish/2173508038 1. Assessment is simply a procedure for making inferences. I am going to ask you to do something, I am going to observe, and I am going to make an inference based on my observations.
2. There are no valid assessments, only valid interpretations. 
3. Valid inferences are only limited to the assessment. 
4. Pace of class and engagement has to do with opportunities to respond. Keep opportunities to respond high and it will help with cognitive engagement. 
5. Assessments can change depending on level of mastery.
6. Design assessments strategically and with purpose.
7. Assessments have to be both reliable and valid.
8. Advice- teach to the test. What is it we want our students to know?
9. Book Recommendation: Teacher Clarity Playbook. The quality of your instruction is less about what you do and more about are your kids cognitively engaged. Practical examples to work through.

]]> 2022-05-06 22:49:39 UTC https://padlet.com/srerpenbeck/nxpjwecoyovevg20/wish/2173508038 srerpenbeck https://padlet.com/srerpenbeck/nxpjwecoyovevg20/wish/2173522928 1. Assessment is getting to know what the kids know and how I am going to use that information. What did you do today that the students took away with them? What do you need to focus more on and what have they already mastered?
2. Go-To Assessment Tools: Exit tickets, diagrams, labelling, peer assessments, white boards.
3. Make students do more so you will not have to. Have students assess each other sometimes.
4. Assessment results are what drives tomorrow's lesson.
5. Relationships, interactions, and rapport are what connects educators with their students. Knowing their personalities and backgrounds help the learning process and makes the classroom go smoother.
6. Talk about procedures and rules, so the students understand what is expected of them. Builds security when students know what to do.]]> 2022-05-06 23:23:57 UTC https://padlet.com/srerpenbeck/nxpjwecoyovevg20/wish/2173522928 srerpenbeck https://padlet.com/srerpenbeck/nxpjwecoyovevg20/wish/2173526394 1. Assessments are just sometimes observations. Use assessments to get a sense of where the students are at, where they need to go, and where did they end up.
2. Go-to assessment: white boards, sticky note, anchor chart, learning continuum, small groups.
3. The more focused small group assessments allows teachers to see how each student is performing. 
4. Begin with a starting point that is based on your standards and go from there depending on what the students need.
5. Collaborate with others. Brings in new information, resources, and ideas. 
6. Advice - do not walk alone. Collaborate with colleagues and team members. Go into other teacher's classrooms and see what activities they are doing. 
7. Love using Twitter as an educational resource and platform. It's a great tool to see what others are doing in their classrooms. Constantly look for new things to try. ]]> 2022-05-06 23:32:38 UTC https://padlet.com/srerpenbeck/nxpjwecoyovevg20/wish/2173526394 srerpenbeck https://padlet.com/srerpenbeck/nxpjwecoyovevg20/wish/2173530101 1. Uses both informal and formal assessments- ones based purely on observation and ones that are standardized. Uses Wyatt Assessments to determine eligibility for an IEP. Uses checklists for social skills. 
2. Younger kids with more complex behaviors need more anecdotal notes. Checklists help to make tallies and jotting down data quickly. 
3. Go to assessments: Running records, benchmark assessments for reading, and one-on-one assessments. Listening to a student read helps to determine what types of errors they are making and what skills they are lacking. 
4. Do not be bias and pre-judge. Use assessments validly to see where a student is at academically.
5. Advice - Keep the positive close. Try to stay away from the negativity, especially on social media. 
6. Take time to reflect on yourself and your teaching. See if there is room for improvement and where.]]> 2022-05-06 23:41:12 UTC https://padlet.com/srerpenbeck/nxpjwecoyovevg20/wish/2173530101 srerpenbeck https://padlet.com/srerpenbeck/nxpjwecoyovevg20/wish/2173555333 1. Assessment is a tool to determine what students know and what they are ready to learn next. It is not about how smart you are. It's a tool meant to help guide the teacher on what students are ready to learn.
2. Go to assessments: Short assessments for kindergarten because of their shorter attention spans. More hands-on assessments.
3. Create routines for younger students so they learn what to expect and what is expected from them.
4. Advice - Be extra nice to the receptionist and custodian. Listen to your team and colleagues. Take a risk and try something new if you think your students can handle it. Don't need to try to reinvent the wheel. Stay off your phone and be present for your students. Don't take yourself too seriously because you are going to mess up. 
5. Book recommendation- Out of My Mind by Sharon Draper; about a little disabled, non-verbal girl who is secretly a genius and no one can see past her disability. Any book that has representation.


]]> 2022-05-07 00:40:09 UTC https://padlet.com/srerpenbeck/nxpjwecoyovevg20/wish/2173555333 srerpenbeck https://padlet.com/srerpenbeck/nxpjwecoyovevg20/wish/2173558574 1. Assessments determine if students can apply the knowledge and if they can show that they understand the content. Assessments determine if students can show the teacher they understand the standard they are learning.
2. Break apart the standard and find out what it actually means. Break it into five essential questions, ideas, or thoughts. Go to assessments: projects and in writing.
3. Advice - start slow as a new teacher because you will be bombarded with new information in a short amount of time. Take a little piece that makes the most sense and do the best with that. After awhile, it becomes a routine. Smallest things can make the biggest impacts.
4. Book Recommendation - Culture Code; the culture of how you live and building your PLC is crucial for your own growth. ]]> 2022-05-07 00:48:32 UTC https://padlet.com/srerpenbeck/nxpjwecoyovevg20/wish/2173558574 srerpenbeck https://padlet.com/srerpenbeck/nxpjwecoyovevg20/wish/2173564493 1. Assessments are observations on what students are mastering and what educators can help with. The day to day of what you might be noticing about your students.
2. Go to assessments: small groups give teachers the opportunity to spend time with each student. This level of attention greatly helps build connection with students and helps identify their struggles and masteries. Students tend to take more risks in a small group and try new things.
3. Each student needs different things and have different learning styles. Teachers need to take the time to find what learning styles fit each students. 
4. Advice - Make relationships with students, the parents, colleagues, and staff members. Take the time to get to know your students, what they need, and how to build their confidence. Getting to know your students might help with behavioral problems.
5. Book Recommendation - The Gift of Dyslexia, helps teachers understand how to get through the day-to-day routines with dyslexic students. The Morning Meeting Book, easy read for educators that provides activities for the classroom. How to get students to work through the day.]]> 2022-05-07 01:01:22 UTC https://padlet.com/srerpenbeck/nxpjwecoyovevg20/wish/2173564493 srerpenbeck https://padlet.com/srerpenbeck/nxpjwecoyovevg20/wish/2173566861 1. Assessments are when you have a goal or objective that you want to meet and you have to asses whether or not you have been able to complete your goal. 
2. Go to assessments- Educator rubric, which has six standards and each standard has multiple indicators. Rubrics help to keep you more objective and tied to an actual standard. Create your own rubric so you can determine what are the standards you are asking students to master.
3. Advice - Have procedures and routines from day one. Establishing routines help teach students what to expect in the classroom and what is expected of them. Take the time at the beginning of the year to establish those routines and procedures.
4. Book Recommendation- Learning by Doing, high functioning PLCs learn to increased student learning. Follow the procedure of starting with a standard, breaking them down, writing engaging lessons, and assessing formatively and summatively.

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1. Assessments are an estimation of the quality or ability of something or someone. It is a piece of the full picture, and it is an estimation or predictor of success. Assessments do not have validity, only the interpretation of the assessment.
2. Go to assessments - MTS or RTI assessments to monitor progress with intervention. Formative assessments being more day-to-day, such as exit tickets. Cognitive assessments give a good idea of some of the underlying, deficit cognitive processes.
3. Advice - Respect your impact. Students are going to look to you to form a relationship, and that relationship and impact go a long way. Assessments are useful, but it goes back to ultimately intervention or what you will do with the information you get from assessments. 
4. Book Recommendation: Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman, looks at the information behind choice making and thinking patterns. You need to slow down and take yourself out of your intuition or instinctual thinking and look more towards the long plan or game.]]> 2022-05-07 01:16:41 UTC https://padlet.com/srerpenbeck/nxpjwecoyovevg20/wish/2173570651