Element II-A-1. Quality of Effort and Work
Organizes and analyzes results from a variety of assessments to determine progress toward intended outcomes and uses these findings to adjust practice and identify and/or implement appropriate differentiated interventions and enhancements for students.
What does this look like in practice? Our collective thoughts:
Memorial:
Miscoe:
Clough:
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Memorial:
- Proofreading (individually, 1 on 1, with partners)
- Rubrics and models
- Conferencing with students
- Oral assessments
- Checklists
- Sharing and showing expectations and work
- 3 Tiered Model
- Teacher led with models/exemplars
- Students with support
- Independent-students take ownership
- Interventions as needed to ensure quality effort and work
- Empowering students to acquire and attain personal goals
- Build stamina-push to go on
- Student portfolio-Assessments
Miscoe:
- Post relevant standard(s) and the day's agenda
- Show examples/model expectations (including excellent student examples from previous years)
- Well-designed rubric with discussion/have students re-explain expectations
- Guided practice
- Exit strategy that reinforces expectations
- Graphic organizers across all disciplines
- Walk-through examples of different achievement levels (give them an MCAS open response example an have the students rate it themselves)
- Play audio/video of performance,lab, etc., and ask for student feedback and apply it to themselves
- Clearly explaining assignments by using student or teacher examples
- Holding student conferences to help student growth
- Modeling effective processes - provide examples, rubrics, and modeling
- Evaluating all steps or drafts of an assignment, not just the final product
- Encouraging students to use their best effort
- Setting a tone of hard work and sending the message it's important
- Making accommodations to meet the needs of all students
- Clear expectations
- Students taught to self-evaluate using rubrics and portfolio process
- Clear (stated) objectives
- Reasonable pacing
- Peer teaching/critiquing
- Incorporate student errors into lesson
- Work until correct
- Quality vs. quantity
- Frequent check-ins to monitor progress and quality or work
- Variety of activities to meet diverse student needs
- Students are engaged and understand the purpose of the common core activity/lesson
- Share exemplary samples when appropriate
- Mutually respectful environment
Clough:
- Pre-requisite knowledge: need to know what benchmarks for particular standard look like; know content standards; know students' potential
- Questions: resources?; can district establish/purchase continuum for writing?; common rubrics, checklists and assessments
- What does it look like?; students are using rubrics, checklists, etc.; students need to revisit and retry work; will see peer and teacher conferring; portfolios are used to measure progress toward standards
- Peer modeling
- Teacher modeling
- Self-monitoring using rubrics, charts and checklists
- Goals: individual and classroom
- Clear expectations by defining objectives
- Monitor progress - portfolio
- Show work samples
- Think aloud; explain thought process
- State/post objective using visual/auditory expectations
- Student self-assessment
- Exit strategies
- Modeling with role playing
- Assessments with open response questions and student sharing
- Exemplars: top/modeled writing examples; sharing varied strategies across the curriculum
- Rubrics: clearly defined expectations; exposure and repeated practice; routines
- Guided practice: graphic organizers; step by step checklist; collaborative practice; conferencing
- Multi sensory instruction
- Connecting previously learned concepts
- Active student engagement via games and projects and written opportunities
- Providing visuals for new vocabulary such as semantic maps and videos
- Opportunities for field trips to provide real life experiences
- Making expectations clear to students
- Sample final product
- Discussions about what quality work looks like
- Communication expectations to parents
- Daily routines of practices that work
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