Barbara Delaney
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Who am I
School
Bellingham Memorial Middle School
My Formative Assessment Cycle Plan for next year 2011-2012=
I plan on reviewing data from each unit to determine what areas are weakest. Gordon (new PIMSE teacher) who is the other 6th grade teacher and I will share this information. Then we will share how we teach these units, considering time of year, identify skills needed to successfully complete new skill, and plan new ideas to teach these skills. We will also add skill builders for review of skills needed to begin new unit. Students that are weak in the prior skills needed will be identified and tutored prior to beginning new unit. In addition, I plan to have all 5th grade students create accounts this year and assign summer skill builder work for those incoming 6th graders hoping to strengthen or maintain these skills. This summer build some hints into my homework and tag with skills.
Text Books I use
Scott Foresman Addision Wesley (ten years old) Connected Math Program (older version)
My ASSISTment plan, organized by units
How I use ASSISTments
1. Homework-Teacher can track completion and achievement to adjust learning progression daily. Students engage in homework through correction feedback, self correction and identification of misunderstandings in learning goals.
2. Skill builders reviewing with ARRS to continue to practice and/or tutor completed goals throughout the year in preparation for state testing.
3. Formative assessments to identify populations for flexible classroom grouping with assignment structured to identify levels of learning progression. Question one being the lowest level and building on learning goals with each question. Identifies students needing re-teaching and students who test out.
4. Pre and post unit tests to measure achievement of learning goals.
5. Skills review to assess/review prior knowledge for preparation of upcoming units. Identifies students who may need re-teaching of skills necessary to succeed in new learning goals.
6. Analysis of weekly data report to adjust the learning progression and identify any at-risk student.
7. Use of data to support parent meetings or as work samples in special education reviews. Sometimes as simple as no homework completion can explain lack of effective progress.
8. Open response practice, student/teacher scored and classroom discussion on content and written communication.
9. Challenge work for advanced students.
10. Data driven assignments for extra practice and/or re-assessment for at risk groups.
Other
My plan is to use ASSISTment on several levels but one step at a time as I learn. I will be supporting a team that is full inclusion and I plan to do pre-assessment of unit or standard. From this data I will differentiate my unit to support all levels with the support of my Special Ed teacher and my PIMSE Fellow, Peter Swire. Next, I will create ASSISTment quick sets for daily homework to drive my daily lessons. At some point I will take students to computer lab for post assessments depending on availability and timing for computer labs.
I created a spreadsheet for my textbook lessons for Scott Foresman Addison Wesley 6th Math (old version)connecting ASSISTments problem sets as a reference.
See spreadsheet on google docs
6th Grade Spreadsheet of Problem Sets
