Chris Jakicic – författare

Built on the process featured in Common Formative Assessment: A Toolkit for PLCs at Work™, this book demonstrates how educators can develop effective and efficient assessments. The authors simplify assessment development to give teacher teams the confidence to write and use team-designed common formative assessments that help ensure all students master essential skills and concepts. Design tasks and assessments that feature the greater rigor and complexity the new standards require. Use assessment data to make adjustments that increase student learning. Explore possible team structures and practices that foster successful use of common assessments.

Benefits

• Learn the different purposes that wide-angle questions and close-up questions serve in reaching assessment goals.

• Understand different types of assessments and what the data gained from each of them can reveal about student learning.

• Frame assessment and feedback methods to pursue the end goal of learning for all.

• Use templates and protocols to unwrap essential learning standards, create performance tasks, plan appropriate assessments, and analyze data.

• Discover a road map that can help guide your work with common assessments.

Contents

1 Framing the Power of Assessment in Professional Learning Communities

2 Starting With the End in Mind

3 Considering Rigor and Complexity

4 Intentionally Planning of Instruction and Assessment

5 Writing Questions That Work

6 Using Data to Support Student Learning

7 Focusing on Feedback and Grappling With Grading

8 Using Common Formative Assessments in Less Traditional Settings

Appendix Road Map for Implementing Common Assessments

Ensure every educator is engaged in the right work with a collective focus on improved student learning. Aligned to the Professional Learning Communities (PLC) at Work® model, this resource includes instructional coaching tools, processes, protocols, templates, tips, and strategies designed to support the multidimensional work of instructional coaches and PLC training. Each chapter includes action steps and reflective coaching activities, as well as suggestions for navigating some of the most common issues instructional coaches face.

Use this book to understand the unique requirements of instructional coaches in building a school that answers the four critical questions of a PLC at Work:

Contents:IntroductionChapter 1: How to Get Started as an Instructional CoachChapter 2: What Do We Want Students to Know and Be Able to Do?Chapter 3: How Will We Know if They Have Learned It?Chapter 4: How Will We Respond When Some Students Do Not Learn?Chapter 5: How Will We Extend the Learning of Students Who Are Already Proficient?Epilogue: Maintaining the Momentum and Sustaining the ProcessReferences and ResourcesIndex

Designed exclusively for teacher teams, this plan book is a one-stop shop for practical PLC information and resources. Inside its pages, you’ll find everything your team needs to thrive from the first day of school to the last. Access forty weekly planning pages, in-depth examples, succinct summaries of PLC concepts, and many more tools that will support your daily collaborative work of championing learning for all.

Use this resource to maintain a healthy collaborative team and stay on top of instruction:

Contents:Part 1: PLC Fundamentals and ProtocolsPart 2: Weekly PlannersPart 3: Epilogue and References

Learn, do, and lead with the guidance of Formative Tools for Leaders in a PLC at WorkⓇ by Kim Bailey and Chris Jakicic. With this practical resource, you''ll first discover how to gather evidence from staff about PLC practices, processes, and products. Then you''ll explore how to use that evidence to gauge the effectiveness of your professional learning community (PLC) and make informed and targeted decisions about your collective next steps for a school culture of continuous improvement.

This book will teach you how to implement professional learning communities more effectively:

Contents:AcknowledgmentsTable of ContentsAbout the AuthorsForewordIntroduction

Part 1Chapter 1: A Culture of Learning for AllChapter 2: The School''s Collaborative StructuresChapter 3: Quality Instructional PracticeChapter 4: Schoolwide Systems of Support

Part 2Chapter 5: A Focus on Getting Clear About What Students Should Know and DoChapter 6: A Focus on How Teams Gather Information About Student LearningChapter 7: A Focus on Supporting Students Who Need Additional Time and SupportChapter 8: A Focus on Responding When Students Have Already Learned

EpilogueReferences and ResourcesIndex