Transcript ALTERNATIVE ASSESSMENT

Alternative
Assessment
Please sit with
teachers from your
level
Great Performances:
Larry Lewin
• Info-In: All instructional strategies we use to teach our
students
• Info-Out: Gives us ways to give new
formative/summative assessments
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Writing
Oral
Graphics
Construct
• “Checkbric”: easy & practical for the classroom
• Fun for students
Strategy #1: Photo
Snapshots
• While reading, students pause in between
sections, & take a “snapshot” of important
points or main ideas
• Useful as a note taking device or a formative
assessment
• Draw a picture & caption
• Model this strategy before allowing students
to use independently
Photo Snapshot
Examples
• PG. 1 from Great Performances Booklet
• 8th Grade Quiz on George Washington
Strategy #2: Comic Strip
• PG. 37-38
• Build Your Page• You need a title, name, _______ squares
• Insert You Dialogue• Print all dialogue! Neatness counts
• Use the 3 main ways to identify the speaker…
• Narrator: Storyline box above or below the
illustration
• Dialogue: Words spoken out loud
• Thoughts: words thought, but not spoken
Strategy #2: Comic Strip
• Insert You Characters• Stick figures are wonderful!
• Each time you draw a character, they should look the
same- your reader needs to be able to tell which
character is which (clothing & color will help with this)
• Use body posture and/or facial expressions to show
emotions
• Thoughts: words thought, but not spoken
• Backdrop & Coloring• AFTER you’ve written the dialogue and filled in your
main characters, then fill in the background
• Include props they would need
• Remember, your reader must be able to SEE them to
UNDERSTAND THEM
• You comic strip should be in full color
COMIC STRIP IDEAS…
• For a historical event
• Summarize important events novel
• Show a scientific process- Sound could be
good here
• Student teaching younger sibling a math
problem
Checkbric
• First decide on “targets” for grading
• EX: Content, Grammar/Spelling/Usage, Format
• Half check list & half rubric
• Making rubrics student friendly & a pro-active
process
• Show comic strip checkbric
DISCUSSION
• What may work for your level?
• What will not?
• What modifications can you make to make
these strategies effective for your grade?
Strategy #3: RAFT
• Writing- Can be used as a summative or
formative assessment
• R=Role: Who are You?
• A=Audience: To Whom is this Written?
• F= Format: What form will it take?
• T=Topic: What is the topic?
RAFT
Role: Who are You?
Audience: To whom
is this written?
Format: What form
will it take?
Topic: What is the topic
One parallel line
The other parallel line
A (love) rejection
letter
Why we just don’t
connect
Parent plant
Offspring plant
A private talk about
“the birds and the
bees”
I must tell you about
reproduction, cross
pollination and
dominant/recessive traits
Martin Luther King
TV Audience of 2010
Speech
The Dream Revisited
Semicolon
Middle Schoolers
Diary Entry
I Wish You Really
Understood Where I
belong
RAFT Examples
• PG. 22-23, 27 from Great Performances Booklet
• Red Ribbon Week RAFT
Strategy #4: PQP “Talk
Back” Memo
• Letter to the editor of the book/author of the
story
• Targets: Understand the material, wrote
respectfully to my audience, gave maximum
effort
• Praise: I think you did a good job with….
• Question: What did you mean by…
• Polish: Suggestions for Improvement. ExampleI think the story would’ve been better if….
PQP Examples
• PG. 17, 16, 13, 14 from Great Performances
Booklet
Study Guide/Technical
Guides/Cliff Notes
• May be especially useful for math, science
• Show examples of what these formats like
first
• Possible way for advanced students to explain
materials to their classmates
• Examples: P.20, 21 of Great Performances
Booklet
Criteria Cards
• Criteria required for various types of
assessments
• Help clarify expectations
• Easily expose students to a variety of formats
Criteria Card Examples
• Word Document
• Differentiated Activities: p. 25
• Large Example- Next Slide
Blog Criteria Card:
-Posted on a web page
-Clearly stated writer’s opinion
on topic
-Has supporting evidence and
facts
-Includes link to resources,
pictures, or video
-Correct grammar and spelling
-Allows for comments from
others
DISCUSSION
• What may work for your level?
• What will not?
• What modifications can you make to make
these strategies effective for your grade?
Bell Ringers