![]() ![]() Quick!īy keeping your pre-assessment focused, you can make the testing procedure nice and quick – for you and your students. Naturally, this would look very different depending on your grade-level and curriculum. However, I might give a pre-assessment covering all cases of “Adding and Subtracting Decimals.” This is a “chapter sized” chunk and might take two weeks to go through following the textbook. The topic of “Adding Single-Digit Decimals” might be too small, since it’s a one-day lesson and was covered in previous grades. We don’t want to discourage students by constantly announcing that no one passed.Īs an example, for my 6th graders, a pre-test covering all decimal operations would be too large. Plus, this chunk is small enough that several students can be expected to pass the pre-assessment. This will give you a chance to spread out testing as well as develop a decent-sized activity for those students who do demonstrate mastery. However, a single day’s lesson is too small and will bury you in paperwork as you try to pre-assess on a daily basis.įind a chunk of material that would take a week or two to cover. You won’t find many students who can demonstrate mastery of such a large topic. ![]() Pick a reasonable sized topic to pre-assess. Here are six traits of a quality pre-assessment: 1. The only way to find these students is to pre-assess. We’ve got to move them onto something else. ![]() Many of them remember the topic you’re teaching from previous years, learned about it outside of school, or simply understood your lesson right away. How many meetings have you sat through, going over material you had already mastered? Have you ever understood something quickly, but had to trudge through 45 more minutes of examples and explanations?įor our gifted students, their school career is a long stretch of those meetings. This complaint is completely understandable. The stuff we do in school is too easy and it’s boring. In her study on the “ The Eight Great Gripes” of gifted students, Judy Galbraith identified boredom with school as gripe number two.Ģ. ![]()
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