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Choose a grade level (and a subject matter, if applicable) for which you will cr ...

Overview

In this activity, you will begin building toward your assessment development. Answer the questions on this page to get started on your goals and alignment.

Instructions

Your submission should be 2-3 pages in length.

Step 1: Focusing Your Assessment Design

Choose a grade level (and a subject matter, if applicable) for which you will create this assessment. You can choose a grade/subject you already teach or one you hope to teach. You can also choose to focus on one of the grade-level profiles from the Backward Design Stage media pieces if you chose to do that in the Week 3 assignment.

Step 2: Course Assessment Planning

Begin developing a course assessment plan for a chosen grade by defining the following in 2-3 pages:

Content Standards

Determine the standards that you will be addressing in your instructional unit.
- Include both the ISTE standards for students and the common core state standards, or your own state standards, if your state has not adopted the CCSS.

Purpose for Assessment

Compile a list of the lasting "big ideas" you want students to take away from the unit of instruction that leads to this assessment, focusing on large-scale understandings.
- You can develop these easily by filling in this sentence: "I want my students to understand that ..."
- Note: Think about understandings that are:
  - Overarching: should include major ideas or concepts.
  - Recurring: the ideas should be broad and significant enough that they are addressed many times throughout a course and across multiple?grade levels.
  - Valuable: should provide value beyond the K-12 classroom.
Create 1-2 essential questions that support the student's understanding.
- Essential questions are open-ended and thought-provoking; they promote discourse among students, challenge students' thinking, and require students to justify their ideas.
Create a list of knowledge and skills that students will develop as a result of their work in this instructional unit.
- The knowledge pieces are concept statements (facts, foundational concepts, and vocabulary-things that students will know).
- The skills are actions-things that students will be able to do; skill statements should start with a verb.
  - Note: For help on this, refer to the Bloom's Taxonomy reading in the Learn section.

Michael is the only student who struggled with writing number words as fractions ...

After viewing the media piece, Student Success Begins With DataLinks to an external site., and the data provided in the summaries below, answer the following questions:

Michael is the only student who struggled with writing number words as fractions. How would you strengthen those skills with him while considering the rest of the class?
Consider the opposite: the majority of the students did not correctly answer Questions 6 and 7, which would warrant a re-teach. However, Sonia is the only student who, according to her scores, would not need a re-teach. How would you differentiate for her while you are re-teaching the rest of the class?
Half of the students did not master the topic area of adding and subtracting fractions. What would you do in this case, where half of the students struggled with content while the other half mastered it? How would you differentiate your instruction?

Consider how you would apply those situations to your own students in your learning environment.

Paul France suggests teachers put more emphasis on using qualitative standards-b ...

Paul France suggests teachers put more emphasis on using qualitative standards-based measures instead of quantitative indicators to assess student learning. Do you agree or disagree with his rationale? Why or why not?

Choose a specific grade level that you are either currently teaching or plan to ...

Use the Personalized Learning Profile Assignment Template [DOCX] Download Personalized Learning Profile Assignment Template [DOCX]for this assignment. Download the template file and complete the questions in the steps below. When you are done, submit the file.

Instructions

Step 1

Choose a specific grade level that you are either currently teaching or plan to teach. You can also choose to focus on one of the grade-level profiles from the Backward Design Stage media pieces.

Step 2

In a 2-3 page paper, complete the following, providing specific details relevant to your chosen grade level.

Evaluate the information needed, including specific details, to create a personalized learning profile.
Determine how you would gather information needed for a PLP and how you would access those sources.
Assess the learning needs that might come from the PLP.
Analyze how the PLP differs from an IEP.

What you might observe when a student has developed each of the four aspects of ...

This week, you explored four types of awareness: emotional awareness, physical awareness, cognitive awareness (metacognition), and social awareness. These four types of awareness precede autonomy, mastery, purpose, and intrinsic motivation. For this discussion, please respond to the following:

What you might observe when a student has developed each of the four aspects of awareness? Provide an example.

Compare an Individualized Education Plan to a Personalized Learning Profile. Wha ...

For this week's discussion, use this week's readings (the Forum Guide to Personalized Learning Data and the Personalized Learning Plans (PLP) Process Manual) and last week's resources on developing Individual Learning Plans. Then respond to the following:

Compare an Individualized Education Plan to a Personalized Learning Profile. What are the differences? How are they similar?

What do you know about personalized learning and what challenges do you face or ...

Think about your own learning environment and self-assess where you are with transforming teaching and learning in a personalized way. In your discussion, ensure that you-at a minimum-address the question:

What do you know about personalized learning and what challenges do you face or anticipate in regard to personalized learning?

Develop a learner-centered activity using teaching methods for distance learning ...

Please prepare a 2-3-page paper in which you:

Develop a learner-centered activity using teaching methods for distance learning to promote group discussion.
Summarize how distance learning teaching methods can support the four activities of reciprocal teaching in a remote setting, providing descriptive examples for each.
Develop a set of five culturally responsive questions that promote student collaboration through both oral and written expression, encompassing a range of cognitive levels to accommodate diverse learners.
Develop an assessment method that effectively measures student performance and engagement, incorporating strategies to gauge and evaluate student collaboration.
Describe how a specific learning theory can be applied to effectively determine the learning needs of students.
Cite 2 to 3 credible, relevant, appropriate sources, other than your textbook, to support your claims.

Describe the purpose of reciprocal teaching. With what content or during which i ...

This week you reviewed reciprocal teaching. Describe the purpose of reciprocal teaching. With what content or during which instructional activities would you most likely use reciprocal teaching in your classroom? How would you assess the results?

After reading the In Practice section titled, "Five-Step Model for Inquiry-Based ...

After reading the In Practice section titled, "Five-Step Model for Inquiry-Based Learning" on page 316 in your textbook, identify two key strategies you learned regarding the application of indirect instruction