4/14/07

• Discussion/review about essential questions
• How are we going to use assessment to guide instruction and how to we use assessment to make instruction effective?
• Helps to prioritize content
• Won’t necessarily be addressed continually (i.e. throughout all units) nor will every essential question have only one unit question
• Tools for adapting/Modifying Instruction - brief coverage and materials available in the pink photocopy packet
• Accomodations (changing delivery) Modifications (changing expectations) and Adaptations (changing content)
• Co-teaching
• On-going assessment - a diagnostic continuum
• pre-assessment –> formative assessment –> summative assessment
• Project note: Want to include a pre-assessment, differentiated instrucion, formative and summative assessment through maybe a single unit
• I think I’ll develop some strategies for motivation and assessment of adult learners that could be incorporated within a professional development setting.
• Perhaps a reflection writing within a blog or as comments to a blog post.
• Perhaps an incentive to apply a certain aspect of training within class.
• Perhaps an online preassessment and then the utilization of electronic response system for formative assessment
• Currisulum Compacting
• instructional technique designed make curriculum modifications that allow for both advancement and enrichment
• analyze –> mastery –> needs to master –> how will they learn?
• Examples of differentiated instruction techniques:
• Learning Centers
• Tiered Instruction (Blooms)
• Assignment - take two test questions and determine which Blooms level the question if. Then create additional questions tiered across each of the other levels
• Response to Intervention
• Process for determining if a student has a specific learning disability - discrepancy model v. response to intervention

Hey check out this cool feature of the Windows Live Writer program…it incorporates built-in mapping functionality.  I was able to quickly get this ariel view of my house (the one in the middle toward the top - the structures across the road and to the left are my barns).  Pretty nifty.  I posted this also to www.brewmonkies.com to see how easy it was to post to multiple sites.  Awesome. 

Holly Jobe scheduled a web conference with the vendors for today.  Here are some notes…

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Had our annual group management training day today with Ray Santarini from National Seminars Group.  I’ll post my notes up here.

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Well I decided to move all naked pictures to the members-only section of my little corner of cyberville.  That, of course, doesn’t exist.  But perhaps my crappy little website will one day warrant an online store where you can buy t-shirts with quirky, off-color messages on them for $26.99….or, again, perhaps not.