Determine Content
Solidify Assessment
Set Goals
Track Progress
Verify Outcomes
100
In order to graduate from Relay GSE, our teachers must demonstrate that their students have....
achieved meaningful academic outcomes in one year's time.
100
Explain what "garbage in, garbage out" means in terms of solidifying an assessment plan.
Liam to judge the quality of this response!
100
Please explain how RGSE Goals differ for Year 1 SGA.
They are 50% of the year long goals!
100
Your graduate student says, "my school already gave me a tracker. I don't wanna use the Relay tracker. Ugh. This is a waste of my time!" Leveraging the "compelling reasons why we ask graduate students to use Relay tracker" examples from Faculty Seminar please role play how you would respond to this graduate student in your session. Liam will be the challenging teacher. :)
To be judged by Kaycee and the opposing team!
100
what is a potential danger of a teacher wanting to drop four students from her roster at the end of year?
Let's open it up to more discussion....
200
What are the five steps of the RGSE Pathway to Student Achievement? You must first state each step, then model a kinesthetic gesture for each step
1) Determine Content 2) Solidify Assessment 3) Set Goals 4) Track Progress 5) Verify Outcomes
200
What does it mean for a standards mastery assessment to be S.O.D.A.S.? DAILY DOUBLE: Your team can earn double points for this question if you can share why each of these five criteria are essential to a SGA Pathway.
-Sizeable -Obtainable -Defensible -Aligned -Summative
200
Name the Achievement Floor and Ambitious Goal for RG, WG, and SM.
Let's look at the handbook for exact answers here!
200
Please share 5 useful tracker tips you learned this week. You can share excel shortcuts, excel formulas, or general tips. Each of the 5 tips has to be something that at least one of you didn't know before this week.
Sample answers: 1) Make sure the data mirrors the format of the Relay tracker before cutting and pasting 2) Copy paste as "values only" 3) Use the "transpose" button when data is horizontally displayed and you need it vertically displayed 4) You can can drag down the corner of a cell to apply a formula in a cell to an entire column 5) There is a simple excel formula (involving =left) that will allow you to remove last names and be left with just the last initial!
200
Please list the 4 things that graduate students must confirm prior to submitting their end of year trackers.
1) finalize roster 2) confirm data is complete and accurate 3) confirm tracker is functioning properly 4) confirm end-of-year outcomes (progress to AF and AG)
300
A teacher proposes to measure 60% of the 3rd grade math standards because she diagnosed her students and at the beginning of the school year and they are behind. How do you respond?
Kaycee to judge the quality of this response!
300
What happens if a graduate student reaches the end of year and realizes that she broke from her original assessment plan and that her Pathway isn't aligned? DAILY DOUBLE: Your team can earn double points for this question if someone on your team can list 4 concrete things you would do throughout the year to ensure that this didn't happen.
No graduation for you! Good thing you had a faculty member who helped you stay out of this debacle!
300
Please explain how a graduate student who would finalize a standards mastery goal and who the graduate student could go to for help with this decision beyond you.
It all comes down to finalizing your set of standards. Content Professors and School Leaders can be a real help here!
300
Please name the 3* RGSE Trackers for SY2012 and why we've decided to use these particular trackers this year. DAILY DOUBLE: If there is someone on your team who truly hearts trackers by this point of Faculty Seminar, they will have the opportunity to score your team double points for this question if they walk into the middle of the office, stand on a chair and say, "Yes everyone it's true. I LOVE trackers."
1) Reading Growth 2) Writing Growth 3) Standards Mastery *There is a Year 1 and Year 2 version of the reading growth tracker Whoever did the daily double is my new hero.
300
If graduate students need help from NYtrackers@relayschool.org, how far in advance should they send in their trackers prior to a module assessment due date.
One week in advance of your assessment due date. We cannot guarantee tracker support on a last-minute basis.
400
What is an accurate and meaningful measure?
The scope of instructional content is most appropriate for students in this grade and subject The assessments of learning are aligned, rigorous, and high-quality, and give students sufficient at-bats to demonstrate their learning Average scores are calculated in a thoughtful way that weights content equally The data is complete and error-free And so on and so on
400
Explain the importance of an apples to apples measure for growth-based Pathways.
Kaycee to judge quality of this response.
400
Explain what a graduate student must do if she chooses to remove a student with special needs from her roster.
1) provide compelling rationale for removing that student from your class goal(s). 2) Share what alternative goal you have set for this student outside the content you are measuring for your SGA coursework.
400
What happens to any standards that you indicate that you will assess, but are not assessed by the end of the year?
they are counted as zeros!
400
Please create a rhyme explaining how many graduation points a teacher can earn for Year 1 student achievement. You may have 3 minutes to plan your rhyme.
This. Is. Great.
500
Explain what it means to take home the gold in SGA.
Liam to judge the quality of this response!
500
Explain the purpose of a Pathway assessment calendar, and how they should be followed by graduate students throughout the school year.
Helps grad students think ahead and plan for a way to measure their Pathway; does not need to be followed to the date, but should be followed closely or edited immediately if the teacher is falling behind.
500
Share three compelling reasons for increasing a student-specific ambitious reading growth goal. Share three compelling reasons for lowering a SSAG.
Let's leverage the examples we shared in session today.
500
To exclude a student from your dataset, what documentation is required?
Email to Professor, written approval from Professors, necessary actions taken in the tracker to document the decision.
500
Please sing a song explaining how many graduate points a teacher may earn for Year 2 student achievement. You will have 3 minutes to plan your song and everyone must participate in the performance to earn your points.
Hahahahahahahahahah! Awesome.
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