Instructional Minute

Formative Assessment Defined:

Frequent, interactive assessments of students' progress and understanding of the learning target. Used to identify learning needs and adjust instruction appropriately.

Formative Assessment increases student engagement and provides a starting point for meaningful learning adjustments. Formative Assessment also provides feedback to students regarding where they are in their learning of the content.

Progress is encouraging. When students receive daily feedback on their progress, they see clear evidence that they are progressing, and they are more confident that they can tackle the tasks they experience in school as well as be willing to tackle upcoming tasks.

The goal of formative assessment is to gather information that can be used to improve instruction and student learning. Formative assessments are generally low stakes, which means that they have low or no point value

Formative Assessment can look like:

• Response Cards
• Clickers
• Paraphrasing
• Written Response

Both formative assessment and formative feedback provide students with information regarding progress on their learning. Formative feedback uses teacher questioning practices and dialogue to serve as informal assessments. The creation of questions to assess student progress toward identified learning goals is an important component of formative assessment. Questioning, dialogue, and feedback can be executed both verbally and written responses.

When effectively implemented formative assessment should prove to be beneficial for both the students and the teacher.

Below you can find the new, updated required instructional minutes by grade level and content area. Each grade level also includes a sample schedule.

May Meetings:

K-8 ELA:

• May 23rd at 4:15 pm

9-12 ELA:

• May 21st at 3:00 pm

The documents attached outline K-8 curricular resources, standards and pacing. This can also be found by clicking here on the LSD website.

The document attached outlines 9-12 curricular resources, standards and pacing. This can also be found by clicking here on the LSD website.

This on-demand professional learning resource provides micro-learning videos about every IXL feature and best practices for implementing IXL. Teachers must be signed into their IXL accounts to access these videos. https://www.ixl.com/resources/elearning-library

A resource to use as you see fit.