February Do Now (Ice Breaker)

What is the instructional model that requires teachers to release the

responsibility of learning to the students with embedded supports?

• 5E Model

• Madeline Hunter

• Gradual Release Model

• Project Based Learning

Feedback is an on-going process that is used to build confidence in struggling areas, affirm areas of strength, and provide opportunities for goal setting. Feedback is used only by adults. Is this statement true or false?

• True

• False

Only 40% of Ms. Higgenbotthom’s 8th grade ELA students mastered standard RL 8.1 (Cite the textual evidence that most strongly supports an analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text) on the 2nd Benchmark.  What are Ms. Higgenbotthom’s next steps? (Select three responses)

• Reflect on how and when she previously taught that standard

• Review the assessment items from the test on that standard

• Remediate the entire class using previously taught strategy

• Prepare a new strategy to re-teach that standard

At what point during a lesson should formative assessments occur?

• Beginning of class

• After focused instruction

• During the closing

• Throughout the lesson

What makes formative assessments effective?

• When they are used daily

• When they are used daily and are supported by data

• When they are used to provide immediate and make adjustments to instruction

• When they are used daily, used to provide immediate feedback to instruction, and used to make in the moment adjustments to instruction