PDSA
Plus/delta
Reflection
WarmUp
Formative Assessment
Practice
Data
Summative assessment
Closer
In class, these are activities we use to build your skills and understanding. Often we use group work to do this in order to hear others’ understanding as well. Your job is to work, while Ms. Arnold facilitates – answers questions, guides when necessary, and the like. Between classes, you do this to continue to sharpen your skills.
This is information we use to determine if we have actually learned the intended target. Sometimes we consider this as a class; other times we consider it individually.
This is a way to gather information and aid in our reflection. One side of the conversation and/or thought process will be to find the methods we used that worked; the other side will be to find methods that could change in order to help us reach our goals even more.
This is a problem or question that is on the board (or in Google Classroom) every day when you enter the room. Ms. Arnold expects you to complete this in a timely manner while she takes care of housekeeping items like attendance. These often help us remember our target for the day and make connections to other targets we’ve learned.
This stands for the four steps Plan, Do, Study, Act. Plan tells us what we intend to learn; do tells us how we’ll learn it; study tells us if we learned it or not; act tells us how we’ll change our “do” step in the future to be even more successful.
These are questions – sometimes written and sometimes not – you’ll answer to help us determine the success of the day’s lesson and how we’ll proceed the next day.
Methods you and Ms. Arnold use to determine if we have mastering a target before moving on – this is the end of the unit test or project.
Methods you and Ms. Arnold use to determine if we are mastering a target – these methods form our plan of action to ensure we learn it. Some examples are out-of-class assignments, warm-ups, closers, and quizzes.
This process asks you to look back at what you and the class did while learning a certain target or group of targets – was the plan successful? Effective? Efficient?
