Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 24, 2020

Curriculum-Based Assessment (CBA), often equated with Curriculum-Based Measurement (CBM), is any form of assessment that measures progress toward fulfillment of a stated curriculum. Once these are in place, you devise the assessments — formative and summative — that will provide the evidence of achievement.

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Catlin Tucker

MAY 11, 2020

Will you collect formative assessment data to assess prior knowledge or check for understanding? Below is a document that details each building block, the objective of that activity, and the technology tools teachers can use to engage students in that type of learning activity online. OnlineBuildingBlocks.

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Catlin Tucker

OCTOBER 3, 2016

This summer I read Starr Stackstein’s book Hacking Assessment: 10 Ways to Go Gradeless in a Traditional Grades School. We shared this “Ongoing Assessment” document with each student via Google Classroom. My students had a real voice in their assessments. Instead, assessment became a conversation.

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Catlin Tucker

JULY 24, 2020

Teachers can present students with an unfamiliar problem or prompt to pique their interest, ask them to generate questions about a topic, or assess their prior knowledge. This activity can happen in the classroom or online. Google Forms Kahoot!

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Catlin Tucker

NOVEMBER 29, 2020

Encourage self-assessment. Self-assessment exercises encourage students to develop their metacognitive muscles while providing the teacher with useful information about the factors that are positively or negatively impacting student engagement. Regularly ask students to reflect on their participation and engagement in breakout rooms.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 24, 2020

We’ve developed “Look for” documents to support teachers and administrators in envisioning how this fusion could work in elementary and middle school classrooms. What are “Look for” documents? In this context, a CT “Look for” document defines and makes CT practices measurable by identifying subcomponents of each CT practice.

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Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 22, 2018

If the teacher is the only person thinking critically about learning goals, progress, skill development, curriculum design, and assessment, that is a missed opportunity. Ongoing Self-Assessment Documents. I share an ongoing self-assessment document with my students via Google Classroom. SMARTGoalsStudents.

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Catlin Tucker

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

We discussed strategies for collecting formative assessment data to ensure we knew what support students needed from us as they worked. Instead of sharing individual documents, our shared drive provided us with a virtual storage bucket for our resources that we all had access to at any time. interdisciplinaryproject.

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Catlin Tucker

MAY 1, 2019

Nothing can replace this formal assessment, but it’s helpful to teach students to track their words per minute between these reading fluency assessments. In a coaching session with a second-grade teacher, I suggested we try using Voice Typing in Google Documents to help students track how many words they read in a minute.

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Catlin Tucker

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Two year ago, I decided I was all done taking grading home and moved all feedback and assessment into my classroom , so I was hopeful the comment bank would make giving real-time feedback in class even easier. Teachers who have not created a comment bank in Google Classroom yet, the document below walks you through the process.

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Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

Engagement Active involvement in learning that is relevant, valuable, and interesting Representation Access to multiple ways to experience or receive information Action and Expression Set goals, monitor and track progress toward goals, engage in metacognitive skill-building through self-assessment and demonstrate knowledge in a variety of ways.

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Catlin Tucker

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Create and Share a Planning Document in Advance of the Conversation. One way to help students prepare for an online discussion is with a planning document that is shared like any other assignment at the start of the week. Ask Students to Assess Their Engagement and Participation.

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Catlin Tucker

NOVEMBER 7, 2020

Identify Standards and Skills Starting from a place of the standards provides teachers with a clear road map for designing both the learning activities within the playlist and the rubric they will use to assess student learning at the end of the playlist. Should I build my playlist in a digital document or slide deck? Not necessarily.

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Catlin Tucker

JUNE 28, 2021

color-coding, setting reminders, embedding links to planning documents) made it exponentially more effective as a planning and organizational tool. Provides a platform where you can organize calendar events and attach links or documents, so everything you need for your lessons is in one place. Please relax and enjoy your summer.

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Catlin Tucker

DECEMBER 3, 2019

As the fall semester comes to a close, many teachers are thinking about final exams or end of the semester summative assessments. First, they can provide students with a formated Google Document, like the one pictured below, and let each team fill in their questions and answers. Often those semester exams cover a lot of information.

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Catlin Tucker

MAY 4, 2020

TIP: I encourage teachers to include the expectations for behavior and participation in the agenda or planning document that they share with students in advance of the conversation. . Ask students to assess their participation online. Ask students to generate their own discussion questions.

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A Principal's Reflections

APRIL 18, 2021

On a typical day when I visit classrooms with principals in my partner districts across the country, both the building and district leaders receive a 1000-to-5000-word document laden with practical feedback. Next, we moved on to formative assessment and then on to questioning and discussion.

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Catlin Tucker

JULY 4, 2017

The real secret to my success is in creating shortcuts right in my Google Documents. If you have a strategy you use to provide feedback or assess student work, please share it! It depends on the day and where we are in our work, but I don’t try to provide feedback on the entire paper all at once.

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Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 16, 2021

Teachers are freed from orchestrating a lesson and able to conference with learners about their progress, provide feedback on work in progress, or conduct side-by-side assessments. As students prepare for an assessment, create a board with activities that target key vocabulary, concepts, and skills. Designing Choice Boards.

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Catlin Tucker

DECEMBER 11, 2020

In my latest book, Balance with Blended Learning , I write about strategies that turn everyday tasks, like giving feedback, assessing student work, and conferencing with students about progress into opportunities for connection. It is ideal if both the teacher and student have access to the planning document during the conference.

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Catlin Tucker

APRIL 17, 2017

In January I wrote a blog post titled “ New Year’s Resolution: I’m Moving ALL Assessment into the Classroom.” As my students wrote, I jumped into their Google Documents in suggesting mode and made edits. ” I’m here to update everyone. It’s been amazing! It’s not that my students aren’t writing.

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A Principal's Reflections

APRIL 2, 2023

Abolishing the routine of announced observations, having teachers provide artifacts of evidence to show the bigger picture since you can never see all that is done in a single observation, and prioritizing the collection assessments over lesson plans can also be effective.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 9, 2024

Grading assignments with annotations Grading assignments with annotations offers educators a dynamic way to provide feedback and assess student work effectively. Page navigation: This feature allows you to jump to specific pages in a document with multiple pages. Search document: Look for specific words or phrases in the file.

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Catlin Tucker

APRIL 11, 2019

I provide each group with a Google Document that has the target standards in the left-hand column. Some groups opt to write their plans on a paper version of my Google Document, some like to sketch out their plan on a big whiteboard (and take a photo), and others prefer to collaborate online typing on the same Google Document.

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A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

Consider less of a focus on lesson plans and more on assessment by collecting these two weeks into the future. As you come across research that supports the types of effective pedagogical techniques you wish to see in your classrooms, archive it in a document that you can refer to when writing up observations.

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Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 12, 2017

I’ve blogged about grading for mastery of skills instead of the accumulation of points and ditching my traditional grade book in favor of an ongoing assessment document. I identify target skills and assess these critical skills over the course of the grading period.

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Neo LMS

JUNE 3, 2021

As teachers, we need to be able to check in with students to see how they are doing, first and foremost, and to assess their progress in our class. How do I assess students ? Should all students take a digital assessment, or should I provide a paper assessment for students in the classroom?

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Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Forms are popular in schools for assessments, data collection, and a slew of other reasons. The completed document can be pushed out via link or embedded into blogs and websites. PDFs are a favorite document among teachers. Scan completed document into computer (hope the scanner ap works). Find a pen.

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Catlin Tucker

OCTOBER 14, 2020

” Then they can hyperlink the images to online resources or digital document with directions. That way, students can document their learning in their slide deck, which is easier for teachers to access. Once teachers make a copy of this template, they can click “View” at the top of their copy and select “Master.”

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 16, 2023

Simple Steps for Research Paper Writing and the Importance of Samples Research papers are academic writings that offer rigorous analysis, evaluation, assessment, and interpretation of a specific topic. The primary purpose of encouraging students to jot down a research paper is to assess their writing and research skills.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 15, 2024

“The content presented in this blog is the result of my creative imagination and not intended for use, reproduction, or incorporation into any artificial intelligence training or machine learning systems without prior written consent from the author.” ” Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years.

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Neo LMS

MARCH 15, 2022

For this to happen, teachers can opt for a mix of game-based learning tools, conducting a quick assessment or social and emotional learning (SE)L check-in, or asking students to create and share what they have learned in a way that meets their interests. Read more: Spring into creativity with these 5 digital tools!

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Catlin Tucker

MAY 23, 2017

Click To Tweet They submit work, that work is assessed by the teacher, and the teacher enters a score into a gradebook. Grading and assessment are probably the most time-consuming aspect of a teacher’s job. I give students time every single day to open this shared document and select a piece of work to reflect on.

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

I can include quick formative assessment tools, drawing or brainstorming contributions from everyone and even 3d and virtual field trips. These are documents that you can adapt from other teachers after finding them on the web or the Hyperdocs website. I’ve blogged before about 10 Ways to Use Screencasts for Formative Assessment.

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Catlin Tucker

OCTOBER 10, 2021

Screencastify allows you to insert multiple-choice questions to check for understanding and collective formative assessment. Instead, give them opportunities to document their thinking with drawings and art. You can use Screencastify (a new feature ) or Edpuzzle to insert questions into the video itself.

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Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 22, 2019

In the last two blogs, I have focused on strategies teachers can use to 1) assess prior knowledge before a lesson and 2) check for understanding during a lesson. I’ve suggested that teachers build mechanisms into their lessons to collect formative assessment data. The third piece to this puzzle is a post-lesson reflection.

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Catlin Tucker

MARCH 11, 2018

Finally, they have to reflect on their learning and set goals for themselves in their ongoing assessment document or learning log. They have to think critically about their specific skills using the exemplar provided by the teacher and the rubric.

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