Again, thank you for yet another great guest. they all have been so interesting, generous, and inspiring this semester. and seriously many of us were saying after the lecture that we wished joanna was our lecturer in Assessment or ela or ? she gave such practical advice that also was also fun and great for engaging students. I took so many notes and will use so much of what she shared in the classroom.
Some highlights are included BELOW.
Creating Connections:   
• Mood scales are big right now (kid friendly ones
• Link mood scale to the curriculum (foreshadowing)
• Let the students have SOME control (contribute to the room design/layout)
• Step back – don’t micro manage let students have more say they will amaze you and it makes your job a little easier
• Feel good Fridays – low rick questions, what’s your fav animal.
• MEMEs are always a hit – for review and test incorporate them
• ROUTINE- start each day the same. You need predictability. They want to know what to expect. Joke of the day, would you rather questions for attendance
 • Class playlist
 • STUDENT survey – always – ask what they like, but also questions about how they learn and what they need to support learning
• GO SLOW – do one to 3 things, wait until the next year to add more, don’t stay til 7, 8pm…..
• Visual learners unite!! Visual schedule so important. REALLY help with transitions
ASSESSMENT
• Assessment AS learning often gets missed or passed over and it really tells you if students are understanding
• Talk to students about the language of the scale – when you give an assignment your job is to model what each of the levels could look like., When giving an assignment give models of at least 2. –
• Have the students also rank the work on the scale – sets them up to actually peer review. First lesson in a series where at the end they do a video of peer review. Did it together as a class – scale and why? Making their thinking visible. Any time they do stuff digitally they also write it on a whiteboard or chart paper (anchor chart).                   • CO-creating Rubrics: can do this from K-8. K’s are great at creating criteria and rules!! Always set a learning intention, then brainstorm all the criteria, then VOTING, then model two exemplars. Then create a final rubric.
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• Where’s my stretch and where’s my strength
• Can use arrows for moving from proficient to dev or extending  • don’t have to write video can bring out the shy ones