Anticipation Guide – Week 7

Name: Santina Polacco

Instructions:
Before you begin this module, please consider the statements in the centre column. Please refer to
Growing Success, the videos, and other materials to guide your learning. Then in the first column (to
the left of the statements), simply circle T (true) if you agree with the statement or F (false) if you
disagree with the statement. Upon completion of viewing the videos, revisit the statements by circling
T or F AND explain why in the third column (to the right of the statements). Then, upload your
completed anticipation guide to your Week 7 DLP Guiding Questions. This will serve as your guiding
questions for the week! Please note: all of the valuable information in the videos is not captured here
but please feel free to add as many notes as you need for future reference and upcoming interviews!

Before
we Things to consider… Now that we’ve finished…
begin…
1. The primary purpose of
T or F T or F /Why?
assessment is to
enhance - gather relevant information about student
performance or progress
accountability.
- determine student interests to make judgments
about their learning process

2. The purpose of the T or F /Why?

achievement chart is to
T or F guide assessment.
- guide the development of high-quality
assessment tasks and tools like a rubrics)
- it also helps teachers to plan and create
instruction for learning
- it allows for teachers to be able to establish
categories and criteria which will allow the
teacher to assess and evaluate students' learning

T or F 3. Balanced assessment T or F / Why?

reflects the four
categories of
knowledge and skills
over the cycle of
learning.
4. Professional
T or F T or F / Why?
judgement is at the
heart of effective
assessment so I really
do not need to worry
about documenting
too much because I am
the professional.
- Balanced assessment reflects the four categories
of knowledge and skills over the cycle of learning.
- assessment system where tools, methodologies
and data systems inform decision-makers such as
administrators on learning decisions
- system that mixes periodic, standardized testing
with day-to-day classroom assessments
- Just because you are a professional does not
mean you know it all
- We are always learning
- DOCUMENTING IS KEY

5. Gathering evidence of
T or F T or F / Why?
learning is best done
via paper and pencil - With the technology we have now you can do the
tasks so I have same thing just typing and having more than one
documentation to back copy
up my final grades for
report cards.

6. To calculate the
T or F T or F / Why?
students’ final grade, I
just average out all of - Find the average of each category by adding all
 the quiz and test
the grades in one category together, then dividing
grades.
them by the number of grades there are.

7. When planning my
T or F T or F / Why?
course, unit, or year
with the end in mind, - Correct, at the end you need to make sure will
we start only with the they be able to met those goals before you start
learning expectations. planning

8. Achievement charts
T or F T or F / Why?
are helpful when long-
term planning.
- provide a common framework that encompasses
all curriculum expectations for all
subjects/courses across grades
- guide the development of high-quality
assessment tasks and tools (including rubrics)
- help teachers to plan instruction for learning
- HELPS WITH LONG TERM PLANNING

Additional Notes:

One or two examples of this action that

you had not previously considered: