William Paterson Practicum Orientation on 9/18/2009 by Kelly McNeal, PhD

1. Assessment Kelly McNeal, PhD Department of Secondary and Middle School Education William Paterson University

2. Pretest Please Complete the Pretest

3. Please feel free to update your answers on the pretest / take notes on that sheet throughout this presentation.

8. Now Let’s Test Your Knowledge Go to the bottom of your pretest page and get ready for another test!!!!!! Write down the problem I say and figure out the answer

9. How Many People Wrote this Down 1 + 1 = 2

10. WOW!!!!!!!! What wonderful test results!!!!!!

11. Am I an incredible teacher???? Did I “teach” anyone anything? Let’s discuss the point….

13. How can we demonstrate that we are positively impacting students’ learning? We must constantly ASSESS students! But what does this mean?

15. Instructional Cycle

22. Let’s do a formative assessment. Stand if you could answer #6 on the pretest. Stay seated if you could not. This is a “survey.”

23. Post Assessment Remember the math test I gave? That was a post assessment. I had an objective and then I assessed it with a post-assessment.

25. Continuous Reflection You should always be asking yourself “are the students learning what I am teaching?” AND “HOW DO I KNOW THIS?” The answer is…..

26. ASSESSMENT

27. Our Post-Assessment Review your pre-test and please work with your colleagues seated nearby to update your answers. Please feel free to ask me questions as you do this.