Come and Discuss Aligned Instruction and Assessment to Answer: Did I Teach? Did They Learn?
Location
Group One Sessions: Room 129
Start Date
23-2-2024 10:00 AM
End Date
23-2-2024 10:50 AM
First Presenter's Brief Biography
Regular and Special Education Full-Time Teaching 1968-1991 Armstrong State University/Georgia Southern University 1991-Present
Presentation Type
Concurrent Session
yes
Interactive Poster Session
Abstract
Come and discuss how these questions can be answered accurately. Did I teach? Did they learn? Aligning our instruction and assessment helps us to answer these questions correctly.. Participants will receive examples showing how instruction and assessments are aligned for all elementary school subjects.
Conference Strands
Effective Teaching Strategies for Students with Disabilities
Description
If we align the instruction and assessment critical features we can better answer
these questions accurately. Did I teach? Did they learn? Anderson, 2022; see
also Baez-Hernandez; 2019, Burroughs et al., 2019; MacPhail et al., 2021;
Scanton et al., 2022;Theobald et al., 2022).
Answering these questions accurately can help teachers self-assess their teaching
methods and make changes needed so the students can do what the teacher
wants them to do and how the teacher wants them to do it. If students fail an
assessment the teacher can analyze the instruction and assessment critical
features to see if they are aligned and if the students have the necessary lesson
pre-requisite skills.
Answering this question incorrectly can cause harm to the teacher and student.
Did I teach? If the answer is incorrect the teacher may abandon what the teacher
is doing. What the teacher is doing may be correct but because the assessment is
not aligned the teacher believes the teacher did not teach and changes what the
teacher is doing. The teaching may be correct but the assessment critical features
are not aligned with the teaching critical features causing the teacher to believe the
teaching was flawed.
Answering this question incorrectly can cause harm to the teacher and student.
Did they learn? If the answer is incorrect the teacher may provide time to reteach
the student or students. This time could have been used for teaching other
lessons. The students may be able to do the assessment if the instruction and
assessment critical features are aligned.
Participants will receive “I can statements” for teaching lessons to elementary
special and regular education students using aligned instruction and assessment.
Objectives for rote, skills application, and content application lessons will be
included.
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Come and Discuss Aligned Instruction and Assessment to Answer: Did I Teach? Did They Learn?
Group One Sessions: Room 129
Come and discuss how these questions can be answered accurately. Did I teach? Did they learn? Aligning our instruction and assessment helps us to answer these questions correctly.. Participants will receive examples showing how instruction and assessments are aligned for all elementary school subjects.
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