AER Strategy Form

EDBE 8Y01 Digital Portfolio: AER Strategy Form                  Name: Zachary Gill
GROWING SUCCESS POLICIES	My Professional Learning Goals 1 goal for each	Strategies For Meeting My Goals 1 strategy for each	Curated Resources minimum of 2 sources for each
POLICY Fundamental Principles	My goal is to learn how to create assessment tasks which address multiple curriculum expectations, but is clear to the students about how they can succeed.	Discuss with my associate teacher and find resources to learn about how to write using student friendly language in my success criteria or learning goals.	Learning Goals and Success Criteria: Retrieved from http://www.edugains.ca/resourcesDI/ProfLearningModules2011 /DiffInst_AssessmentandEvaluation/LearningGoalsSuccessCriteria ViewingGuide2011.pdf Make it Measurable: Set Clear Goals & Success Criteria for your Projects: Retrieved from http://www.disambiguity.com/make-it-measurable/ Co-Constructing Success Criteria: Retrieved from http://www.cea-ace.ca/education-canada/article/co-constructing-success-criteria
POLICY Learning Skills & Work Habits	My goal is to learn about how to assess learning skills and work habits by learning about what these learning skills look like.	Gather resources that go into more depth about what these learning skills mean and observe the students during my teaching block to see if I can assess them.	Sample Checklist of Learning Skills and Work Habits: Retrieved from https://portal.ddsb.ca/class/l4bn1yz/Lists/HandoutsandMaterials /LearningSkillsStudentSelfAssessmentChecklist.pdf Learning Skills: https://www.pinterest.com/pin/546342998525953415/ Learning Skills and Work Habits: Retrieved from http://www.edugains.ca/newsite/aer/collaborativeinquiryproject/ cipquestions/LearningSkillsandWorkHabits_HPEDSB.html Using Assessment and Evaluation Strategies to Support Students Retrieved from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wePut0cfzA
POLICY Performance Standards: The Achievement Chart	My goal is to learn more about each achievement category and learn about how these categories can be addressed in every lesson.	Search for resources that will help to gain a deep understanding of each category and what it looks like in the classroom.	Performance Standards: The Achievement Chart: Retrieved from http://www.yrdsb.ca/AboutUs/ReportingStudentAchievement/ Documents/ParentBrochure_AchievementChart.pdf Actions Verbs: Retrieved from http://beta.edugains.ca/newsite/aer/eModules/courseEngine/ actions_verbs.html Ontario Curriculum (Section on Assessment and Evaluation of Student Achievement)
POLICY Assessment FOR Learning & AS Learning	To find out about when each type of assessment is necessary and how it can be implemented.	Find resources that will list examples of assessment tasks that address each type and discuss with my associate teacher about what she does.	Co-Constructing Success Criteria: Retrieved from http://www.cea-ace.ca/education-canada/article/co-constructing-success-criteria How Should We Measure Student Learning? 5 Keys to Comprehensive Assessment: Retrieved from https://www.edutopia.org/comprehensive-assessment-introduction. Every Teacher’s Guide to Assessment: Retrieved from http://www.edudemic.com/summative-and-formative-assessments/ Types of Classroom Assessment: Retrieved from http://www.learnalberta.ca/content/mewa/html/assessment/ types.html
POLICY Evaluation	I want to learn more about the process of collecting and assessing student work to evaluating them with an overall grade. In addition, I want to know about what to do if a student hands in little or is failing to meet curriculum expectations.	Find resources from school boards (especially the one I am a part of) and determine what their grading policies are.	Student Assessment, Evaluation and Reporting in Peel Elementary and Secondary Schools: Retrieved from http://www.peelschools.org/trustees/boardpolicies/Documents/ Policy%2014.pdf Assessment, Evaluation and Report in Elementary School: Retrieved from http://www.peelschools.org/parents/helpyourchild/reporting /elementary/Pages/default.aspx.
POLICY Reporting Student Achievement	My goal is to become more familiar with the structure of reporting and how assessment collection data is plotted onto it.	Find resources or discuss with teachers in my placement school about how to fill out report cards.	Associate teacher and other staff at practicum school. Sample report card templates: http://www.edu.gov.on.ca/eng/document/forms/report/card/reportcard.html List of resources and generators to create report card sections: http://www.ontarioreportcards.com/ontario-report-card-resources.html Progress Report Cards: Retrieved from http://www.ontarioreportcards.com/ontario-report-card-resources.html
POLICY Students With Special Education Needs	My goal is to learn about different methods of modification, alternative learning, or accommodations and how they are created to suit a students needs.	Research with the purpose of discovering various examples of accommodations and modifications to help me understand this topic.	Learning for All Textbook: Bennett, S., & Dworet, D., with Weber, K. (2013). Special education in Ontario schools. (7th ed). St. David’s, ON: Highland Press. Modifications, Accommodations, and Differentiated Instruction: Retrieved from https://www.goleaps.com/articles/differentiatedinstruction Accommodations and Modifications: Retrieved from https://specialeducationontario.wikispaces.com/file/view/Modifications+and+Accommodations+by+Jacki+Oxley.pdf
POLICY English Language Learners	My goal is to find out what strategies are used to teach students who know little English.	Since my school board is so diverse (Peel Board), I want to look up the policy for ELL students.	http://www.peelschools.org/parents/programs/esl/pages/default.aspx Student Assessment, Evaluation and Reporting in Peel Elementary and Secondary Schools: Retrieved from http://www.peelschools.org/trustees/boardpolicies/Documents/ Policy%2014.pdf Steps to English Proficiency: Retrieved from http://www.edugains.ca/resourcesELL/Assessment/STEP/STEPUserGuide_January2012.pdf
POLICY The Kindergarten Program	Discover the major differences between assessing Kindergarten students and other students.	Study both Growing Success documents and list the differences.	Growing Success Growing Success: The Kindergarten Addendum (A detailed reading of both to discover the differences)