This session explores effective teacher’s rigorous teaching and testing practices. The presenter discusses the importance of professional learning communities, differentiation, multiple intelligences, revised Bloom’s taxonomy, data driven instruction, performance based assessment, and formative assessment. The presenter provides practical solutions to educational leaders who want to improve the achievement level of all students.
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Uncover the Truth About Rigorous Teaching and Testing
1. Uncover the Truth about
rigorous teaching and
testing practices
Presented by Tesha Isler, Ed.D.
Assisted by Amy Nichols
Wayne County Public Schools
Teaching and Learning Coaches/Human Resources
Middle School Conference
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2. Agenda
Rigorous
How will you apply
Teaching Practices
what you learned?
Rigorous
Testing Practices
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3. Uncover the Truth…
• WHAT are we teaching?
• HOW are we teaching it?
• HOW do we know our students are
learning it?
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4. What are we teaching?
NCDPI Common Core and Essential Standards Wikispace:
http://www.ncdpi.wikispaces.net/
Sample Items and Performance Task:
http://www.smarterbalanced.org/sample-items-and-performance
Stanford University Resources:
http://wordsift.com/site/about
Joan Sedita site that focuses on Content Literacy:
www.keystoliteracy.com
Helpful Georgia site:
https://www.georgiastandards.org/Common-Core/Pages/Math-K
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5. How are we teaching it?
Dare to Differentiate Wikispace:
http://daretodifferentiate.wikispaces.com/
Cooperative Learning Role Cards:
http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/lesson_im
Reciprocal Teaching:
http://www.readingrockets.org/strategies/reciprocal_tea
Problem Based Learning:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMCZvGesRz8
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6. How do we know our students
are learning it?
West Virginia Department of Education:
http://wvde.state.wv.us/teach21/ExamplesofForm
Why Formative Assessments Matter:
http://www.edutopia.org/blog/formative-
assessments-importance-of-rebecca-alber
New York Performance-Based Assessment:
http://performanceassessment.org/images/p
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10. Differentiation
• Varied approaches to what students need
to learn, how they will learn it, and/or how
they can express what they have learned
• Classroom Profiles
Tomlinson, 2003, p.151
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11. How can I create a differentiated
classroom?
• Create a Classroom Profile
• Who are my challenged, average, and gifted students?
Low: Three crucial points, three concepts
Direct Approach-Teacher explanation
Middle: All aspects of the topic
Modeling, Independent work, Review and Practice
High: In-depth study
Minimal instruction with probing questions for
independent study
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12. Write a Poem Design a Poster or a Wordle Think of Song Titles
Think of a list of words that Make a list of words that Make a list of song titles that
have meaning for co-teachers. describe co-teaching. Create a could describe co-teaching.
Write a short poem that uses poster or a wordle, laying these Write the list down. Be
these words. words out in an attractive prepared to sing one of your
pattern of positions and colors. songs for the group.
Choice board for Make a Model
Use simple household
materials like toilet paper rolls,
balloons, string, and pipe
Create a Human Sculpture
With your group members,
create a human sculpture that
depicts co-teaching.
Create a Skit
Create a skit that shows a co-
teaching scenario.
differentiated cleaners to make a model of
what co-teaching looks like.
projects
Draw a Picture Make a Bumper Sticker Create a Collage
Draw a picture that depicts co- Create a bumper sticker with a Think about words and images
teaching. slogan that describes co- that the concept of co-teaching
teaching. evokes in your mind. Find
pictures and words in
magazines and create a
collage.
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16. Technology One-On-One
Edmodo Group Code: urlul0
http://www.symbaloo.com/mix/homewebmix2385
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17. Theory of Multiple Intelligence:
3 of the 8 intelligences
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18. Challenge and Critical Thinking
• Revised Bloom’s Taxonomy
• Problem-Based Learning
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19. BLOOM’S REVISED TAXONOMY
Creating
Generating new ideas, products, or ways of viewing things
Designing, constructing, planning, producing, inventing.
Evaluating
Justifying a decision or course of action
Checking, hypothesizing, critiquing, experimenting, judging
Analyzing
Breaking information into parts to explore understandings and relationships
Comparing, organizing, deconstructing, interrogating, finding
Applying
Using information in another familiar situation
Implementing, carrying out, using, executing
Understanding
(Based on Explaining ideas or concepts
Pohl, 2000, Interpreting, summarizing, paraphrasing, classifying, explaining
Learning to
Remembering
Think,
Recalling information
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Recognizing, listing, describing, retrieving, naming, finding
Learn)
20. Problem-Based Learning
Requires the use of real-world problems. This
adds an exciting authenticity for students, but it
creates challenges for the teacher. Real-world
problems, by their nature, are messy. It often is
difficult to predict how long it will take students to
develop a solution. These problems are based
on the existing curriculum, but they do not rely
on traditional classroom resources such as
textbooks and exams.
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25. Formative Assessments
“Formative assessment is a process used
by teachers and students during
instruction that provides feedback to
adjust ongoing teaching and learning to
improve students’ achievement of
intended instructional outcomes”
(Popham, 2008).
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26. Performance Based Assessments
• Performance assessment is one alternative to
traditional methods of testing student
achievement. While traditional testing requires
students to answer questions correctly (often on
a multiple-choice test), performance assessment
requires students to demonstrate knowledge and
skills, including the process by which they solve
problems. Performance assessments measure
skills such as the ability to integrate knowledge
across disciplines, contribute to the work of a
group, and develop a plan of action when
confronted with a new situation.
Retrieved 26
from http://www.projectappleseed.org/assesment.html
27. Alignment Between Content and
Performance Tasks
What do you want students to know?
What do you want students to do to
show
what they know?
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28. Variety of Assessments
• Student products • Student Assessments
Demonstrate Indicate a wide range,
understanding by being reflect the learning, and
able to use the learning in
different contexts follow the rubric
Indicate student use of a Provide feedback to
variety of inquiry skills to both the teacher and the
solve problems, create students on what is
products, and access working and what is not
information
Donna Walker Tileston, 2011, 10 Best Teaching Practices
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29. Assessments
The assessment should help students
make connections to:
Understandings
Past concepts Skills
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31. Rigorous Teaching - 100
What is the main rigorous teaching practice?
A. Differentiation B. Engagement C. Cooperative Learning D. Questioning
A. Differentiation
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32. Rigorous Teaching - 200
What is the best way to differentiate according to my case study?
A. Cooperative Learning B. Engage C. Classroom Profiles D. Humor
C. Classroom Profile
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33. Rigorous Teaching - 300
What is the highest level of Bloom’s Revised Taxonomy?
A. Evaluating B. Creating C. Remembering D. Applying
B. Creating
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34. Rigorous Teaching - 400
What is considered a transformed approach to teaching?
A.Facilitate learning B. Student Centered
C. Application focused D. All of the above
D. All of the above
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35. Rigorous Teaching - 500
Name three of the eight multiple intelligences (The intelligences that are critical to
use daily)
Auditory, Visual, Kinesthetic
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36. Rigorous Teaching - 600
Name all the components of Rigorous Teaching
Differentiation, Cooperative Learning, Engagement, Challenge and Critical
Thinking, Project Based Learning, and Reciprocal Teaching
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37. Rigorous Testing - 100
What is the main rigorous testing practice?
A.Variety of Assessment B. Performance Based assessment
C. Self Assessment D. Formative Assessment
D. Formative Assessment
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38. Rigorous Testing - 200
How does the best become the best?
A. Communicate often B. Work Hard
C. They never stop learning D. Laugh Often
C. Never stop learning
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39. Rigorous Testing - 300
The assessment should help students make connections to
A.Understanding, past concepts, skills B. Information, community
C. Performance based assessment D. Real life, information, skills
A. Understanding, Past Concepts, Skills
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40. Rigorous Testing - 400
What is performance based assessment?
Performance assessment is one alternative to traditional methods of testing
student achievement. While traditional testing requires students to answer
questions correctly (often on a multiple-choice test), performance assessment
requires students to demonstrate knowledge and skills, including the process by
which they solve problems. Performance assessments measure skills such as the
ability to integrate knowledge across disciplines, contribute to the work of a group,
and develop a plan of action when confronted with a new situation.
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41. Rigorous Testing - 500
What is formative assessment?
“Formative assessment is a process used by teachers and students during
instruction that provides feedback to adjust ongoing teaching and learning to
improve students’ achievement of intended instructional outcomes” (Popham,
2008).
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42. Rigorous Testing - 600
How do you align content and performance tasks?
You ask: What you want them to know? What do you want students to do to show what
they know?
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43. How will you apply what you have
learned?
• Tell a partner how you will use these
strategies in your classroom.
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44. Lifelong Learners
• The best become the best because they
never stop learning.
“If we want to be serious about students’ learning,
we need to be serious about our own learning. We
need to continually seek and accept ideas, help,
and criticism. Feedback works.”
Alexis Wiggins in Education Week, Oct. 20, 2010
(Vol. 30, #8, p. 19)
How do we know they are learning?
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ASSESSMENT
45. Professional Learning Communities
• Professional Learning Communities (PLCs) shift the
focus of school reform from restructuring to
reculturing (Louis, 2006). A PLC is an ongoing
process used to establish a schoolwide culture that
develops teacher leadership explicitly focused on
building and sustaining school improvement efforts
(Bolam, McMahon, Stoll, Thomas, & Wallace, 2005;
Huffman, 2000). Through participation in PLCs,
teachers enhance their leadership capacity while
they work as members of ongoing, high-performing,
collaborative teams that focus on improving student
learning (Rentfro, 2007).
Retrieved from http://www.centerforcsri.org/plc/program.html
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46. Teaching
1. Embrace rigorous expectations for
all students.
2. High expectations with challenge and
expecting students to problem solve and
think.
3. Demonstrate expertise in use of
instructional strategies, technology and
best practices.
4. Facilitate rigorous and relevant
instruction based on how students learn.
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Use assessments to guide and
48. The 10 Best Teaching
Strategies
• Creating an Environment that facilitates learning
• Differentiating for Different Learning Styles
• Helping Students Make Connections from Prior
Knowledge
• Teaching for Long-Term Memory
• Constructing Knowledge through Higher-level Thinking
Processes
• Fostering Collaborative Learning
• Bridging the Gap between all learners
• Evaluating Learning with authentic assessments
• Encouraging In-Depth Understanding with Real-World
Applications
• Integrating Technology Seamlessly Into Instruction
Tileston, D.10 Best Teaching Practices “How Brain Research, Learning Styles,
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and Standards Define Teaching Competencies” Corwin, 2011.
Click on either ELA or mathematics. On the next page, you can scroll through some examples. If you look at the top of this screen, you can choose grade specific sample items by clicking on "View More Math Sample Items.“ Preview text and pull out potential vocabulary words, particularly Tier 2 words
Create a Classroom Profile Who are my challenged, average, and gifted students? Low: Three crucial points, three concepts Direct Approach-Teacher explanation Middle: All aspects of the topic Modeling, Independent work, Review and Practice High : In-depth study Minimal instruction with probing questions for independent study
When using Storybird.com, students had to use the writing process and work backwards. The students had a rubric to guide them to the final product. I used my writing/reading standards to help mold this assignment. This website can be used in any grade level with the grade level’s standards. Students using stretch learning were able to
GOAL OF ITI MODEL: MASTERY ASSESSMENT: EE Ch. 23 What do you want students to understand? (patterns) using real life settings-BEING THERE What to you want them to do with what they understand? (programs) assess what’s worth assessing rather than what is easy to assess Mastery as in competence: not only in mastering skill or concept but he/she knows how to apply it in the real world Incorporated into a MENTAL PROGRAM Curriculum MUST BE authentic if assessment is to be authentic REAL WORLD TESTS OF MASTERY Ability to use language of discipline in social/complex situations Ability to perform appropriately in unanticipated social situations Ability to solve real world problems using skills and concepts Ability to show, teach, explain the idea or skill to another person who has a real need to know ROLE OF KEY POINTS State what’s worth learning and therefore what’s worth assessing Provide base for instructional planning Serve as communiqué to students, staff and parents about curriculum content Record what is being taught RUBRICS 3 C’s of Assessment EE p. 23.6-7 CORRECT: conforming to fact, free from error, accurate COMPLETE: having all parts/elements COMPREHENSIVE: of large scope, inclusive, extensive mental range or grasp
Along with the creating confidence by insuring success, teachers should create assessments that help students make connections to past concepts, understandings, and skills.
Although there is no universal definition of a PLC (Stoll et al., 2006; Williams, Brien, Sprague, & Sullivan, 2008), the following definitions offer a range of ways to describe a PLC: An ongoing process through which teachers and administrators work collaboratively to seek and share learning and to act on their learning, their goal being to enhance their effectiveness as professionals for students’ benefit (Hord, 1997) A school culture that recognizes and capitalizes on the collective strengths and talents of the staff (Protheroe, 2008). A strategy to increase student achievement by creating a collaborative school culture focused on learning (Feger & Arruda, 2008). Team members who regularly collaborate toward continued improvement in meeting learner needs through a shared curricular-focused vision (Reichstetter, 2006). A group of people sharing and critically interrogating their practice in an ongoing, reflective, collaborative, inclusive learning-oriented and growth-promoting way (McREL, 2003). Educators committed to working collaboratively in ongoing processes of collective inquiry and action research to achieve better results for the students they serve (DuFour, DuFour, Eaker, & Many, 2006). An inclusive group of people, motivated by a shared learning vision, who support and work with each other to inquire on their practice and together learn new and better approaches to enhance student learning (Stoll, Bolam, McMahon, Thomas, Wallace, Greenwood et al., 2005). While these definitions capture the spirit of PLCs, they are only a starting point for understanding them. What makes a PLC difficult to define is that it is not a prescription, a new program, a model, or an innovation to be implemented. Rather, a PLC is an infrastructure or a way of working together that results in continuous school improvement (Hord, 1997).