Reading: Ch 8

3~S Process

S	What statements can you make about the reading? What did you learn that others need to know? Using analysis of data from assignments help tell a data-story of learning and progression in a classroom. 3 methods to use data: 1. understand assignments in the larger curriculum and related to standards. 2. analyze the effectiveness of the assignments and instruction 3. provides feedback on the supports teachers have to create assignments. Calibrating assignments is a collaborative processes between teachers and administrators to evaluate and improve the use of assignments across the board in a school as well as vertically from grade level to grade level. Standards in Practice: a group of teachers analyze one teacher's task in order to improve upon instruction and use of assignments. Data can reveal what conditions either help or impede teach assignments. Top five problems when teaching assignments: 1. rigor and challenge 2. time 3. explicitly taught 4. aren't really assignments 5. no desire to do assignments
S	What strategies will you try? How will you apply your learning? I will develop a way to collect class sets of assignments as a way to analyze the progress that is being made as well as where my instruction may be lacking. I can share this information with my colleagues both as a way to get advice on improving my instruction as well as a way to inform them on their own instruction and use of assignments. I will design my assignments in such a way that is rigorous, time appropriate, explicit, used as instruction, and engaging to students.
S	What is the source? Where did you get the information? Assignments Matter: Making the Connection That Help Students Meet Standards, Ch 8 “Assignments as Data” pp153-167