Week 2 Assignment 2
THE WEEK AHEAD: WEEK 2
Greetings! The topic for this week is The Assessment Cycle. This week you will have nine selections to read, all of which may be found in your CLASSROOM MATERIALS=>Topic 2 Resources. Take notes from these materials for use in your assignments and discussion posts for the week.
Your readings for the week ahead:
· You are responsible for reading:
· Classroom Assessment: What Teacher Need to Know (Chapters 3-5)
· “How to be Assessment Literate, No Matter Your Role” (Article)
· “Assessment Literacy and Student Learning: The Case for Explicitly Developing Students ‘Assessment Literacy’” (Article)
· “Data Literacy is Statistical Literacy” (Article)
· “Professional Learning Communities Bring Benefits for Teachers, Students” (Article)
· “The Benefits of Collaboration” (Article)
· “Using the Assessment Cycle as a Tool for Collaboration” (Article—Use https://lopes.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aci&AN=17141235&site=eds-live&scope=site&custid=s8333196&groupid=main&profile=eds1 in place of the broken link.)
· “Effective Professional Learning Communities? The Possibilities for Teachers as Agents of Change in Schools” (Article)
· “Three Key Benefits of Teacher Learning Communities” (Article)
Your Tasks for the week ahead:
· Completing and documenting 2 hours of Field Experience.
· Observe birth to age three children in a childcare center.
· Observe multiple age groups for safety regulations and issues.
· Interview a K-3 teacher that:
· Has PLC experience
· Worked collaboratively with a team
· Has analyzed student data
· Determined appropriate interventions for all learning levels
· Monitored learning progress of students to determine growth
· Interview an instructional coach or administrator that:
· Has facilitated a PLC
· Address the following questions in both interviews:
· How does your school implement PLCs?
· What do you focus on during the PLC meetings?
· How do PLCs support collaboration with colleagues to identify common curriculum goals and evaluate progress towards the goals?
· How would you change or modify PLCs?
· What is the biggest change you have seen in student learning since you started collaborating with other educators?
· Use any remaining time assisting in classroom instruction and support.
· Write a 250–500-word summary that includes:
· A comparison or description of the interview findings.
· How you will apply the information and what you learned in your future professional practice.
· Professional Learning Community Presentation on Assessment Literacy by:
APA Guidelines and Solid Academic Writing!
· Creating a 10-12 slide digital teacher presentation by including:
· A title slide and reference slide.
· Speaker’s notes for the remaining slides.
· Defining PLC and the benefits of collaborating with colleagues as part of the assessment cycle to assess student progress and guide instructional planning
· Explaining how the PLC can assist teachers as they move through their assessment cycles.
· Defining and compare data literacy and assessment literacy, explaining how to use both to improve instruction.
· Summarizing a vision for the school, as a whole, for using PLCs to collaborate and plan for learning.
· Addressing technological tools or resources that can be used to monitor student progress and share data with the PLC.
· Including opportunities to include students in the assessment cycle process.
· Outlining models of appropriate strategies to provide feedback to students and families.
· Supporting the presentation with 2-3 citations and references from scholarly resources.
· Following APA 7 guidelines where needed.
· Responding to the Topic #2 discussion questions 1 and 2.
· Acquiring participation points within the Topic #2 forums.
Your upcoming Tasks:
· Clinical Field Experience B: Lesson Plan Design
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“You shall thus observe My statues and keep My judgements, so as to carry them out, that you may live securely on the land” (Leviticus 25:18, NASV).