8th Annual Rowan Literacy Consoritum

2013-2014Dr. Midge Madden and Dr. Valarie Lee

OCTOBER 4th Session

Meet Midge Madden

Guatemala

Family

Midge Madden

• Coalition for Essential Schools• Qualitative Practitioner Research

o Seminar in Reading• Writing Interests

o Writing Instructiono Critical Literacieso 21st Century literacies

+ Getting to Know Valarie Lee

• A serious researcher who laughs … and likes ice cream!

• Published author – JAAL and Information Age Press

• High School English Teacher from Colorado

• Rowan’s Content Literacy guru

+Expert on Boys: Author, Researcher, and Family Peacemaker

My Three Sons

Team nameMembers...Four traits that describe the team...Relative of..Lovers of...Who feel...Who need...Who give...Who would like to see...Resident of...Team name

Get to know each other:

Bio Poems

● constructivist in nature● inquiry community● sustained, ongoing intensive

work● participant-driven● collaborative● teacher network

What RLC is…..

Ted Talk- Angela Lee Duckworth

Effective Writing Instruction

and Formative Assessment

in the Common Core

Our Theme for the Year

Classroom Vignettes

● Each team member read a vignette

● Share vignettes as a team

● Discuss details in the vignettes you consider elements of effective

elements of formative assessment

What are elements of effective formative

assessments?

All too often, the term “formative assessment” conjures images of quizzes and tests, while in reality, formative assessment is a process used by teachers and students during instruction that provides feedback to adjust ongoing teaching and learning.

● Clarifying, sharing, and understanding learning intentions and criteria for success

● Engineering effective classroom discussions, activities, and learning tasks that elicit evidence of learning

● Providing feedback that moves learning forward

● Activating learners as instructional resources for one another

● Activating learners as owners of their own learning-(Dylan Wiliam)

Successful Implementation of Formative Assessments

Shawn: “I used to do a lot of explaining, but now I do a lot of questioning.

I used to do a lot of talking, but now I do a lot of listening.

I use to think about teaching the curriculum, but now I think about teaching the student.”

-(Heritage, 2010, p. 4).

Implementing formative assessment as a process

Quickwrite: What do you think?

Globe and Mail Article

● Identify the author’s claim. ● Using your T-chart, record your beliefs● Make only statements that support the

author’s claim. Find and speak from places in yourselves that honestly connect with him.

● After everyone’s finished, discuss. Work hard at believing as much of the argument as you can.

● Record these for the group on chart paper.

Believing Game

What is interesting or helpful about this view?

What would you notice if you believed this view?

In what sense or under what conditions might these ideas be true?

How can this view possibly be right?Avoid disagreeing or making negative

or challenging statements.

Guiding Questions for Believing

21st Century Writing

Believing Doubting

Ted Talk: Power of Writing

21st Century Writing

Believing Doubting

What did you notice about the statements and questions?

Did the experience affect your point of view, even if only slightly? How? or Why not?

“Certainty is rarely if ever possible and we increase the likelihood of getting things wrong if we succumb to the hunger for it.” -Peter Elbow

Debrief

Team Focus Area

Midpoint Sharing: Team focus/work on Wordpress in November and December.

Consultancy Protocol to get feedback from other teams

End: Team Digital product you can amplify

Looking ahead….

• Select presenter who will take notes and not participate in discussion

• Presenter: Scribe the focus as it is now

• Layer One: Listening and Peeling• Layer Two: Peeling and Probing• Getting to the Core• Presenter responds using question

prompts• Chart the question or dilemma for

team focus

Peeling the Onion Protocol

● District Team Names including grade levels

● Picture of team with caption of names

● Team Dilemma and/or focus

● Send to willi9db@students.rowan.edu

RLC Word Presshttp://rowanliteracyconsortiu

m.org

Team Time for Planning

Steven Zemelman

Sarah Brown Wessling

Our Speakers for 2013-2014

Send Tweet to @RowanLitC

What did you get from today? What do you need from us to help you understand these dilemmas surrounding writing and assessment?

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