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 the Proficient and Ambitious 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!" 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
A graduate student approaches you and says he met the Ambitious Goal, but upon closer review you notice he didn't teach and assess all of his standards. How do you respond?
Kaycee to judge the quality of this response.
200
What are the five steps of the RGSE Pathway to Student Achievement? DAILY DOUBLE: Your team can earn double points for this question by performing a song about the 5 Steps of the Pathway to the entire room.
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 (in a song/poem/rap) each of these five criteria are essential to an accurate and meaningful SGA Pathway.
-Sizeable -Obtainable -Defensible -Aligned -Summative
200
Name the Proficient Goal and Ambitious Goal for Standards Mastery and Reading Growth.
Let's look at the handbook for exact answers here!
200
Please share 3 useful tracker tips you learned this week. You can share excel shortcuts, excel formulas, or general tips for using the tracker file.
Sample answers: 1) Use the "Calculation Options" feature to prevent your tracker from calculating all new data as soon as its entered 2) Make sure the data mirrors the format of the Relay tracker before cutting and pasting, AND copy paste as "values only" 3) 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
In an end-of-year conversation a graduate student says she would have met the Proficient Goal if it weren't for her two lowest performers who each scored in the 50% range. How do you respond?
Liam to judge the quality of this response.
300
A teacher proposes to measure 60% of the 3rd grade math standards because she diagnosed her students 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
Your graduate student comes to you and says, 'it isn't developmentally appropriate for my students to read above grade level as 2nd graders. Therefore, I am lowering the SSAGs so that everyone will be reading no higher than grade level by the end-of-year."
All students deserve the opportunity--and push--to do their best each year. Setting false ceilings for student achievement does not allow us do our best as teachers, nor is it fair to our students.
300
Please describe the functionality of the SM and RG trackers. 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."
Whoever does the daily double is my new hero.
300
What are the four actions a graduate student should take to finalize her complete, error-free data at the EOY?
1) finalize her roster 2) confirm her assessment plan is complete 3) confirm her tracker is error-free 4) be honest about her data and treat them with care
400
What is an accurate and meaningful measure? DAILY DOUBLE: Perform a "West Side Story" type of turf war battle (think Sharks vs. Jets) between the "accurate and meaningful" vs. the "inaccurate and meaningless" measure of student learning
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 set an alternative ambitious goal for a student.
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
What does it mean to be honest and treat data with care? What step(s) will you take to build this culture within your cohort of graduate students?
Kaycee to judge quality of this response.
500
Explain what it means to take home the gold in SGA. DAILY DOUBLE: As a team, silently act out how it feels 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
What are three indicators that a goal has meaning? 100 Point Bonus: Have a team member give an example of a goal in your life which has meaning, based on these three indicators.
Know the Goal Know their progress to the Goal Are motivated by, invested in, and proud of their progress to the Goal
500
If a graduate student celebrated having a 75% overall average standards mastery at the mid-year point, what are three questions you would want to ask about that?
Liam to judge the quality of this response.
500
What's in a number? Romeo, oh Romeo! That which we call 82% by any other number would still smell just as sweet? 200 Point Bonus: Your response sounds like a soliloquy.
Liam to judge the quality of this response.
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