Monitoring Effective Assignments and Assessments for Learning
Potourri
100
Visiting a classroom for 3 to 5 minutes is this type of observation.
What is WALK-THROUGH?
100
These communicate the learning goals in the form of a question. (What students will know and be able to do...)
What is the LESSON ESSENTIAL QUESTION?
100
List three HOT strategies outlined in chapter 3.
What are Compare and Contrast, identifying patterns, and analyze, evaluate, and constructing arguments?
100
These are a formative assessment tool used for determining the degree to which students met the lesson's learning goal.
What are ASSIGNMENTS?
100
When done at the end of the lesson it provides evidence of student learning for teachers.
What are SUMMARIZING STRATEGIES?
200
Student engagement, learning and understanding are all characteristics in these types of schools.
What are look-for's in high performing schools?
200
A student engagement activity focused on the lesson goal and previews the lesson's key vocabulary.
What is the ACTIVATING STRATEGY?
200
This is a key skill for students who will need to solve problems after high school that we don't even know exit yet.
What is TRANSFERENCE?
200
These are two characteristics of a quality assignment.
What are:
1)Focus on academic content provided by grade level expectations of the standards.
2) Require students to apply the knowledge and skills defined by the learning goals of the lesson.
3) Require students to used HOT strategies.
4) Integrate grade level writing standards.
5) Have clear expectations of student performance.
200
These are the TOP two levels of the 4 levels of learning.
What are APPLY and ANALYZE/REASON?
300
This 4-step process will ensure that your teachers get the supports needed to meet expectations for successful school-wide implementation.
What are EDUCATE, ENCOURAGE, EXPECT, and EVALUATE?
300
These are used to lift out the key ideas of a lesson and to help answer the lesson essential question.
What is a GRAPHIC ORGANIZER?
300
A school/districts benchmark assessments need to be at least this percentage of higher order thinking questions or tasks.
What is 65%?
300
These are learning experiences based on the learning goals.
What are LEARNING ACTIVITIES?
300
Two major sources for exemplary practices.
What are research based strategies and evidence based strategies?
400
Walk-throughs that start at the lowest grade level and progress through the building.
What are the VERTICAL WALK-THROUGHS?
400
Teachers use these questions and tasks throughout the lesson to check for student understanding.
What are ASSESSMENT PROMPTS?
400
This level of learning involves concepts that can be recognized or identified from memory.
What is RECALL?
400
Assignments should include these two things so that students know what constitutes quality.
What are clear directions and a clear description of the criteria?
400
Graphic organizers, learning activities, assessment prompts, collaborative pairs, and assignments are part the _______________ in the lesson progression.
What is the LESSON INSTRUCTION?
500
These are three things that the best principals "look-for" in the classroom.
What are student engagement, climate, and effective teacher actions?
500
These are two of the top five research-based strategies proven to maximize learning.
What are HOTS, SUMMARIZING, VOCAB IN CONTEXT, ADV. ORGANIZERS, or NON VERBAL REPRESENTATIONS?
500
This level of learning organizes information, analyzes for new insights, and uses the information in new context to combine multiple thinking strategies.
What is APPLY?
500
In this type of classroom teachers create an environment in which each student is expected to learn at high levels, each student is supported so he or she can learn at high levels, and each student demonstrates learning at high levels.
What is a RIGOROUS CLASSROOM?
500
Think-Ink-Share, Journal response, Numbered heads, word sort, and create a visual symbol are all examples of _________________.