Team: Intermediate Date: February 23, 2010 Time: 8-12:00
Site: Anytown Elementary Facilitators: Recorder:
Team members present: 3rd, 4th & 5th grade teachers
Agenda items:· Process for common assessments
-common assessments templates
· Grade level work time
-creating common assessments
-timelines for giving assessments, analyzing
results
· Sharing ideas / Comments on minutes:
CTeacher led
C3/4/5 teachers met together
CAssigned tasks to do prior to reconvening
DNo discussion about group’s progress toward SMART goal
Summary of activities and dialogue emphasized during this meeting:
-Becca shared ideas for developing common assessments, both formative and summative. She shared a template and the group discussed ideas to consider when developing common assessments. The group also discussed ideas for analyzing assessment results
-Issues regarding resources and addressing student needs were also talked about and team members brainstormed ideas around strategies for providing interventions. It was decided that this conversation be tabled until teachers had time to develop common assessments and analyze the data.
-Grade level partners worked together to create common assessments for the current or upcoming math unit. The group came back together and shared as follows:
Third grade: regrouped indicators and rewrote essential questions and developed common assessments for a third grade geometry unit.
Fourth grade: unwrapped standards and looked at a measurement unit and supplements for the Investigations unit.
Fifth grade: looked at essential questions previously generated and looked at how Investigations curriculum aligns with the essential questions. They also looked at supplemental lessons provided in the fifth grade supplemental binder and began developing common formative assessments for the fifth grade geometry unit.
Agreements regarding next meeting
Who / When / What / Ö when completed
Becca
Luther
Michelle
Lonnie / Prior to March 18 / Collect ideas for common formative math assessments specific to core math program
Date/Time/Site of next meeting: March 18, 12:30-4:00 in the conference room
Agenda items for next meeting:
· Develop common formative assessments for math for each grade level
· Review the draft assessments as a group and revise, edit as necessary
· Develop a plan for administering the assessments and analyzing the data