This document discusses assessment strategies for improving student learning. It distinguishes between formative and summative assessment. Formative assessment involves collecting information during learning to inform instruction and provide feedback to students. Summative assessment evaluates student learning at the end to communicate performance. The document emphasizes the importance of formative assessment for improving learning outcomes and cites research showing it can double student learning speeds when implemented well. It provides examples of formative assessment activities and stresses using assessment data to guide instructional decisions and shift the focus to more formative practices.
The document discusses strategies for teaching reading comprehension. It begins by stating the learning targets, which are for teachers to be able to identify and implement instructional strategies to help students comprehend text and increase learning outcomes. It emphasizes using formative assessment to monitor student progress. The document then describes various reading comprehension strategies like predicting, making inferences, connecting to prior knowledge, summarizing, and note-taking. It provides details on how to teach each strategy and explains their importance for developing strong comprehension skills.
Understanding by design board retreat 2013 finalAndrea Hnatiuk
This document provides an overview of Understanding by Design (UbD). It explains that UbD is a multifaceted and complex process for designing curriculum and instruction. Key aspects of UbD include establishing learning targets, essential questions, outcomes, assessments, and differentiated learning plans. Deeper understanding is developed through big ideas, essential questions, knowing what students will know and be able to do, and gathering evidence of understanding through observations, conversations and products. The document emphasizes establishing learning targets and involving students in the learning process.
Lets talk about talking!(1) 1 communicationAndrea Hnatiuk
The document discusses social constructivism and collaborative learning. It emphasizes that students construct meaning through communication, organizing ideas, and applying their learning in new contexts. Effective instructional strategies promote collaboration, clarify student understanding, and allow students to reflect on and assess their own learning. Creating a safe classroom environment where students participate and communicate is important for social constructivism.
Teachers enactment of content area literacy in strategies in secondary scienc...Andrea Hnatiuk
This study examined how 26 secondary science and mathematics teachers implemented literacy strategies in their classrooms after participating in professional development on integrating literacy practices into their content instruction. The researchers found that although all teachers were using specific literacy strategies introduced in the workshops, the ways they enacted the strategies varied and influenced student learning outcomes. The researchers developed a framework to characterize these differences and discuss implications of enacting strategies in various ways. The study aims to provide a deeper understanding of how teachers implement literacy strategies beyond just whether or not they use them.
This document provides an overview of content area literacy strategies for teachers. It discusses the importance of literacy in various content areas and defines basic, intermediate, and discipline-specific literacy. Several instructional strategies are presented, such as teaching word origins and using multiple representations in math. The document emphasizes that students need support to develop advanced literacy skills in high school. It also lists learning targets for a professional development session, which are to identify and implement effective cross-curricular literacy strategies.
This document discusses formative and summative assessment strategies. It begins with an introduction to assessment for, as, and of learning. It then explores the distinctions between formative and summative assessment. Formative assessment involves collecting information about student learning to inform instruction, while summative assessment evaluates student learning at the end of a period of instruction. The document emphasizes that formative assessment, when implemented well, can significantly improve student learning outcomes. It provides examples of formative assessment activities and discusses using assessment data to guide instructional decisions. The goal is to shift the balance more towards formative assessment practices.
This document discusses assessment strategies for improving student learning. It distinguishes between formative and summative assessment. Formative assessment involves collecting information during learning to inform instruction and provide feedback to students. Summative assessment evaluates student learning at the end to communicate performance. The document emphasizes the importance of formative assessment for improving learning outcomes and cites research showing it can double student learning speeds when implemented well. It provides examples of formative assessment activities and stresses using assessment data to guide instructional decisions and shift the focus to more formative practices.
The document discusses strategies for teaching reading comprehension. It begins by stating the learning targets, which are for teachers to be able to identify and implement instructional strategies to help students comprehend text and increase learning outcomes. It emphasizes using formative assessment to monitor student progress. The document then describes various reading comprehension strategies like predicting, making inferences, connecting to prior knowledge, summarizing, and note-taking. It provides details on how to teach each strategy and explains their importance for developing strong comprehension skills.
Understanding by design board retreat 2013 finalAndrea Hnatiuk
This document provides an overview of Understanding by Design (UbD). It explains that UbD is a multifaceted and complex process for designing curriculum and instruction. Key aspects of UbD include establishing learning targets, essential questions, outcomes, assessments, and differentiated learning plans. Deeper understanding is developed through big ideas, essential questions, knowing what students will know and be able to do, and gathering evidence of understanding through observations, conversations and products. The document emphasizes establishing learning targets and involving students in the learning process.
Lets talk about talking!(1) 1 communicationAndrea Hnatiuk
The document discusses social constructivism and collaborative learning. It emphasizes that students construct meaning through communication, organizing ideas, and applying their learning in new contexts. Effective instructional strategies promote collaboration, clarify student understanding, and allow students to reflect on and assess their own learning. Creating a safe classroom environment where students participate and communicate is important for social constructivism.
Teachers enactment of content area literacy in strategies in secondary scienc...Andrea Hnatiuk
This study examined how 26 secondary science and mathematics teachers implemented literacy strategies in their classrooms after participating in professional development on integrating literacy practices into their content instruction. The researchers found that although all teachers were using specific literacy strategies introduced in the workshops, the ways they enacted the strategies varied and influenced student learning outcomes. The researchers developed a framework to characterize these differences and discuss implications of enacting strategies in various ways. The study aims to provide a deeper understanding of how teachers implement literacy strategies beyond just whether or not they use them.
This document provides an overview of content area literacy strategies for teachers. It discusses the importance of literacy in various content areas and defines basic, intermediate, and discipline-specific literacy. Several instructional strategies are presented, such as teaching word origins and using multiple representations in math. The document emphasizes that students need support to develop advanced literacy skills in high school. It also lists learning targets for a professional development session, which are to identify and implement effective cross-curricular literacy strategies.
This document discusses formative and summative assessment strategies. It begins with an introduction to assessment for, as, and of learning. It then explores the distinctions between formative and summative assessment. Formative assessment involves collecting information about student learning to inform instruction, while summative assessment evaluates student learning at the end of a period of instruction. The document emphasizes that formative assessment, when implemented well, can significantly improve student learning outcomes. It provides examples of formative assessment activities and discusses using assessment data to guide instructional decisions. The goal is to shift the balance more towards formative assessment practices.
Guided reading the romance and the reality (2012)Andrea Hnatiuk
1. Guided reading has become an essential element of literacy education in many classrooms around the world. It focuses on observing individual student strengths and providing instruction to help students meet the challenges of increasingly difficult texts over time.
2. Key aspects of guided reading that have been embraced include differentiating instruction through small groups, using leveled books to ensure students are reading at an appropriate level, conducting benchmark assessments to determine reading levels, and using running records to assess reading progress.
3. Implementing guided reading well requires continuous professional development to refine teaching practice and ensure this approach remains powerful in helping all students become proficient readers.
This document discusses assessment in education. It defines assessment as being systematically conducted to contribute to an overall picture of each student's achievement. There are three types of assessment discussed: formative assessment which informs practice and provides feedback for improvement, summative assessment which evaluates student mastery of outcomes, and assessment as/for learning which involves student self-assessment. The document provides examples of formative assessment activities and notes assessment evidence can come from observations, conversations, and student products. The purpose of assessment is to understand what students have learned and still need to learn in order to improve instruction.
Educational Leadership November 2011 GradingAndrea Hnatiuk
The passage discusses the importance of summarization in an age of information overload. It notes that with the massive amounts of data available online, being able to quickly understand the key points of lengthy documents, articles, or reports is crucial. The ability to produce clear, concise summaries helps people save time by getting the gist of new information without having to read entire lengthy sources.
The document outlines the key areas of learning and cross-curricular competencies in the curriculum, including developing thinking, identity, literacies, and social responsibility. It also describes an outcome-based curriculum focused on what students need to know and do in each subject. Finally, it provides the contexts and goals for English Language Arts, which are comprehending and responding to material, composing and creating works, and assessing and reflecting on the learning process.
Gssd fountas and pinnell targets recalibrated 2012Andrea Hnatiuk
This document outlines target instructional reading levels for students in different grades according to the Fountas and Pinnell reading assessment system. It provides levels from A to Z that students should meet in the fall and spring for pre-reading through 8th grade to determine if they are not yet meeting expectations, approaching expectations, meeting expectations, or exceeding expectations based on grade level.
The Good Spirit School Division employs three full-time Literacy Coaches - Andrea Hnatiuk, Janine Neufeld-Ruetz, and Nicole Piercey. The Coaches provide a variety of support roles to teachers including assisting with curriculum implementation, improving classroom instruction, aligning instruction with student data, and expanding teachers' resource knowledge. They work collaboratively with teachers at designated schools to help achieve the division's literacy goals and ensure student growth in reading comprehension.
Students engage in writing as a process that involves pre-writing, drafting, revising, and finalizing. During pre-writing, students generate ideas and develop initial plans by considering purpose, audience, point of view, and format. In drafting, students focus on content over mechanics as they compose rough versions. Through revising, students refine their writing by reorganizing ideas, adding or removing content, and providing feedback to peers. Finally, students produce polished drafts and decide whether to share or publish their work. The writing process is recursive, and teachers support students by modeling strategies, creating a collaborative environment, and maintaining resources to facilitate writing development.
The document discusses the 6+1 Traits model for writing assessment and instruction. The 6+1 Traits include ideas, organization, word choice, sentence fluency, conventions, presentation, and voice. Using this common language and framework, teachers can provide specific feedback to help students improve their writing. The traits are divided into revision traits like ideas and organization, and editing/publishing traits like conventions. Teachers should embed the traits into teaching the full writing process from the beginning stages of developing content to the final stages of editing.
The 6 + 1 Writing Traits model outlines six traits of effective writing: Ideas, Organization, Voice, Word Choice, Sentence Fluency, and Conventions. The additional "+1" trait is Presentation, which refers to how a piece of writing looks on the page. This model provides a framework for teaching, learning, and assessing writing by focusing on these key elements.
The document outlines the English Language Arts curriculum outcomes for writing from Grades 1-9 in Saskatchewan schools. It provides learning outcomes for writing stories, poems, letters, reports and other texts. The outcomes progress from writing short sentences in Grade 1 to experimenting with different writing styles and genres, and producing multi-paragraph compositions in Grades 5-9. The document emphasizes developing writing skills in narrative, expository, descriptive and persuasive writing.
This document provides summaries of the Word Work and Saskatchewan curriculum correlations for grades 6, 7, and 8. For each grade, it outlines the key language arts indicators under categories like pragmatic, textual, syntactic, semantic/lexical/morphological, and graphophonic cues. It describes the language skills students are expected to demonstrate in comprehending and constructing meaning in reading, writing, listening and speaking. The document emphasizes language skills like determining word meanings, recognizing figurative language, spelling strategies, and clear pronunciation.
This document provides an overview of the Word Work and Saskatchewan curriculum correlations for grades 6, 7, and 8. For each grade, it outlines the semantic/lexical/morphological and graphophonic learning indicators. At grade 6, students are expected to recognize common prefixes, suffixes, root words, and figurative language. They also recognize word families and sound patterns. At grade 7, students avoid overused words and use correct homonyms and spelling strategies. They enunciate clearly and recognize literary devices. For grade 8, students determine word meaning using context clues and reference tools, and recognize figurative language and word patterns involving stress and pitch.
Guided reading the romance and the reality (2012)Andrea Hnatiuk
1. Guided reading has become an essential element of literacy education in many classrooms around the world. It focuses on observing individual student strengths and providing instruction to help students meet the challenges of increasingly difficult texts over time.
2. Key aspects of guided reading that have been embraced include differentiating instruction through small groups, using leveled books to ensure students are reading at an appropriate level, conducting benchmark assessments to determine reading levels, and using running records to assess reading progress.
3. Implementing guided reading well requires continuous professional development to refine teaching practice and ensure this approach remains powerful in helping all students become proficient readers.
This document discusses assessment in education. It defines assessment as being systematically conducted to contribute to an overall picture of each student's achievement. There are three types of assessment discussed: formative assessment which informs practice and provides feedback for improvement, summative assessment which evaluates student mastery of outcomes, and assessment as/for learning which involves student self-assessment. The document provides examples of formative assessment activities and notes assessment evidence can come from observations, conversations, and student products. The purpose of assessment is to understand what students have learned and still need to learn in order to improve instruction.
Educational Leadership November 2011 GradingAndrea Hnatiuk
The passage discusses the importance of summarization in an age of information overload. It notes that with the massive amounts of data available online, being able to quickly understand the key points of lengthy documents, articles, or reports is crucial. The ability to produce clear, concise summaries helps people save time by getting the gist of new information without having to read entire lengthy sources.
The document outlines the key areas of learning and cross-curricular competencies in the curriculum, including developing thinking, identity, literacies, and social responsibility. It also describes an outcome-based curriculum focused on what students need to know and do in each subject. Finally, it provides the contexts and goals for English Language Arts, which are comprehending and responding to material, composing and creating works, and assessing and reflecting on the learning process.
Gssd fountas and pinnell targets recalibrated 2012Andrea Hnatiuk
This document outlines target instructional reading levels for students in different grades according to the Fountas and Pinnell reading assessment system. It provides levels from A to Z that students should meet in the fall and spring for pre-reading through 8th grade to determine if they are not yet meeting expectations, approaching expectations, meeting expectations, or exceeding expectations based on grade level.
The Good Spirit School Division employs three full-time Literacy Coaches - Andrea Hnatiuk, Janine Neufeld-Ruetz, and Nicole Piercey. The Coaches provide a variety of support roles to teachers including assisting with curriculum implementation, improving classroom instruction, aligning instruction with student data, and expanding teachers' resource knowledge. They work collaboratively with teachers at designated schools to help achieve the division's literacy goals and ensure student growth in reading comprehension.
Students engage in writing as a process that involves pre-writing, drafting, revising, and finalizing. During pre-writing, students generate ideas and develop initial plans by considering purpose, audience, point of view, and format. In drafting, students focus on content over mechanics as they compose rough versions. Through revising, students refine their writing by reorganizing ideas, adding or removing content, and providing feedback to peers. Finally, students produce polished drafts and decide whether to share or publish their work. The writing process is recursive, and teachers support students by modeling strategies, creating a collaborative environment, and maintaining resources to facilitate writing development.
The document discusses the 6+1 Traits model for writing assessment and instruction. The 6+1 Traits include ideas, organization, word choice, sentence fluency, conventions, presentation, and voice. Using this common language and framework, teachers can provide specific feedback to help students improve their writing. The traits are divided into revision traits like ideas and organization, and editing/publishing traits like conventions. Teachers should embed the traits into teaching the full writing process from the beginning stages of developing content to the final stages of editing.
The 6 + 1 Writing Traits model outlines six traits of effective writing: Ideas, Organization, Voice, Word Choice, Sentence Fluency, and Conventions. The additional "+1" trait is Presentation, which refers to how a piece of writing looks on the page. This model provides a framework for teaching, learning, and assessing writing by focusing on these key elements.
The document outlines the English Language Arts curriculum outcomes for writing from Grades 1-9 in Saskatchewan schools. It provides learning outcomes for writing stories, poems, letters, reports and other texts. The outcomes progress from writing short sentences in Grade 1 to experimenting with different writing styles and genres, and producing multi-paragraph compositions in Grades 5-9. The document emphasizes developing writing skills in narrative, expository, descriptive and persuasive writing.
This document provides summaries of the Word Work and Saskatchewan curriculum correlations for grades 6, 7, and 8. For each grade, it outlines the key language arts indicators under categories like pragmatic, textual, syntactic, semantic/lexical/morphological, and graphophonic cues. It describes the language skills students are expected to demonstrate in comprehending and constructing meaning in reading, writing, listening and speaking. The document emphasizes language skills like determining word meanings, recognizing figurative language, spelling strategies, and clear pronunciation.
This document provides an overview of the Word Work and Saskatchewan curriculum correlations for grades 6, 7, and 8. For each grade, it outlines the semantic/lexical/morphological and graphophonic learning indicators. At grade 6, students are expected to recognize common prefixes, suffixes, root words, and figurative language. They also recognize word families and sound patterns. At grade 7, students avoid overused words and use correct homonyms and spelling strategies. They enunciate clearly and recognize literary devices. For grade 8, students determine word meaning using context clues and reference tools, and recognize figurative language and word patterns involving stress and pitch.