TED 633 Ten Takeaways from:

Checking for understanding:

Formative Assessment techniques
Chris Harris
Independent Independent learning stated by Frey and Fisher is a
daunting task and frankly unfair in regards to new

learning materials. It is the process of collaborative learning

and guided practices in which students can get to a
point to be comfortable with new content. As
independent learning is concerned students need to
p. 257 be familiar enough with a topic and have a minor
aspect in which they would be solely responsible for
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Accountable Talk Accountable talk teaches students to be respectful
when in an environment where they are hearing and
voicing opinions with many other students. There was
a strategy I use to use regarding communicating with

p. 367 other students that was very structured in how they

respond and talk to one another. As I felt the students
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perhaps posted in the room would be a great addition
to a respectful classroom.
Response Cards This activity I actually have used in the past and am
excited to use again as it allows for students
participation without the fear of being wrong on a
direct public platform. I would use this strategy so that

p. 829 students could participate in an indirect manner but

having used their own processing to establish what
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Frey and Fisher it promotos complete participation
rather than the same few students.
Revising Pacing This is a strategy in which the teachers collaborate to
come up with the best strategies for student

Guides, Reviewing development. There is a direct benefit to teachers who

discuss formative and summative and assessments,

Assessments, as well as pacing calendars. The teacher

collaboration sessions are critical as it is one of the
Reteaching, and only ways that teachers can cross examine their
methods in order to ensure positive students
Forming development. It is the opportunity for teachers to
share materials, discuss effective and ineffective
Intervention teaching strategies in efforts to the develop their
ongoing teaching techniques.
Groups
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Read-Write-Pair- This might just be my favorite idea, as I have been
looking for ways to incorporate more reading and

Share writing in Spanish class, this would be a great

opportunity. It includes the aspect of students
collaborating, similar to think-pair-share, by writing
and reading students can have the comfortability of
p. 1095 sharing with a partner before submission to the
teacher. The benefits of students collaborating and
Kindle Edition processing grammatical structures in Spanish in
written and reading comprehension is simply an
opportunity that I have to incorporate in my lessons.
Misuses of Tests in When students are conditioned to “study to the test”
they become robotic in that they are learning what's

the Classroom necessary for a good grade on a test or class. The

problem is that when the student should be

p. 1587 developing skills to analyze information they are

instead studying to a specific kind of test. Ultimately
Kindle Edition this type of education is enabling as it doesn’t allow
for the development of necessary skills needed to
succeed in a real world setting. I find all to often that
students only care about what's on the test as it will
get the, the grade to get to the school they want to go
to, but my question is… then what? They have this
mentality because the structure of education in this
country.
Checking Your Own As Fisher explains the important to check for student
understanding he talks about the importance of our

Understanding own understanding and links it to our individual

development and growth. I believe that as educators it
is important to participate in PLC’s and talk about new
instructional strategies with other educators in efforts
P. 1957 to not become stagnant. In my little experience I have
found that teachers can get comfortable with a way of
Kindle Edition doing things this can conflict against growth.
Checking for As students develop no matter the subject I feel that
we get into a bad habit of teaching that there is

Understanding always a right and wrong answer. In some situation

that may be true but as we look for the one answer we

Encourages often overlook the method of interpretation which

could imply multiple correct answers. As a teacher I
Looking for feel it is our job to educate students so that they may
be able to take in information and calculate the most
Multiple logical answer individually and it is often not the
same. It’s not always the answer that is important but
Representations of rather the thought process it took to arrive at such an
answer.
Knowledge
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 As mentioned by Fisher and Frey collaborative
Collaborative Learning learning is an essential part to student development,
as it helps students with content retention and as well
as learning to work with others. An essential part to
Pg 233 becoming a global citizen the ability to work with
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Noticing Nonverbal I truly believe that any teachers can appreciate non
verbal cues as the give you a break from calling for the

Cues students attention by creating a routine in the reaction

to a non verbal cue. I have found this to be fascinating
and have yet to incorporate it into my class, but I will
be definitely incorporating some form of nonverbal
P. 435 cues. It also creates organization by routine, when the
teacher does some action the students react. Also as
Kindle Edition a new father the first two years are all non verbal cues,
or at least they are the best most efficient form of
communication.
Refrences Fisher, Douglas. Checking for Understanding:
Formative Assessment Techniques for Your
Classroom, 2nd edition . ASCD. Kindle Edition.