Friday, April 22, 2022
Data Driven Instruction
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Grace Munoz- 5th Grade, Trix Academy
ReplyDeleteTwo types of assessments are pre-assessments and formative assessments. Pre-assessments can be used before teaching a concept to see what scholars already know about that topic. This is especially helpful to know what things are being remembered or not from prior grades. Once the concepts have been taught, it is good to compare the data from pre-assessment with formative data to see where students are progressing. These formative assessments can take a lot of different forms. They are checks during the unit or module to see how students are progressing, and to use the data to reteach or pull small groups before moving on from the concepts entirely.
Edulastic is great to see which specific questions scholars got stuck on and need clarified or retaught. It is good to get both measures of individual student progress and the class as a whole. It is also very easy to retest scholars who may have not performed accurately to their abilities.
Implementing data driven instruction has been a weak point for me in my teaching so far. My school has made good accountability for collecting data on a weekly basis, and even for reflecting on that data. But where I struggle is with implementing the ideas for improvement that I decide on in those reflections. I would like to blame it on lack of time in the classroom to get this all done, but stopping to make sure scholars understand things before moving on is very helpful and should be a priority. Moving forward, I want to give these data talks and reteaching moments the priority they deserve for the best growth of my scholars.
Charlene Long
ReplyDeleteTrix Academy
What are two types of assessments and how could you use data from these assessments to drive instruction?
One type of assessment is a formative assessment. An exit ticket is a type of formative assessment. This could be used to reflect on the lesson taught that day. If a group of scholars don't understand the lesson for the day they could be pulled during small group instruction to do a reteach. Another type of assessment is a unit assessment or summative assessment. This would be done at the end of a unit. This data would be used to see what scholars learned through a whole unit. If a question was missed by multiple scholars, that topic may need to be retaught or the question may need to be worded differently.
How could you use an Edulastic report to determine next steps of instruction for scholars?
Looking at what questions scholars answered incorrectly will show areas that need more instruction or to be completely retaught in a different way. Maybe some questions need to be retaught whole class or some to a few students in a small group setting.
In your future lesson plans, how do you plan to implement the steps of data driven instruction?
I plan to reteach based on the needs of scholar through assessments such as exit tickets, edulastic and my classroom observations during independent work time. I plan to have my small groups more fluid than they have been in the past.
Deborah Godwin-Starks
ReplyDelete5th Grade Teacher
Timothy L Johnson Academies
Fort Wayne, Indiana
I have enjoyed all of Nikk's workshops this year. I particularly enjoyed the workshop on Data Driven Instructions.
It is important to understand data and how to use it to better instruct my scholars in my day-to-day teaching. As a result, I use both summative and formative assessments. For instance, I use Edulastic as a form of assessment in close reading, test prep, and as ways to get concrete data for analyzing where my students are and what they need in instructions. And of course, I use summative assessments for traditional testing.
I also use Quizzes for math as a formative assessment. I use it in whole group math activities and small group instructions when I either need to re-teach, or a way of breaking away from whole group teaching to assess prior knowledge and understanding words, definitions, and comprehension in English language arts, reading and writing.
Knowing what assessments to use and when it is most effective helps in over-all instructions. And as a teacher, it is really important.