In Tech Class I had the students report out by sending me an email listing anything they did not understand and what they found interesting. The approach made me realize that some students who typically do not like to talk in class were willing to share via an email.

Learning Target and Success Criteria - 8th Grade Math

8^th Grade Math

Strand – Algebra

Standard:

ü  PFA1.  Relate the various representations of a relationship; i.e., relate a table to graph, description and symbolic form.

Learning Target:

I can…relate tables, graphs, pictures and equations

Success Criteria (in order of teaching):

I can…

Ø  Make a table from a function.  Students will be given a function (for example: y  = 2x + 4).  They must be able to make an x and y table from this function

Ø  Identify a function from a table.  Students will be given different tables and must be able to find the relationship between x and y (the opposite of the first success criteria)

Ø  Graph a function from an equation or table.  Students will be able to take a function, make a table of the function, and show it on a coordinate grid

Ø  Identify a function from a picture or graph.  A picture or graph will be given.   Students must be able to make a table from this so they can identify the function that the picture or graph represents.

Ø  Relate tables, graphs, equations, and pictures.  Students must be able to explain that tables, graphs, equations and pictures are all different forms or ways of representing the same thing.  I tell students this is called “completing the set.”  We do 4 different activities where students show me that they can do this.  The first two are paper/pencil.  Given an equation, table, graph, OR picture, students will have to complete the other 3 elements.  The third activity a matching activity.  I have laminated tables, graphs, equations, and pictures.  Students have to match them up.  The last is the summative assessment.

January COP Meetings:



January COP Meetings:

January 14 - Share a FA you have been trying out in your classroom.
                
January 21 - No school,  For COP, re-read pp. 44-55 in Margaret Heritage's book.
                                       Also, watch Heritage Webinar on the Coaches' section of the ORC Fams blog.
                                       It is also about Learning Targets (Goals) and Criteria for Success. There are
                                       handouts for this webinar on the site, too

Assignment:                   Take one standard in your discipline. From that standard, write a Learning
                                      Target and the Criteria for Success for that Learning Target. It would be best if
                                      you choose a standard you have not yet taught so you can use this work later in
                                      your teaching.

Post on our school FAMS blog.  (Jan 23rd if possible)

This is a reflection of the formative assessment that the 8th grade language arts teachers gave our students as an indicator to tell us what literary techniques the student understood from our unit on literary techniques.  The inclusion specialist created a graphic organizer.  The graphic organizer consisted of four parts, which was used to identify various literary techniques from a story they were given along with a description of the impact the technique had on the story.  After they completed the organizer we also gave the students time to self-reflect on their answers and discuss the information with partners.  From there we had a whole class discussion so that they could identify most of the ideas presented in the story. From this information the students were then able to use the gathered material as a study guide to use for the summative assessment.  Overall we thought this activity was very effective in allowing us to gather information regarding the students knowledge of the material.