Transcript Pre-Assessment PowerPoint

Differentiation
Pre-Assessments,
Instructional Strategies, and
Grouping Decisions
As you enter, please place a dot on the continuum.
Rate your level of comfort with using preassessments to guide instructional strategies.
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Agenda
Part I: What?
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Define
Part II: So What?
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Use provided scenarios to discussion
decisions that can be made based on
assessment data
Part III: Now What?
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Time to Plan: How can this be
implemented in our school? In the
classroom?
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Brainstorm
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Time for a focused conversation
around pre-assessments.
As you brainstorm what you know
about pre-assessments, write your
topics in the columns provided.
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Rationale: Why use Assessments?
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essential motivation for using
assessments is to increase the
likelihood of student success by
matching the student’s
instructional needs with the
teacher’s instructional strategies.
 Effective pre-assessments help
build a road map from a student’s
current level of achievement to the
content and skills needed to meet
a specific standard.
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Pre-Assessment Basics
Definition
Purpose
Compare your brainstorm with the support
materials.
What’s missing from Handout A?
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Instructional Benefits
Think-Pair-Share
Describe a method you have used in
class that has produced some of
these instructional benefits
What benefits would you like to see
more of in your classroom?
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“Think Abouts”
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Start small
Make a plan for using your preassessment data
Incorporate all types of instructional
strategies
Utilize your Professional Learning
Communities/Teams/Collaboration
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Examples
Dots
Other
Continuums
Frayer Model
Text-based Pre-Test
Fist to Five
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Scenarios
Whole Group Example
 Small Group Work
 Share possible strategies based
on assessment data
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