8th Annual Rowan Literacy Consoritum 2013-2014
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8th Annual Rowan Literacy Consoritum
2013-2014Dr. Midge Madden and Dr. Valarie Lee
OCTOBER 4th Session
Meet Midge Madden
Guatemala
Family
Midge Madden
• Coalition for Essential Schools• Qualitative Practitioner Research
o Seminar in Reading• Writing Interests
o Writing Instructiono Critical Literacieso 21st Century literacies
+ Getting to Know Valarie Lee
• A serious researcher who laughs … and likes ice cream!
• Published author – JAAL and Information Age Press
• High School English Teacher from Colorado
• Rowan’s Content Literacy guru
+Expert on Boys: Author, Researcher, and Family Peacemaker
My Three Sons
Team nameMembers...Four traits that describe the team...Relative of..Lovers of...Who feel...Who need...Who give...Who would like to see...Resident of...Team name
Get to know each other:
Bio Poems
● constructivist in nature● inquiry community● sustained, ongoing intensive
work● participant-driven● collaborative● teacher network
What RLC is…..
Ted Talk- Angela Lee Duckworth
Effective Writing Instruction
and Formative Assessment
in the Common Core
Our Theme for the Year
Classroom Vignettes
● Each team member read a vignette
● Share vignettes as a team
● Discuss details in the vignettes you consider elements of effective
elements of formative assessment
What are elements of effective formative
assessments?
All too often, the term “formative assessment” conjures images of quizzes and tests, while in reality, formative assessment is a process used by teachers and students during instruction that provides feedback to adjust ongoing teaching and learning.
● Clarifying, sharing, and understanding learning intentions and criteria for success
● Engineering effective classroom discussions, activities, and learning tasks that elicit evidence of learning
● Providing feedback that moves learning forward
● Activating learners as instructional resources for one another
● Activating learners as owners of their own learning-(Dylan Wiliam)
Successful Implementation of Formative Assessments
Shawn: “I used to do a lot of explaining, but now I do a lot of questioning.
I used to do a lot of talking, but now I do a lot of listening.
I use to think about teaching the curriculum, but now I think about teaching the student.”
-(Heritage, 2010, p. 4).
Implementing formative assessment as a process
Quickwrite: What do you think?
Globe and Mail Article
● Identify the author’s claim. ● Using your T-chart, record your beliefs● Make only statements that support the
author’s claim. Find and speak from places in yourselves that honestly connect with him.
● After everyone’s finished, discuss. Work hard at believing as much of the argument as you can.
● Record these for the group on chart paper.
Believing Game
What is interesting or helpful about this view?
What would you notice if you believed this view?
In what sense or under what conditions might these ideas be true?
How can this view possibly be right?Avoid disagreeing or making negative
or challenging statements.
Guiding Questions for Believing
21st Century Writing
Believing Doubting
Ted Talk: Power of Writing
21st Century Writing
Believing Doubting
What did you notice about the statements and questions?
Did the experience affect your point of view, even if only slightly? How? or Why not?
“Certainty is rarely if ever possible and we increase the likelihood of getting things wrong if we succumb to the hunger for it.” -Peter Elbow
Debrief
Team Focus Area
Midpoint Sharing: Team focus/work on Wordpress in November and December.
Consultancy Protocol to get feedback from other teams
End: Team Digital product you can amplify
Looking ahead….
• Select presenter who will take notes and not participate in discussion
• Presenter: Scribe the focus as it is now
• Layer One: Listening and Peeling• Layer Two: Peeling and Probing• Getting to the Core• Presenter responds using question
prompts• Chart the question or dilemma for
team focus
Peeling the Onion Protocol
● District Team Names including grade levels
● Picture of team with caption of names
● Team Dilemma and/or focus
● Send to [email protected]
RLC Word Presshttp://rowanliteracyconsortiu
m.org
Team Time for Planning
Steven Zemelman
Sarah Brown Wessling
Our Speakers for 2013-2014
Send Tweet to @RowanLitC
What did you get from today? What do you need from us to help you understand these dilemmas surrounding writing and assessment?
#Needtoknow
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