Instuctionally Supportive Assessment UEA october

Instructionally Supportive Assessment: 

Instructionally Supportive Assessment What is instructionally supportive assessment? How can assessment be used to improve student learning? UEA Annual Conference Brett D. Moulding Utah Office of Education Director of Curriculum and Instruction

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Instructionally Supportive Assessment What is instructionally supportive assessment'? Aligns to Curriculum: Standards-Goals-Objectives Focuses on Essential Concepts Assesses Important – Meaningful – Knowledge Provides Significant and Meaningful Information for Instruction

Assess Student’s UnderstandingMeaningful – Essential – Worth Retaining – Big Ideas – Key Concepts ”Hopefully this knowledge is described in the Core”: 

Assess Student’s Understanding Meaningful – Essential – Worth Retaining – Big Ideas – Key Concepts 'Hopefully this knowledge is described in the Core' Assessment should be aligned to the Core Assess the 'Intended Learning Outcomes' Assessments should assess students depth of understanding of the big ideas, concepts, and themes Reflect good instruction Assess across content areas those skills that are common to all curriculums

What is Important Knowledge: 

What is Important Knowledge Identify the three essential concepts/skills that you want students to know and be able to do (write them down) Select one – circle What evidence would you accept that your students know or can do _____?

How can assessment be used to improve student learning?: 

How can assessment be used to improve student learning?

Fundamental Theorem of LearningCurriculum / Instruction / Assessment/ Learning : 

Fundamental Theorem of Learning Curriculum / Instruction / Assessment/ Learning Students learn what is taught Knowledge builds upon previous knowledge and experiences Learning objectives have value Aligning instruction to intended learning outcomes increases the chance of students learning the intended learning objectives Assessing target objective will improve instruction - hence learning

Model for Instruction in UtahUsing Assessment of Learning to Inform Instruction: 

Model for Instruction in Utah Using Assessment of Learning to Inform Instruction Utah Core Curriculum Fine Arts Health/PE Social Studies Information Technology TLC Library Media Teacher Observation of Students U-PASS Math Language Arts Reading/Writing Science Instruction Skills Classroom Assessments Assessments Accompanying Instructional Materials CRTs Iowa Test BSCT Direct Writing Standards Assessments

What does research tell us: 

What does research tell us Target essential concepts Connect learning Align instruction to learning objectives Information available to learner and teacher Quality feedback improves learning Nature of the effective feedback Meaningful and specific Prompt Detailed Constructive

Attributes of knowledge that is retained and used: 

Attributes of knowledge that is retained and used Logical Memorable Applicable Connected to prior knowledge Used as part of thinking Big Ideas

Good Assessment: 

Good Assessment Quality classroom assessment requires a significant amount of time to develop, assess and evaluate Good assessment leads to meaningful evaluation Multiple lines of evidence improve instructional decisions Make wise decisions from data There is error in all measurement - Since your goal is to have meaningful information about student learning in your classroom – you should strive to have assessment that reduces assessment error and is used for the purpose for which it is designed.

Actions: 

Actions How can assessment be used in your school to improve instruction? Who needs to understand instructionally supportive assessment in your school? What needs to change in your school to improve feedback to students and teacher that will improve student achievement?

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What is instructionally supportive assessment? How can assessment be used to improve student learning?

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A good teacher must be able to put himself in the place of those who find learning hard.--Eliphas Levi If a child can't learn the way we teach, maybe we should teach the way they learn.--Ignacio 'Nacho' Estrada If kids come to us [educators/teachers] from strong, healthy functioning families, it makes our job easier. If they do not come to us from strong, healthy, functioning families, it makes our job more important.--Barbara Colorose It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.--Albert Einstein The job of a teacher is to excite in the young a boundless sense of curiosity about life, so that the growing child shall come to apprehend it with an excitement tempered by awe and wonder.--John Garrett The man who can make hard things easy is the educator.--Ralph Waldo Emerson A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.--Henry Brooks Adams A teacher enlarges people in all sorts of ways besides just his subject matter.--Wallace Stegner (Crossing To Safety) The teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.--Horace Mann A teacher's day is half bureaucracy, half crisis, half monotony and one-eighth epiphany. Never mind the arithmetic.--Susan Ohanian (Ask Ms. Class) Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.--Jacques Barzun (Teacher in America) Teaching kids to count is fine, but teaching them what counts is best.--Bob Talbert What nobler profession than to touch the next generation--to see children hold your understanding in their eyes, your hope in their lives, your world in their hands. In their success, you find your own and so to them you give your all.--Unknown ('The Essence of Teaching') What was the duty of the teacher if not to inspire?--Bharati Mukhejee ('Buried Lives' The Middleman) The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.--Anatole France The whole secret of the teacher's force lies in the conviction that man are convertible.--Ralph Waldo Emerson (Journals)

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Inspired teachers ... cannot be ordered by the gross from the factory. They must be discovered one by one, and brought home from the woods and swamps like orchids. They must be placed in a conservatory, not in a carpenter shop; and they must be honored and trusted.--John Jay Chapman

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