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Determine Content
Solidify Assessment
Set Goals
Track Progress
Verify Outcomes
100
What steps should you take when a graduate student has a teaching placement unlike the samples in the SGA Handbook?
1) Review the guidance and the examples in the Handbook and apply your judgment as to what the graduate student should measure. 2) email sga@relay.edu sharing the teacher's classroom context and your recommendation(s) for what you believe they should measure.
100
Name 2 reasons why a graduate student may choose to use a summative assessment at the end of the year and explain why this assessment may only have 2 items per standard.
Sample Answers: 1) It's a Regents class and a summative measure is most aligned to instruction and good for kids 2) It ensures the retention of material over time 3) Wonky stuff can happen with school IAs, etc. this allows graduate students another option at the end of the year if need be. We only need 2 items per standard b/c we can't condone things like 150 item assessments for 1st graders.
100
Please explain the different between Year 1 and Year 2 Academic Goals.
Year 1 goals are 50% of 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
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
Name the 3 different types of character data a graduate student may collect and completion requirements for each type of data.
1) student and teacher growth indicator data (100%) 2) parent growth indicators data (90%) 3) Additional quantitative and/or qualitative data (100%)
200
Part 1: Name the Achievement Floor and Ambitious Goal for SM, RG, and WG. Part 2: Name the Character Goal.
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.
Tracker Guy will be the judge!
200
Please list the 4 things that graduate students must confirm prior to submitting their end of year trackers.
1) Roster is finalized 2) Data is complete 3) Tracker is error-free 4) confirm end-of-year outcomes (progress to AF and AG, progress to Character Goal)
300
Name one shared data option and a real life example (other than Mr. Joe, Ms. Doe and Ms. Snow) of when it would be appropriate to use this option. Please also share an example of when a graduate student may want to use a shared data option that would NOT be appropriate.
Sample Appropriate #1: A teacher is only responsible for planning and teaching half of the math standards in year (the co-teacher teaches the other 50%). This teacher selects the divided content option. Sample Appropriate #2: I'm an elementary teacher who has a co-teacher. You know what? That's pretty cool. Even though I don't teach each small-group they are all my students and I should be held responsible for all of their educational outcomes. Bam! This teacher selects the shared data option. Sample NOT Appropriate: I only teach the reading mastery portion of our class literacy instruction and I only want to be responsible for fluency growth. My co-teacher is really weak.
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 5 concrete things you would do throughout the year to ensure that this didn't happen.
Wah wah. No graduation points for you. Well, that was before you had this great Assistant Professor 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 explain the functionality of the SM, RG, WG, and Character 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. Tracker Heroes I Salute You."
Tracker Guy will be the judge! Whoever did the daily double is my new hero.
300
If graduate students need help from NYtrackers@relay.edu, 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
Describe the process for selecting a set of standards.
1) start with 100% of CCSS (or 100% of other standards if not in a CCSS grade/subject) 2) if selecting alternative standards, give rationale and explain how alternative standards compare in breadth and depth 3) if selecting prioritized standards, give rationale and explain how alternative standards compare in breadth and depth
400
What are the three steps you must take to solidify a writing growth assessment plan.
1) select your rubric 2) select your anchor paper 3) Select the type and genre you will use for your diagnostic and summative assessments.
400
Explain what a graduate student must do if she chooses to remove a student with special needs from her academic 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 3) Provide a brief report of how the student performed relative to the alternative goal at the end-of-year.
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 and you will have to enter this information manually creating a "dummy" assessment at the end-of-year.
400
What is the significance of >50%?
Students who are absent for more than 50% of class time may be excluded from the data set.
500
What are the three qualifying questions for the Character Pathway Step 1: Determine Content? In your own words is just fine!
1) Have you selected one character strength to teach and measure this year? 2) Have you selected a roster for your character growth measure? 3) Have you identified the appropriate character strength tab within the RGSE Character Tracker?
500
"standards mastery is only a meaningful measure of students' achievement if three conditions are met." Please name these three conditions. (think quality of assessments)
1) standards taught and assessed are at an appropriate level of rigor 2) assessments sufficiently cover the standards 3) the assessment consists of high-quality items aligned to standards
500
Share two compelling reasons for increasing a student-specific ambitious reading growth goal and two compelling reasons for lowering a SSAG.
Let's leverage the examples we shared in session yesterday.
500
To exclude a student from your dataset, what documentation is required?
Email to professor, written approval from professor, necessary actions taken in the tracker to document the decision.
500
Please create a song explaining how many graduation points a teacher can earn for Year 2 Academic Achievement and Character Growth.
This. Is. Great.