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Category: assessment
How to Assess Students’ Digital Writing – Ideas from Troy Hicks’ New Book
In Assessing Students’ Digital Writing:Protocols For Looking Closely, Troy Hicks and a team of forward looking educators have given us lenses through which to appreciate and evaluate the type of digital creativity that students seem adept at...
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Where Do We Go Next? Use a Checklist!
Do your on-demand writing samples go into a folder or do they help you plan your next steps?
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What Do You See?
We see what we choose to see when we look at student writing.
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A Week of Oldies But Goodies: Throwback Week!
This week on Two Writing Teachers, we each chose another co-author’s previously published post to feature as part of our very own Throwback Week.
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Aim Higher: Some Tools For Mid Year Assessments
At the end of this week, the second marking period will officially come to an end for many of us, and so will the first half of our school year. This is the perfect time to pause, take a look back at the work that our students have accomplished from September to now, and look… Continue reading Aim Higher: Some Tools For Mid Year Assessments
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Using Assessment Tools to Teach Transference
Valuable lessons can be learned when an assessment tool designed for one genre is used to assess another.
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Conversations About Standards-Based Report Cards: Do Your Students Know How They’re Doing?
And with November, comes report cards.
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What’s An On-Demand?
On-demand assessments allow us to check and see, rather than speculate, on what kids already know and can do. Then we can make well-informed choices about what to teach.
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Ending a Year of Teaching Writing with a Group Reflection
One thing I love so much about being an educator is the cyclical nature of the school year. The beginning of the year brings promise, renewed energy, and a certain mania. The middle of the year brings familiarity, routine, and structure. The end of the year brings a slower pace, stepping back, reflection. There is… Continue reading Ending a Year of Teaching Writing with a Group Reflection
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An End of the Year Writing Check
At the end of the school year, we are often faced with pages and pages of student writing. Most of it may have gone home already, but now is a great time to study the work that remains as lovely, informal assessment of our teaching. Following are a few suggestions for lenses we can use to… Continue reading An End of the Year Writing Check
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Slice of Life in the classroom: How to rubric and grade our project
Launching our yearlong Slice of Life writing challenge is an exhilarating experience for my sixth graders. None of them have done any type of digital writing, and the very idea of posting a slice, seeing it “go public,” and then watching as classmates comment and compliment their writing is, as one of my kiddos put… Continue reading Slice of Life in the classroom: How to rubric and grade our project
