GAME progress

I have been making great progress on my GAME plan. I began to set up my turning points questions. I have created 5 questions that relate to the unit I am teaching. They are questions that will give me a great understanding of student understanding. I made sure to pick a few questions from each standard that I would like to assess. This will allow me to make sure that one correct answer will not mislead me to believe that the student understands when realistically they had a good guess. Students will have to get multiply questions correct for each standard to ensure they actually understand the concept.

GAME cont.

In order to carry out my GAME Plan. I decided to take a professional development class on the turning points program. This class taught me how to set up the format to create questions, how to locate the information of student results, and how to use the information once its collected. It was a great way to assess students understand quick and easy. Also, I can see the students loving using the program.

GAME

Standard 1: Provide students with multiple and varied formative and summative assessments aligned with content and technology standards and use resulting data to inform learning and teaching.
I would like to use more formative assessment to assess understanding. Formative assessment is a way to check understanding throughout the learning process and adjust teaching based on the results. I often use formative assessment, but then do not always stop to re-teach the material that the students do not understand. I am not utilizing the importance of formative assessment.
I would like to achieve this goal by using Turning Points, a clicking system, to assess students through formative assessment. Turning points is a way to check student understanding over certain content knowledge immediately. It will allow me to see who does not understand the material, those who do, and the topics that the students are most struggling with. Then, I can take this information and make centers. One center will cover the students that are lacking the basic understanding of the concept, another center will address the students that are just making minor common mistakes and the last center will be for the students that have mastered the material and need enrichment activities.
I will monitor my progress over my re-teaching by giving the formative assessment before and after to ensure the students have improved in their learning.
I will evaluate my learning by reflecting on the re-teaching skills that are most benefitting the students. Then, I plan to eliminate the teaching skills that are not working and improving on the ones that are.
Standard 2: Develop technology-enriched learning environments that enable all students to pursue their individual curiosities and become active participants in setting their own educational goals, managing their own learning, and assessing their own progress.
Change is hard for many people. My goal to get students to be more responsible for their learning is to take one step at a time. I will first teach students how to make goals in their educational career. Then, we will work on how to monitor progress over their learning goals, and then I will teach them how to assess their progress. Students rely on teachers to determine their success. It will be hard to change that, but I think showing the students is the best way.
I plan to get students to be more responsible for their learning by providing resources to get them started. For example; providing I Can statements and tracking charts. Also, I will model for them how the process works. This will give them an example of how to manage their own learning.
I will monitor progress by having individual meetings with each students to check in with them over their goals, progress, and how they are assessing their learning.
I will evaluate the process by asking the students and monitoring their success with their learning.