Skip to main content

Home/ OLLIE Iowa/ Contents contributed and discussions participated by lisamsuya

Contents contributed and discussions participated by lisamsuya

lisamsuya

Article(s): Self- and Peer-Assessment Online - 1 views

  • determined that students involved in peer review perform better academically than peers graded only by their instructors
    • lisamsuya
       
      And, isn't that the purpose and job of the instructor to support the academic performance of ALL students.
  • feedback from an instructor, or mentor that is qualified
    • lisamsuya
       
      This makes sense to me. It is sort of like a coach of a basketball team (especially beginning basketball.) The reason there is a coach is because they have knowledge beyond what the player does and is necessary for the player to grow. I do know that players can learn from each other, but there are situations when the coach or instructor is the expert and students will learn best when evaluated by the instructor.
  • review their own work with an eye for improvement
    • lisamsuya
       
      How do we as instructors help students to understand that revising or self-assessment is just a means towards improvement and not a step to be skipped or resisted?
  • ...2 more annotations...
  • I do not recommend including an option on the peer evaluation for team members to make comments about their peers.
    • lisamsuya
       
      Good to keep in mind.
  • Potentially increases lecturer workload by needing to brief students on the process as well as on-going guidance on performing self evaluation.
    • lisamsuya
       
      It seems that in some situations it would be beneficial to take the time to teach students how to self-assess and peer-assess because it would save time in the future so that students ha more than one resource to help them improve.
lisamsuya

ollie-afe-2018: Article: Attributes from Effective Formative Assessment (CCSSO) - 4 views

  • d make adjustments to instruction accordingly
    • lisamsuya
       
      I have struggled with the idea of adjusting instruction on the fly or overnight especially when there are 125 kids to adjust for. But, I did appreciate the ideas in the lessons of this week that talked about having a bank of activities, videos, etc. at my fingertips to use just at the right time.
  • explicit learning progressions
    • lisamsuya
       
      Jim Knight recommends something similar to learning progressions, learning maps. I haven't utilized that strategy enough, but I think I will make it a goal to do so.
  • on a classroom culture characterized by a sense of trust between and among students and their teachers; by norms of respect, transparency, and appreciation of differences; and by a non-threatening environment.
    • lisamsuya
       
      I would add that it actually needs to be a school culture for students to become involved in their learning, not just a class culture. I think the annotations to this article about most students do not act responsible for their own learning support this. For students to become partners, they need much practice and opportunities to do so in numerous classes in different formats and structures as described in the first four attributes of assessments. Plus, the affective attributes of a school as described in #5 . .. respect, transparency, appreciation of differences have to also be present for students to feel like partners. That is so hard to get a whole school to exhibit these qualities. But, I submit that one classroom cannot do it on their own.
lisamsuya

ollie-afe-2018: Building a Better Mousetrap - 3 views

  • description of the work rather than judgments about the work.
    • lisamsuya
       
      Descriptive vs evaluative is another way to think about this. It is difficult to keep evaluate words from our feedback and from rubric descriptions but descriptive feedback is more beneficial than evaluative feedback for students learning.
  • we need a rubric to judge our performance—
lisamsuya

ollie-afe-2018: Educational Leadership: The Quest for Quality--article - 14 views

  • Making decisions that affect individuals and groups of students
    • lisamsuya
       
      I have always disliked the notion of adults thinking a test score will determine a child's future, and then impacting that future by giving that child the message that their test scores are who they are.
  • organize the learning targets represented in the assessment into a written test plan that matches the learning targets represented in the curriculum.
    • lisamsuya
       
      This is difficult but important work. In my experience teachers are not well trained in creating assessments that are aligned in this way. I have attended some trainings in this, and as an instructional coach, I try to support quality assessment creation by teachers. However, in the long run, I think that it is better if schools adopt materials that include assessments that are aligned to common core and are already vetted by organizations such as EdReports to be of high quality. It saves times, and the models from these materials actual teach the teachers along the way of how to create tests aligned to learning targets
lisamsuya

ollie1 (Peterman): Iowa Online Teaching Standards - 2 views

  • such as with the Iowa Core (Varvel I.A, IT
    • lisamsuya
       
      It is important to awknowledge that online instruction is to be aligned with Iowa Core standards. That is a good reminder not to use technology for technology's sake, but for a greater purpose.
  • which may include (but is not limited to) age and ability level, multiple intelligences, didactic conversation, student developmental influences, constructivism, behaviorism, cognitivism, connectivism, and group theory (
    • lisamsuya
       
      Because the learning theories are specifically mentioned in the standards, one should review or increase their knowledge of these theories. It seems like these theories could be information that is added to the Ollie online courses.
lisamsuya

SoftChalk - If It's Not Easy, It's Not SoftChalk - 0 views

  •  
    This is the blog for SoftChalk. It doesn't look to be updated very often, but it does let users know when updates are happening, and the SoftChallk Twitter Feed is also on this webpage.
lisamsuya

Showcase - Sample Lessons - View Examples of Interactive Lessons, E-courses & Learning ... - 0 views

  •  
    Sample lessons created in SoftChalk. One does not need a SoftChalk account to preview the lessons.
lisamsuya

iowaonlinelearning - Teaching Standards - 17 views

  • Iowa Core
    • lisamsuya
       
      It is important that the Iowa Online Teaching Standards make reference to the Iowa Core at the beginning because technology and online tools are for the purpose of teaching core curriculum.
  • age and ability level, multiple intelligences, didactic conversation, student developmental influences, constructivism, behaviorism, cognitivism, connectivism, and group theory
    • lisamsuya
       
      I think it is interesting that these particular theories are mentioned in the standards, and it seems important to have a refresher of these theories in the online learning courses.
1 - 8 of 8
Showing 20 items per page