My dazzling wall about assessment by B Woodward https://padlet.com/beth_o_woodward/zos4reoovv1l Made with mirth en-us 2018-07-19 13:06:33 UTC 2024-07-23 00:37:03 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Diskette.png Teaching through the camera lens: 10 activities with photosand video 📹 beth_o_woodward https://padlet.com/beth_o_woodward/zos4reoovv1l/wish/270625979 2018-07-19 13:10:01 UTC https://padlet.com/beth_o_woodward/zos4reoovv1l/wish/270625979 Ditch That: beth_o_woodward https://padlet.com/beth_o_woodward/zos4reoovv1l/wish/270626187 Take personalized pictures of class content with photos from students’ world. For most material covered in class, there’s a connection to students’ lives or the world at large. Students are like your on-the-spot journalists for your class. Encourage them to take pictures of something that illustrates what you’re learning. Then display those images to their classmates. That’s a step toward student-driven learning.

4. Shoot a breaking news report with a video. Give students the reporter’s microphone and let them shoot a breaking news report — real or fictitious — about your content. Let them pretend they’re witnessing Custer’s Last Stand or the final scene in the novel you’re reading. It will encourage them to describe it accurately and dig into the details of what they’re learning.

]]> 2018-07-19 13:12:16 UTC https://padlet.com/beth_o_woodward/zos4reoovv1l/wish/270626187 Found Poems beth_o_woodward https://padlet.com/beth_o_woodward/zos4reoovv1l/wish/270626515 My second thinking routine is the Found Poem routine 

]]> 2018-07-19 13:16:42 UTC https://padlet.com/beth_o_woodward/zos4reoovv1l/wish/270626515 Thinking Routines: beth_o_woodward https://padlet.com/beth_o_woodward/zos4reoovv1l/wish/270626662 Abbie Driver WGRESA:  Found Poems  
This strategy allows students to re-think a piece of literature--whether it is an actual poem or not--by breaking it down into its most important parts and rearranging those parts to make new meaning and new order. I like how this strategy brings in a creative element to the act of simply interpreting a text. Often more creative students zone out when we are summarizing a text, but the Found Poem would certainly engage them in a new way.

Mabry Blevins: "What Makes You Say That?" 

We are constantly asking our students to  to make connections and prove their thinking but I have found over the years that some kids do not like to be questioned.  Instead of taking those questions as an opportunity to think differently, a lot of students assume they are wrong and either shut down or become defensive to argue their points.   My hope is that by including this thinking routine in regularly, my students will begin to ask themselves and others these questions as a way of pushing themselves to dig deeper. 

I Used to Think But Now I Think

After spending a lot of quality time with "See, Think, Wonder", the next thinking routine I am planning to use is "I Used to Think but Now...."   The power of "I Used to Think" is that students use evidence to track their thinking as it develops. What do you know about the Great Depression, I ask to start a whole class discussion.  (If I use the timer, it's officially a 'retrieval learning' activity known as a brain dump.)  From the range of answers, we can focus on one or two such as the impact of the boll weevil. "I Used to Think" is particularly suited to hands-on work with primary sources in social studies.]]> 2018-07-19 13:17:57 UTC https://padlet.com/beth_o_woodward/zos4reoovv1l/wish/270626662 Thinking Routines beth_o_woodward https://padlet.com/beth_o_woodward/zos4reoovv1l/wish/270627437 2018-07-19 13:25:18 UTC https://padlet.com/beth_o_woodward/zos4reoovv1l/wish/270627437 See Think Wonder beth_o_woodward https://padlet.com/beth_o_woodward/zos4reoovv1l/wish/270627548 2018-07-19 13:26:36 UTC https://padlet.com/beth_o_woodward/zos4reoovv1l/wish/270627548 Barbara Bishop Quotes: beth_o_woodward https://padlet.com/beth_o_woodward/zos4reoovv1l/wish/270627651 The kids should be living K/W/L charts in the sense that they should be able to use the learned concepts and info. to describe how their thinking has changed throughout the learning process.]]> 2018-07-19 13:27:53 UTC https://padlet.com/beth_o_woodward/zos4reoovv1l/wish/270627651 Headlines beth_o_woodward https://padlet.com/beth_o_woodward/zos4reoovv1l/wish/270627905 2018-07-19 13:31:44 UTC https://padlet.com/beth_o_woodward/zos4reoovv1l/wish/270627905 Transcription Projects beth_o_woodward https://padlet.com/beth_o_woodward/zos4reoovv1l/wish/270628430 2018-07-19 13:38:12 UTC https://padlet.com/beth_o_woodward/zos4reoovv1l/wish/270628430 Edutopia - 53 ways to check for understanding beth_o_woodward https://padlet.com/beth_o_woodward/zos4reoovv1l/wish/270640241 2018-07-19 16:02:21 UTC https://padlet.com/beth_o_woodward/zos4reoovv1l/wish/270640241 Dipsticks beth_o_woodward https://padlet.com/beth_o_woodward/zos4reoovv1l/wish/270642079 2018-07-19 16:31:32 UTC https://padlet.com/beth_o_woodward/zos4reoovv1l/wish/270642079 Retrieval Learning: Cumulative Exams beth_o_woodward https://padlet.com/beth_o_woodward/zos4reoovv1l/wish/270644672
Our recommendations to make cumulative exams more powerful with small tweaks for you and your students:

  • Cumulative exams are good, but encourage even more spacing and discourage cramming with cumulative mini-quizzes throughout the semester, not just as an end-of-semester exam.
  • Be sure that cumulative mini-quizzes, activities, and exams include similar concepts that require careful discrimination from students, not simply related topics.
  • Make sure you are using spacing and interleaving as learning strategies and instructional strategies throughout the semester, not simply as part of assessments and cumulative exams.
]]> 2018-07-19 17:14:25 UTC https://padlet.com/beth_o_woodward/zos4reoovv1l/wish/270644672 It’s Not About the Right Answer: Using Primary Sources to Help Students Ask the Right Questions beth_o_woodward https://padlet.com/beth_o_woodward/zos4reoovv1l/wish/270644938 DPLA opens up all new possibilities of discovery that will democratize my students’ access to history, from the people and voices that are often marginalized to the cultural heritage treasures that might be hidden in plain sight at a local public library or archive where we didn’t even know to look.  ]]> 2018-07-19 17:19:52 UTC https://padlet.com/beth_o_woodward/zos4reoovv1l/wish/270644938 Questions, tasks, and resources. Oh, my! Covering content using the C3 IDM beth_o_woodward https://padlet.com/beth_o_woodward/zos4reoovv1l/wish/270645261 fter five years, most Kansas teachers are at least aware that we’re asking them and students to approach teaching and learning differently.

That we want students to have both foundational knowledge and historical / critical thinking skills. That social studies classrooms need to be more than drill and kill, lecture, worksheet, quiz on Friday. And that creating engaged, informed, and knowledgeable citizens requires more than rote memorization and low level thinking.]]> 2018-07-19 17:25:15 UTC https://padlet.com/beth_o_woodward/zos4reoovv1l/wish/270645261 History ReWriter: Best Practice - Corroboration beth_o_woodward https://padlet.com/beth_o_woodward/zos4reoovv1l/wish/270647552 Explicitly teaching corroboration and citing page numbers in sources helps students reduce the amount of plagiarism in their work. It also teaches them the importance of reading carefully and organizing their notes. This type of work can be down with short readings and the textbook, or with longer book level or article readings that students will encounter in college.

Please note that assignments like this help prevent, but do not totally remove the risk of student cheating. I have found that spot-checking a sample of 5-6 assignments per period often reveals a student’s googling and copying someone else’s work.

]]> 2018-07-19 18:02:33 UTC https://padlet.com/beth_o_woodward/zos4reoovv1l/wish/270647552 Retrieval Practice -- Three Key Ingredients for Learning beth_o_woodward https://padlet.com/beth_o_woodward/zos4reoovv1l/wish/270716127 2018-07-20 17:30:32 UTC https://padlet.com/beth_o_woodward/zos4reoovv1l/wish/270716127 Teachers are not required to TEACH any state standards; they are only required to demonstrate that the assigned standards have been learned by all students. beth_o_woodward https://padlet.com/beth_o_woodward/zos4reoovv1l/wish/270717375 -- Susan Winebrenner]]> 2018-07-20 17:57:19 UTC https://padlet.com/beth_o_woodward/zos4reoovv1l/wish/270717375 Impact of Formative Assessment beth_o_woodward https://padlet.com/beth_o_woodward/zos4reoovv1l/wish/270718008 2018-07-20 18:09:26 UTC https://padlet.com/beth_o_woodward/zos4reoovv1l/wish/270718008 Self-Assessment beth_o_woodward https://padlet.com/beth_o_woodward/zos4reoovv1l/wish/270718117 Grades on a formal assessment should not come as a huge surprise to any student.


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