Progress on Professional Development Strategy #1December, 2012

If teachers attend monthly assessment literacy meetings and meet weekly in grade level Professional Learning Communities (PLC) to share and apply the 7 strategies of assessment literacy (AL), then we will increase the percentage of teachers embedding AL into their daily instruction as measured by quarterly student surveys in grades 2-5.

Strategy #1

Provide a clear and understandable

vision of the learning target.

I can learn whatever I need to learn to do well in school.

Strategy #1

I know if my work is good or not before I give it to the teacher.

Strategy #1

It is clear to me what I am expected to learn.

Strategy #1

My teacher tells our class what we are going to learn before we start to learn it.

Strategy #1

I can explain why my work is good or not.

Strategy #1

After learning something, I can explain what I learned.

Strategy #1

I understand my teacher’s system of grading.

Strategy #1

Strategy #2

Use examples and models of strong and

weak work.

My teacher uses examples of good and poor work to help me understand what good work looks like.

Strategy #2

I can tell what I need to do to make my work better.

Strategy #2

I know how to do work that will get a good grade.

Strategies #1 & #2

Strategy #3

Offer regular descriptive feedback.

My teacher helps us judge the quality of our work before we turn it in.

Strategy #3

Strategy #4

Teach students to self-assess and set

goals.

After we take a test, we use it to show us what we are good at and what we still need to work on.

Strategy #4

Strategy 5: Design lessons to focus on one aspect of quality at a time.

Strategy 6: Teach students focused revision.

Strategy 7: Engage students in self-reflection and let them keep track of and share their learning.

I can use samples of my work to show what I have learned.

Strategy #7

I keep track of how my work gets better over time.

Strategy #7

I can compare samples of my work to show how much I have improved.

Strategy #7

When I try to learn something hard, I can learn it.

If I decide to get good grades, I really can do it.

I do well in school.

I am good at learning.

What is the main reason students get good grades?

When students manage to learn hard things in school, what is the main reason?