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Linda Clinton

Michigan Assessment Consortium > Home - 1 views

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    "The mission of the Michigan Assessment Consortium is to improve student learning and achievement through a system of coherent curriculum, balanced assessment and effective instruction. We do this by collaboratively Promoting assessment knowledge and practice.Providing professional development.Producing and sharing assessment tools and products." Includes resources and archived videoconferences
Linda Clinton

Book Review: "The Teaching For Understanding Guide - 5 views

I don't think I've seen this book before. It sounds intriguing. I'll have to check it out.

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Monica Orlando

T4 - Talking to the Text - 1 views

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    This is a rubric on the T4 strategy. It discusses what T4 is, how to use it as an assessment tool, what concepts teachers' should model, and gives a rubric for assessing the strategy. Very helpful if you are interested in teaching your students this strategy.
Linda Clinton

Tear & Share - 0 views

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    "With this strategy students will have a chance to: remember, understand, analyze, evaluate, and create. Students work in teams of four to answer four questions about an article they read, a chapter from a novel, or a video they just watched (or whatever you want to assess). After careful analysis of their teammate's work, students will come up with a summary of each question to share with the class."
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    This is an excellent (and fun!) reading comprehension activity!
Linda Clinton

MDE - Common Core State Academic Standards - 1 views

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    Several links to information about the CCSS and the new assessments. Also included are crosswalk documents for the Michigan GLCE and CCSS
Linda Clinton

Book Review: The Cafe Book: Engaging All Students in Daily Literary Assessment and Inst... - 1 views

by Anna Scott (reposted as a topic) The Café Book is written by The Two Sisters, Joan Moser and Gail Boushey. The book is written in conjunction with The Daily 5, also written by them. The Daily...

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started by Linda Clinton on 27 Feb 12 no follow-up yet
Michelle Voelker

Book Review: Focus - Elevating the Essentials to Radically Improve Student Learning - 5 views

http://www.ascd.org/Publications/Authors/Mike-Schmoker.aspx?id=772617157001

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Linda Clinton

Daniel Pinkwater on Pineapple Exam: 'Nonsense on Top of Nonsense' - Metropolis - WSJ - 1 views

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    An article about the NY state assessment we discussed in class.
Linda Clinton

Addressing Summer Reading Setback Among Economically Disadvantaged Elementary Students - 1 views

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    In this longitudinal study, 852 students from high-poverty schools were given a supply of self-selected books on the last day of school for 3 years. Students in the treatment group performed significantly better on the state reading assessment than most students in the control group.
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    This is an important study, and related to the article Brett shared in terms of students selecting books of interest to them.
Michelle Voelker

Mike Schmoker - Focus: Elevating the Essentials to Radically Improve Student Learning - 2 views

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    Mike Schmoker's "Focus" is a tremendous commentary on the elements of good instruction and the current state of education and teaching.
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    This reference text is divided into two sections: "What we teach, How we teach, and Literacy" and "Curriculum, Instruction, and Literacy in the Content areas." If one was to read this book, you would not necessarily need to read it "cover to cover." I believe that Section I is important for all teachers or those who have a hand in education. Section II, because of the way it is divided, could be read based on interests. There are specific discussions about how to integrate literacy into content areas. I felt that the discussion of literacy in mathematics and science was extremely interesting. Mike Schmoker's message was calling educators "back to the basics." As I read, I found myself scribbling in the margins, because the comments being made were so true they were almost "taboo." Schmoker contradicts the current "educational bandwagons" that so many administrators and districts may jump on. He quotes Pfeffer and Sutton, saying "leaders resist simplicity; they are often irrationally enamored by novelty and complexity" (p 16). It was refreshing to read such a strong argument for "pure, effective teaching." Regardless of the technology or other tools in the classroom, without a firm grasp on the ways to provide clear instruction, students will not learn. I have already used sections from this text in my building's PLC time. Though I have not used a specific strategy, I opened the dialogue about what should "be in a good lesson." Schmoker encourages the "five minute limit" where lectures cannot span longer than that before students are given a moment to talk or write. Formative assessments need to be used throughout daily lessons in order for the teacher to be guided into the next portion of the lesson. I have started to integrate more of these checks for understanding into my teaching, and I have found that I catch more misconceptions sooner than I would have normally. I also see that sections I felt required more time were grasped at a faster rate than anticipated
Linda Clinton

Writing by Hand to Create a Deeper Engagement in the Classroom | The Digital Realist - 1 views

  • Neurologists at the University of Indiana found more advanced neural activity in children when they wrote by hand as opposed to typing. An educational psychologist at the University of Washington found that 2nd, 4th, and 6th graders in a study there “expressed more ideas when writing essays by hand versus using a keyboard to compose.”
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      This is contrary to upcoming online writing assessments.
  • emphasizes the importance of taking one’s time by making a connection between writing and drawing: before her students even start writing, she asks them to take fifteen minutes or so to make a sketch of the scene they want to create. When they are done, she has them list all of the sensory details in the picture.
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      Stragegies we use with developing writers...used by a college professor!
  • you are creating the containers where you will eventually do your thinking.  If you are just thinking, on a screen, where you can write so fast and erase so fast, it’s kind of like Frost’s thing of playing tennis without a net.”
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  • “getting your mind on the page, without the interference of the editor, the fake voices, the cleaner-upper, the conformist.”
  • Sellers believes writing by hand can improve literacy by deepening students’ engagement with word and world.
  • They have to do the handwriting thing for thirty minutes a day for thirty days. For many of them, it’s the only time in the day they are alone.  It’s a form of meditation, right? To sit with oneself and discover what’s in there.  Writing by hand, then, is a great way, of creating a conversation with oneself.  That’s vital for the first year writer—maybe the most vital thing.”
  • “And I’m not sure writing by hand is right for every teacher, every writer, every classroom. I just want to make sure we don’t lose methods that really work.”
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    Fascinating!
anonymous

Effective Reading Interventions for Kids With Learning Disabilities | LD Topics | LD On... - 0 views

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    In the last two months, I've had to go to one IEP meeting and one 504 plan meeting for two of my students. In these meetings, we discussed reading strategies to help these students be successful in my class. Even though I teach math, reading the questions for quizzes and tests is challenging for some of my students. I've been looking online for tips on how to write my tests so my students with learning disabilities will do better. I came across this website that gives tips on helping students with disabilities become better readers. Once I find a website or article that talks about accommodating tests for low level readers I will post that as well.
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    You might want to add tags for "assessment" "intervention" "LD" :) +2
Linda Clinton

The Angry Birds Effect « Byron's Babbles - 2 views

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    The author presents a convincing argument for emulating instructional design found in "Angry Birds."
Monica Orlando

Book Review: Clock Watchers: Six Steps to Motivating and Engaging Disengaged Students ... - 8 views

Great question I didn't address in the review. All the examples used are middle to high school oriented and seem to require a level of maturity that elementary students would not possess. I think...

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Linda Clinton

Book Review: 99 Ideas and Activities for Teaching English Learners with The SIOP Model ... - 2 views

"I have found it easiest to focus on using one strategy at a time and practice using it until it becomes part of my routine." This is excellent advice for applying almost anything new in the classr...

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Lauren Scherr

Book Review: Teaching Text Structures (A Key to Nonfiction Reading Success) - 4 views

This is a phenomenal book for teaching text structures. For those who aren't familiar with text structure, it's basically the format that an author chooses to write a text in. Text structure is usu...

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Lauren Scherr

Reading Support Class - Before and During Reading Strategies - 1 views

My student teaching right now is predominately in 6th grade Language Arts classrooms. In addition to these, I am in a 6th grade reading support class and a 7th-8th grade reading support class. I th...

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started by Lauren Scherr on 22 Feb 12 no follow-up yet
Colleen Fell

Book Review: Derrick Jensen's walking on Water - 1 views

I choose Derrick Jensen's book Walking on Water to review, mainly because he offers specific details on how to reform education, but focuses on students' attitudes on writing and reading. Jensen te...

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started by Colleen Fell on 14 Feb 12 no follow-up yet
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