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Assessment and Concepts About Print. August 30, 2011. Announcements. Tutoring Kit questions or great finds?. Discuss Assessment Cycle and Constructive Assessment Define Concepts About Print Identify methods for Assessing Concepts About Print (CAP) - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Assessment and Concepts About Print
August 30, 2011
Announcements
• Tutoring Kit questions or great finds?
• Discuss Assessment Cycle and Constructive Assessment
• Define Concepts About Print• Identify methods for Assessing Concepts About
Print (CAP)• Discuss the nature of technology in classrooms
today• Discuss Web Literacy
Big Ideas: Teacher Discourse
• Being a “constructive evaluator”• Assessment as “social interaction”• The “language of assessment”• Trust, power and control• Trajectory- “Where was I?” Where am I
now?” “How did I get there?”• The Implications of teachers’ responses
Building an Insider View: Social Imagination
“The ability to read others”“…. The possibility of understanding our own
and others’ experiences from that many more vantage points”
“Valuing, exploring, and appreciating multiple perspectives in the classroom.”
(Johnston, Knowing Literacy, 1997, Owacki & Goodman, Kidwatching, 2002)
Assessment
Assessment: What do you know about assessment? How is it used? What materials/tools do teachers use to assess students? What counts?
• Ideas from Kidwatching– What is Kidwatching?– What can we learn from it?– How does it differ from other types of assessment
you’ve experienced?
Assessment Cycle
Observe and assess Score and
analyze
assessment(s)
Sort and sift data within assessments.
Look for patterns:
OVERALLWrite and prioritize instructional goals
Find instructio
nal
strategies
Write lesson plans
Instruct
What to assess?
What might you want to know about your students?
How can you find out?
Use this to list the assessments that you have learned about and how you might choose to apply them to tutoring with your student. Consider what it is you want to know and the
purpose of the assessment.
What does this assessment designed to do? What information
can you get from it? How does it fit in with other
assessments?
Why give this assessment? (what is the purpose; which of 6 language arts can you gather information about? )
What changes need to be made? (what are the
pros/cons of this assessment?)
What do you still need to know?
Concepts About PrintUnderstanding how texts and printed language
work. • Shout Out– What do people need to know and be able to do in
order to access printed texts?• Think About it: Insect Soup
Concepts About Print• What are concepts about print? (From Marie
Clay’s Observation Survey)– Print orientation (Directionality)– Letter identification– High frequency words– Writing Spree– Dictation
• What tools do we have to help us assess a child’s understanding of concepts about print?
Let’s Try It- CAP
Harrison’s VoiceThread http://youtu.be/AAPB_g3ZAyo (Advertisements)http://youtu.be/yzIZ1415nuM (It’s Not Easy Being a Bunny)http://youtu.be/RuYzOby2_CY (Dalmations)
Make a “checklist” of a few things you might expect to observe regarding print orientation.
What do these children know about print and texts?
Ideas for teaching CAP• Class books• Environmental Print• Charts• Shared Reading and Read-alouds (Use Big
Books with the whole class)• Use available technology as well
Other ideas from the reading or other classes that you may want to try?
CAP and New Literacies
What understandings of how texts work do you need for the following?
• Technological Literacy• Visual Literacy• Media Literacy• Information LiteracyHow might you assess it?
• Divide into groups of 4• Share ideas from Digital Storytelling– Make connections– Ask questions
• Discuss your Key Ideas from the reading and discuss how this might impact your work with children?
Big Ideas Chart
• So what does all of this mean for us? • What will this look like when we are working
with our students?Assessment Chart• What assessments did we discuss today? Add
them to your chart.
Next Time
Read Choice Words, Ch. 3, 4 & 5 Add a thought to the Big Ideas chart Think about you Tutoring Kit