Assessment
This kind of assessment should support student learning and help to make instructional decisions to help learners progress.
What is formative assessment?
According to this mathematics education organization, all children can reach mathematics proficiency and high levels of performance regardless of race, ethnicity, gender, socioeconomic status, ability, or linguistic background.
What is the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics or NCTM?
Of acceleration/pacing, depth, complexity, and creativity, the one adaptation for gifted learners for which a classroom may not have much say.
What is acceleration/pacing?
This is the only elementary grade level in which we have no students in a practicum placement.
What is kindergarten?
This is Diane's collegiate alma mater.
What is the University of Iowa?
This kind of assessment, like the Iowa Assessments or a chapter test, is a single score to measure progress towards standards and not necessarily to improve instruction.
What is summative assessment?
Allowing more time to complete a task, reading test questions to a student, and taking an assessment in a smaller setting are all examples of these.
What are accommodations?
When asking a student to give an example or tell more about his/her thinking, the teacher is using this talk move.
What is elaborating?
Memorization and procedures without connections are low levels of these.
What are cognitive demands?
This is the square root of 81.
What is 9?
Of writing, Cliff notes, checklists, and observations, the one that is NOT a type of formative assessment.
What are Cliff notes?
Teaching equitably means that teachers don't necessarily give students equal treatment, but give students what each needs to reach these.
What are equal (the same) outcomes?
Learning this takes longer than learning conversational language. About 7 years, actually.
What is academic language?
When teaching English language learners, both content and language these should be posted.
What are objectives?
This person drinks LOTS of coffee, teases Diane about all of her elementary "stuff on a cart," and cheers for the Oklahoma Sooners.
Who is Scott Arnett?
This kind of formative assessment tool includes specific performance indicators which clearly describe what student work should look like at various levels of performance.
What is a rubric?
These two plans, which are legal documents, guarantee that students receive equal access to grade-level curriculum.
What are IEPs and 504 plans?
Breaking a task into smaller parts, utilizing another task of the same concept, and scaffolding material are all types of these.
What are modifications?
This tool can be used so that students can show that they can flexibly represent their thinking in ways such as explaining with words, drawing a representation, creating a real life example or wod problem, and using symbols and numbers.
What is a translation task?
This is the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter. (Hint: Think pumpkin.)
What is pi?
Teachers should assess conceptual understanding, procedural fluency, competence and adaptive reasoning, and a productive this.
What is a disposition?
When using the Response to Intervention (RtI) approach to support students, instruction must be paired with this to make sure students are responding to the intervention.
What is progress monitoring?
When a teacher models the strategy, prompts students through the model, and provides practice for the students, he/she is using this type of instruction.
What is explicit instruction?
When a teacher asks a student to restate someone else's ideas in his/her own words, the teacher is using this talk move.
This is the number of grandsons Diane has.
(Hint: Think about the Identity Property for Multiplication)
What is one?