“Too often,educationaltests, grades,and report cardsare treated byteachers asautopsies whenthey should beviewed asphysicals.”

Assessment expert Doug Reeves

Explain the difference between a

simile and a metaphor. Give some

examples of each as a part of your

explanation.

List 3 things you learned about friction today.

List 2 ways you see friction working in world around you

List 1question you have about friction.

1. What was the objective?

2. What did you learn?

3. What do you still questions about?

Think (write) – Pair – Share

Response Logs / Journal Entries

Quick Reply: Whiteboards

Thumbs Up / Thumbs Down / Wavy Palm

Windshield: Clear…Bugs…Mud

Road Map:

I Know the Way… I Need to Follow You…I’m

Lost!

1. Stand with answers jotted down and a pen.

2. I’ll choose a person to call out an answer from his or her paper.

3. If that answer is on your paper also, raise your hand, say “me too” and cross it off of

your list.4.Continue until everyone has exhausted

their list5. Each can be recorded on chart paper

Not just hand-raising or chorale response.

Choose a method – white board, calculator display, number of raised fingers, color or answer cards, etc. – that allows you to see who’s got it, who doesn’t, and who seems reluctant.

1. Group students in groups of 4, 5, or 62. Give each student a question card (each student in each group has a different question)3. Students read their question to the group4. Scorekeeper records # of students for each question who are:

a. Really sure b. Pretty sure c. Foggy d. Just don’t know

5. Students scramble to groups of students who share the same question and prepare one answer6. Go back to original groups7. Share answers and re score8. Report to group before and after scorecards

Formative Assessment Instructional Groupings

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Students who are struggling with the concept or skill

Students with some understanding of the concept or skill

Students who understand the concept or skill

You don’t fatten a pigby weighing it, so…

…use your assessments

to guide instruction.

Polk Bros. Foundation for Chicago Education at Depaul:http://teacher.depaul.edu

Nixa (MO) Public Schools

Rocky Mountain Center for Health Promotion and Education

Melanie Cifonelli, Syracuse City (NY) School District

Tomlinson, C. (2000). Differentiating Instruction for Academic Diversity

Bruce Kelly, Kent (WA) School District

http://www.greece.k12.ny.us/instruction/ELA/6-12/tools/index.htm