Quick and easy ideas to bring formative assessment into your classroom. Knowing what a student knows now is crucial to your lessons and planning.

1. Easy, Fun Formative
Assessment Ideas
ForGrade 1-4
Teachers
Lorraine Booth
Resource,TL
@ Emily Carr
Laura McClenahan
Curriculum&Assessment
District ResourceTeacher
TL – Emily Carr
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2. AGENDA
Icebreaker and Introductions
Why you are here (Learning Intentions)
Principles of Assessment
Goals of Assessment
Group/Individual and Digital AssessmentTools
WorkTime and BreakTime
Group SharingTime
Questions/Follow Up
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3. Introductions/Experiences
We are better together!
Please share your ideas and
questions!
Lorraine Booth
Laura McClenahan
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4. Ice Breaker
Pick the image that
appeals to you the
most right now.
BEACH
SCENE
COFFEE
SCENE
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5. Pick a picture
and find it’s
match
Beach Scene group
Once you’ve found your picture
match then introduce yourself
and find a seat together.You
are now partners!
 You have one minute to find
out one or two interesting
things about your partner
 GO!
Coffee scene group
 Once you’ve found your picture
match then introduce yourself
and find a seat together. You
are now partners!
 You have one minute to find out
one or two interesting things
about your partner
 GO!
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6. How would you
rate your
knowledge
about your new
partner?
Show 1,2,3, or 4 fingers depending upon how you
self-assess your knowledge.
4 fingers – I know a lot
about them.
3 fingers – I know some
things about them.
2 fingers- I know a little bit
about them.
1 finger – I am just
beginning to know things
about them.
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7. 4 Finger Self-
Assessment
Chart
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Please write on your sheet
1. Four finger chart

8. Howcouldyou
usethistoolin
yourclassroom
andwhencould
youuseit?
Talk with your partner about
how and when you could use
this tool.
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9. What is
Assessment?
assessment is defined as the
process of gathering, recording
and using information about a
learner's response
(performance/achievement) to a
task (Webster’s Dictionary)
So our job as a teacher involves
finding out about…
• the strengths of our students
• what areas they are working on
• and ways to improve or help them with
their learning goals
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10. Types of
Assessment
Formal or Informal
 Informal assessments are not
data driven but rather content
and performance driven. ...
 Formal or standardized
measures should be used
to assess overall achievement,
to compare a student's
performance with others at
their age or grade, or to identify
comparable strengths and
weaknesses with peers.
Formative or Summative
 Formative: Given throughout
the learning process, formative
assessments seek to determine
how students are progressing
through a certain learning goal.
 Summative:Given at the end of
the year or unit, summative
assessments assess a student's
mastery of a topic after
instruction.
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11. Where
am I?
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12. StudentCompetencyScales
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Please write
2. Competency Scales

13. Example of
Student
Work
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14. Goals of
Assessments
To find out what a
student knows, is able to
do, and/or understands.
This is not the ending,
but rather the beginning
of the learning, teaching
and planning.
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15. DylanWilam
Quote
Research
"We need to be activating
students as owners of their own
learning."
In classrooms where medium- and short-
cycle formative assessment was used,
teachers reported greater professional
satisfaction and increased student
engagement in learning. (NCTM 2017)
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16. Tips forAny
Assessment
Develop Learning Goals
and Share/DevelopWork
time Expectations and
Choices
Establish what Mastery
(looks like, sounds like)
Give Regular Feedback
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17. Things to
consider when
choosing an
assessment
Criteria for Choosing
Assessments
If it's not
informing your
practice why are
you using it?
Infographic
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18. Two toTry
3.Appreciation,
Apology, Aha
4.Padlet example
Password is Hello
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Password is hello
https://padlet.com/lmcclenaha/4a0hba4zb5io
Click to add text

19. Howcouldyou
usethesetoolsin
yourclassroom
andwhencould
youuseit?
Switch partners.Talk with your
new partner about how and when
you could use this tool.
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20. 5.PopeyTools
Reading Interest
Survey
Popey.ca
https://popey.ca/assessment
GOT IT! (Growth OverTime)
Self-Monitoring tool
All tools have an
editable version
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21. 6.ShapeSelf-
Assessment
and
MirrorChat
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22. GroupSharing
Time
AndQuestions
7.Your Ideas Your Questions
https://padlet.com/lmcclen
aha/kjamwi3hdm1n
Password is hello
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23. OtherWays
ToAssess
And "Show
WhatYou
Know"
8.Create a Poem or Illustration
9.Make a Collage/Video/Word Cloud
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24. OtherWays
toShowWhat
You Know
10.Physical or Kinesthetic
Assessment Ideas
 Jump if you...
 Pick this corner if you...
11.Make a
commercial
Tell a story
write a play
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25. MagnificentThing Project 2019
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26. Howcouldyou
usethesetoolsin
yourclassroom
andwhencould
youuseit?
Talk with your new partner
about how and when you
could use this tool.
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27. Individual
Assessment
Ideas
12.SET-BC Ideas 13.Mini Whiteboards –
Red Dot Green Dot
whiteboard with answer
and has a green dot if sure
of the answer and red dot
if unsure
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28. 14.
Graffiti Party
(end of unit)
Line your walls or
the floor with blank
white paper.
All students draw, write
and show what they
know/learned
(Math, SS, Sc)
Students can
photograph their
ideas and share
with parents.
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29. FlipGrid
https://flipgrid.com/
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Formative AssessmentTool
Fun, Easy Feedback-
students make videos
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30. Digital
Assessment
Tools have
been
imbedded but
here's one last
one...
15.Kahoot – to play it you go to kahoot.it
To make a Kahoot you go to Create.kahoot.it
 We are now going to play an
example of Kahoot.
https://play.kahoot.it/#/k/b90f7a
41-59ad-4085-9d2e-
a5b4bf499b2c
Instructions
https://files.getkahoot.com/acad
emy/Kahoot_Academy_Getting_
Started_Guide_2nd_Ed_-
_June_2016.pdf
1. Go to kahoot.it
2. Enter the Pin Provided
3. Look at the screen
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31. Howcouldyou
usethesetoolsin
yourclassroom
andwhencould
youuseit?
Talk with your new partner
about how and when you
could use this tool.
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32. WorkTime!
YOURTURN!
 You have many new
formative assessment
tools to try.
 Plan a lesson or lessons for
your class that you can use
on Monday.
 We are around to help.
List ofTools to Discover
 1. Fingers
 2. Competency Scales
 3. Appreciation, Apology, Aha
 4. Padlet
 5. PopeyTools
 6. Shape Self-Assessment & Mirror Chat
 7. Colleague Ideas
 8. Poem/Illustration
 9. Collage/Videos/Word Cloud
 10. Physical Kinesthetic
 11. Commercial/Story/Play
 12. SET-BC
 13. MiniWhiteboards
 14. Graffiti Party
 15. Flip Grid and Kahoot
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33. GreatWebsites
AssessmentWebsites
 https://popey.ca
 https://blogsomemoore
 https://www.setbc.org/2017/06/as
sessment-bc-
classrooms/#1496343832736-
f415de00-4a5e
 http://go.vsb.bc.ca/schools/ltm/cs
l_resources/Pages/Student-
Competency-Scale.aspx
 https://www.edutopia.org/video/
high-expectations-students-
learn-rise-occasion
 https://www.commonsense.org/e
ducation/top-picks/top-tech-
tools-for-formative-assessment
Self-Assessment Examples
 http://www.ssgt.nsw.edu.au/
 https://portal.sd71.bc.ca/group
/ssg2i21/Pages/Core-
Competency-Self-Assessment-
Templates.aspx
 https://www.oregon.gov/ode/e
ducator-
resources/assessment/Docume
nts/teaching_students_self-
assessment.pdf
 https://blogsomemoore.com/s
hout-outs/templates/
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34. Awesome
People to
Follow or
LookUp
Twitter/Authors/Educators
 Vicki Davis
 Shelley Moore
 Janice Novakowski
 Tom Schimmer
 Sharon Jeroski
 Trevor Mackenzie
 Brene Brown (speaker)
 DylanWiliam
 Dr. MarciaTate
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35. Our
Contact
Info
Lorraine Booth
lbooth@vsb.bc.ca
Follow me @
TennisLorraine
Laura McClenahan
lmcclenaha@vsb.bc.ca
Follow Me @
16laura16laura
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36. Our Feedback
(And two moreways to
assess)
THANK YOUFOR
BEING HERE!!!
3-2-1
3 things I learned
2 things that I'll try right away
1 thing I still wonder about
ExitTickets
 Please add any feedback you
have about this workshop.
 ThankYou for being here
and we hope you are
leaving with ideas you can
use right away!
 Please feel free to leave
ideas on the PADLET and
FlipGrid too.
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