September 18, 2013
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Greg McVerry
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@MrsT73199 @lhighfill It would be an easyan duseful measure to assess close reading activitives and txt structure. Teach annotation, etc
Greg McVerry
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@dendari Is the second synchronous chat now? I signed in but no one was there.
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@edbookclub @Sanashihla I think could be done both with music and real life data.#HipHopEd
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RT @WWPscience: @antfitz A3 We are designing performance tasks to assess both content and 21st century competency. Ts working in teams to c…
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RT @Sanashihla: Connecting Hip Hop &math isn't about turning every math formula into a rap song; but embracing liberation associated w/ bot…
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@MeganStamer I just hope we use opportunity to track growth through the process and student reflection not just products. #njed
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It can be as simple (well not always easy) as developing culturally relevant problems that require math to solve. #HipHopEd
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RT @Vashonjj: social entrepreneurialism and Hip Hop is an excellent platform for math education #HipHopEd
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Mathematics is also about numeracy. Using numbers as arguments. Arguments as power #HipHopEd
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@MeganStamer I would prefer that. Conflating content, especially materials, to curriculum is never great imo #njed
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SGO are different than SLO but I have seen plent of bad SLOs such as "answer section 2.2 questions" #njed
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Remember the goal is growth. What is it you want students to know or do that they didn't or couldn't before. #njed
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In the end published expensive assessments are only marginally better than teacher created ones. Develop school wide measures. #njed
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RT @MeganStamer: @antfitz yes! and if there aren't great ones, take it slow and CREATE great assessments to use from year to year #njed
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@WHS_Principal @antfitz You could use suspension rates, absenteeism, office referral. SGO could revolve around reduction. #njed
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My advice for content area teahcers would be to focus on disciplinary literacies through text based talk and/or text based analysis. #njed
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@Luindriel @PrincipalArc Every assessment no matter the design will have error variance the goal is to limit this. #njed
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@PrincipalArc Then a performance assessment doesnt always make the best survey assessment IMO #njed
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A1: Would it not make sense to first determine an SGO before deciding how to measure it? #njed
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New blog post: OOE13 Introduction http://bit.ly/1f3kIqd #edchat #edtech #engchat
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