Checks For understanding

Checks For Understanding

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​Quizziz Lesson with questons

by Kara Floyd

​Leaders Of Their Own Learning

​Transforming Schools through

Student Engaged Assessment

​by Ron Berger

​Leah Rugen

​Libby Woodfin

​page 59 of the book

​Chapter 2

​"Checking for Understanding during Daily Lessons".....

Poll

Have you ever seen this book

before or heard of it?

• Yes, have read it an love it

• Yes, have heard of it and know a little

• Yes have heard of it but know nothing about it

• Never seen it, never heard of it

​The 'Leaders of Their Own Learning' book has been selected by our Administration/leadership as "highlight book" that the leadership team has had access to

and had been instructed to read some of, and incorporate into both our own instruction

as well as into our respective teams.

Copyright 2014 by John Wiley and Sons, Inc. Published by Jossey-Boss books.

​The Checks for Understanding pages

are pages 54-92 of the book

​Quote:

​"If a teacher gives a lecture and askes students questions about it, the evidence she gathers will be limited. A deeper level of student understanding including the ability to apply knowledge to a new situation or problem - transfer - will only be evident by engaging students in a task."

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​"(cfu's)...provide meaningful opportunities for students to grapple with new material and apply their learning and for teachers to assess understanding." pps 63-64

Multiple Choice

Checks for understanding are:

• summative tests

• an opportunity for a student to grapple with new material and apply their learning (understanding, not just reiterating)

• formative quizzes

• answering questions during the lesson

Open Ended

What do you think the difference is between a 'check for understanding' and a test, quiz or other assessment?

Fill in the Blanks

Poll

Do you think you should preplan some checks for understanding strategic questions and tasks to monitor student learning?

• yes

• no

• these should be in my curricula

Poll

What do you think would be the best check for understanding opportunities of the ones below?

• "List the types of reactions/equations covered in class today:"

• "How would you solve (this problem) with the new knowledge you gained today?"

• questions that elicit prior knowledge and draw a connection to the current knowledge

• "Describe what the learning target was for today and how you felt you met it or didn't meet it:"

Multiple Choice

Does the 5E model we use currently in the district for science lessons intend to provide students with the meaningful opportunities needed for transfer (of learning)?

• Yes

• No

Open Ended

What will your next step be for incorporating new and varied checks for understanding in your lessons?

Poll

Do you think these sort of 'Checks for Understanding' provide meaningful data that can be used for the purposes of targeted remediations?

• Yes

• No

• Yes, but not as good as other assessment types

• Yes but only in conjunction with the other assessment types

​Thank you for participating!

​I hope this gave you 'food for thought' and I have the book if you would like to reference it or review it or just have access to the information in this chapter!

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​Please play the Blooket as an 'exit ticket' or sorts...and think about if any of the questions are good check for understandings.....