1. Understanding Assessment

2. Resources Lesson Plan Guidelines
Growing Success Pg. 31http://
Growing Success – The Kindergarten Addendum tml
Assessment, Evaluation and Reporting
Learning for All pdf

3. What is it? Informs Instruction Diagnostic and Formative1.
For
What is it?
Informs Instruction
Diagnostic and Formative

4. Nature of Assessment Use of Information
Diagnostic: Occurs before instruction begins in order to determine students’ readiness to learn new knowledge and skills, as well as obtain information about their interests and learning preferences.”
Is used by teachers and students to determine what students already know and can do with respect to the knowledge and skills identified in the overall and specific expectations
teachers can plan instruction and assessment that are differentiated and personalized
work with students to set appropriate learning goals.

5. Nature of Assessment Use of Information
Formative: Occurs during instruction so teachers can provide feedback to students, scaffold next steps, and differentiate in response to student needs.
Is used by teachers to monitor students’ progress towards achieving the overall and specific expectations
teachers can provide timely and specific descriptive feedback to students
scaffold next steps
differentiate instruction and assessment in response to student needs.

6. 2. As
What is it?
Formative

7. 2. As
What is it?
“Explicit fostering of students’ capacity over time to be their own best assessors, but teachers need to start by presenting and modeling external, structured opportunities for students to assess themselves.”

8. Nature of Assessment Use of Information
Formative: occurs frequently and in an ongoing manner during instruction, with support, modeling, and guidance from the teacher.
Used by students to provide feedback to other students (peer assessment)
Monitor their own progress towards achieving their learning goals (self- assessment)
Make adjustments in their learning approaches
Reflect on their learning
Set individual goals for learning.

9. What is it? Summative Assessment3. Of
What is it?
Summative Assessment

10. Nature of Assessment Use of Information
Summative: Occurs at or near the end of a period of learning, and may be used to inform further instruction
Used by the teacher to summarize learning at a given point in time.
Used to make judgments about the quality of student learning on the basis of established criteria,
to assign a value to represent that quality
Supports the communication of information about achievement to students themselves, parents, teachers, and others.

11. What is it?
Ms. Smith is starting a new math unit on addition. She gives her students a work sheet at the beginning of class and asks them to try their best to work through the different questions.
What type of assessment is the work sheet?
Why?

12. What is it?
Ms. Smith is starting a new math unit on addition. She gives her students a work sheet at the beginning of class and asks them to try their best to work through the different questions.
What type of assessment is the work sheet? For (Diagnostic)
Why?
Ms. Smith gave her class the work sheet to see their understanding of addition before she starts the new math unit.

13. What is it?
Mr. Thomas’s students are presenting their bridge projects to the class. Students are showing their learning from their structure unit. After a student presents Ms. Thomas ask the class if anyone would like to share two stars and a wish.
What type of assessment are in this scenario?
Why?

14. What is it?
Mr. Thomas’s students are presenting their bridge projects to the class. Students are showing their learning from their structure unit. After a student presents Ms. Thomas ask the class if anyone would like to share two stars and a wish.
What type of assessment are in this scenario? Of and As
Why? (Of) Culminating activity for their structure’s unit. (As) Students are providing peer- feedback

15. Lesson Plan Description
What is it?
Unit: exaggerated proportions in shape and bright colours
Lesson Plan Description
For this lesson students will take inspiration from The City of Ember book their read in language class. In the book, the City is depicted as quite grey and dull. The main character Lina, pictures in her mind an imaginary colourful city. In this lesson students will take a look at James Rizzi’s artwork Cityscapes. Gathering artistic features from his work, students will develop a cityscape that they believe Lina pictures.  
For this lesson students will work with pastels to plan and create artwork which includes some of the distinguishing features inspired by James Rizzi’s Skyscraper images. During this lesson students will extend their understanding of exaggerated proportions in shape and bright colours for expressive purposes.

16. What is it?

17. What is it? What type of assessment was this?
Assessment for and Assessment as
Why?
Assessment for: the teacher was responsible for filling out the target rubric and providing feedback to students. During this lesson students were extending their understanding of exaggerated proportions in shape and bright colours for expressive purposes.
Assessment as: students are self-assessing their work by completing the checklist.

20. CASI What is it? Which form of assessment?

22. CASI
1) After reviewing this info, do the total scores or individual scores gives you an idea of next steps for students in this diagnostic?
2) Who might you group for instruction and why?