• One of my favorite books is “Better Learning Through Structured Teaching” by Douglas Fisher and Nancy Frey. It is focused around how to implement The Gradual Release of Responsibility Framework. The following section is one I would like to share from this text:

    When teachers are gradually releasing responsibility to students, formative…Read More

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    • The Gradual Release of Responsibility Framework. I think we feel we are not doing our job unless we are doing more work than the students, but truth is learning doesn’t take place unless the learner assumes responsibility. No way around it. One way to look at this is our work goes on behind the scenes and creating the learning environment. In…Read More

  • Here are great tools that will allow you to give students immediate feedback and provide yourself with real-time data. I use these in my classroom on a regular basis! Great assessment tools!

    1. Play a quick formative assessment game. There are lots of great techy options here. Kahoot!. Quizizz. Quizlet Live. The list goes on and on. If we want…Read More

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    My Top 3 Formatives

    There are many assessment practices that I use that have yielded tremendous benefits for students. I use formative assessments for quick, continual assessing of student learning. The purpose of formative assessments is to capture data to inform my instruction. It lets me know which students are struggling…Read More

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    “When am I ever going to use this?”

    The biggest question I hear more than I enjoy is, “When am I ever going to use this?” No teacher likes to hear this, especially when they’ve worked so hard to create notes, practice, and activities for that topic, and especially when the subject is the teacher’s passion. It’s almost insult…Read More

  • Our district uses MAP (Measures of Academic Progress). The MAP assessment allows an insight to our students growth compared to other students in the nation. Each child’s performance is compared to the National average of other students in the same grade level. Student profiles make the data easy to understand. The student progress reports o…Read More

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