Analyzing Student Data

 

Watch this video on analyzing student data. 

Do you collect data in some of the same ways you this video shows and discusses? If so,please explain one of the ways you collect data as shown in this video.

If you have not collected data in some the ways illustrated in the video, do you think some of the ways the teachers in this video collected data is can be easily implemented? Explain.

 

Analyzing Student Work: Using Peer Feedback to Improve Instruction

This video is a great visual of how to use PLC to analyze student work and plan next steps with your colleagues. During their PLC of analyzing student work, the teachers have a Student Work Protocol. The Student Work Protocol entailed five steps. 

We have our own way of conducting PLCs, do you think that these steps are already implemented in our PLCs when analyzing student work? If so explain how you and your team have used the five steps in analyzing student work. Share some success and or failures. 

If your team is not fully using all steps explain what steps you are using in PLC and steps that you feel you should discuss more in PLCs.

Explanation of Five Steps

The above link will lead you to an article that explains the five steps to looking at student work.  

 

Analyzing Student Work

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Why do you look at student work or observe your student while they are working? Is your analysis and evaluation of student work for grading-(Student Centered) or for reflection on your own teaching and learning -(Teacher Centered)? 

 

Social Worker

 

How do you assess your students? What assessments do you use with the students and why? What do you analyze when it comes to students? Is it behavior or academic or is it both? Explain. What are some strategies that teachers can use in their classroom?

School Counselor

 How do you analyze data? What are some ways that you would improve analyzing data in schools? What do you think will promote higher test scores and higher achievement in students today? What are some strategies that you could share that could help teachers to boost morale of students?What are some of the limitations use have observed thus far with students today?

Music Teachers

Quick and Easy Assessments in Music

What are your thoughts on this article? Do you assess your students daily? If so how did you make changes to your plans for the week? Explain. Discuss a situation that happened this school year. Was your mentee helpful? If not what help do you think you would need to ensure that your students are learning your intended learning target for that day or week?

 

Building Reading and Writing in Music   

Music Teachers! Do you agree with incorporating reading and writing in the music class?Explain.

Have you considered projects for the students to do that will incorporate reading and writing? This article discusses the "Music Writing Project". What do you think about a project like this? How would change it to address all the cultures in your school building? How would make changes to the project? If you have incorporated writing in your music class, what are some creative ways you have incorporated writing in your class? What were the results? Discuss?

 

Common Formative Assessments

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What strategies do you use for common assessments? 

Are you familiar with common formative? 

How does your team use the data to measure student growth? Explain.  

Respond to the article and then respond to two comments. 

 

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Why assessments created by a team of teachers are superior to the formal assessments developed by a teacher working in isolation?

Share your thoughts on this blog. Do you believe that is best to have team created assessments or should teachers create assessments in isolation? 

 Your response to the blog must be at least 100 words. Respond to two comments. We want to read your thoughts!

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Question: This article lists 50 school counseling resources that an elementary school counselor from the Midwest says she can't live without. Take a look at the article. What two resources on the list do you use? Do you use them in a similar way as the author or differently? What are two resources that you have yet to use but would like to implement? Please explain why.