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FIVE DAY ONE STARTER QUESTIONS:

1. What are the Three Types of Assessment? 2. What does PERSIA stand for? 3. What protocol(s) can be used for increasing the depth of a discussion? 4. Name three Habits of the Mind. 5. Who is/are the audience(s) of a lesson plan (learning plan)?

Comments: Straight forward fact based questions.

Teacher's Notes: In class one, we reviewed in depth items 1,2, and 3 above, did not touch #4, and briefly defined #5 in the last minutes of class.

FIVE DAY TWO STARTER QUESTIONS 1. What are examples within the three categories of the 3 Types of Assessment? (one example each) 2. How would you use PERSIA to defuse a potentially offensive comment / line of logic from a student (intentional or not)? 3. Explain how a protocol for increasing depth of a discussion works (i.e. the step by step process of how to use it) 4. Name three Habits of Mind. 5. Who is/are the audience(s) of a lesson plan (learning plan)? How does this alter an author's approach to lesson planning?

Comments: Based on the prior knowledge, most of the second set of questions are either expansions and/or items needing the basic knowledge to proceed with the answer. They are APPLICATION questions. The exceptions are #4, which is a verbatim repetition of the first set, and #5, which includes an add on question which is SPECULATIVE in nature.

This question set can be considered a Mid-stream assessment (Mid-Term), as a diagnositic tool. Although one option is to simply copy and paste all the items from Day One, therefore rendering a Day Two set as an exact replica, this altered set does the following: a. still checks for basic understanding (as basic understanding is needed to answer the more indepth version of questions) b. allows for more varied answers from the students, therefore encouraging discussion points. c. Checks for students who read ahead or explored the unreviewed items beyond the confines of what was covered in class. (e.g. question #4 or #5)

Teacher's Note: by the end of class 2, all items were reviewed. What will the Post Assessment look like if it intends to be DIAGNOSTIC? What if the final questions were to be SUMMATIVE in nature?