Project Description Overview A pre-assessment of student knowledge and skills he

Project Description Overview A pre-assessment of student knowledge and skills helps teachers know students’ prior knowledge about a topic. In many cases, you are likely to find that some students already understand a topic or concept at a high level. Other students have some knowledge about the topic/concept, but not a very deep understanding of it. Other students will have limited knowledge or hold misconceptions about it. With this information you can begin to figure out how you keep the high achievers engaged with the topic to increase their depth and breadth of understanding. At the same time, you need to be creating strategies to help students with limited knowledge develop it while students in the middle are also helped to expand their knowledge. Performance outcomes Candidates will analyze how diagnostic and summative assessments can be used for differentiating instruction and informing teaching practice. What will you do? In the virtual classroom, discuss how pre assessments and summative assessments align and how they can be created utilizing backward design. Allow the following questions to guide your discussion: What is the purpose of pre-assessment? Why is it important that the information on your pre-assessment align with the information on your summative assessment? How can you utilize backward design to create appropriate instruction based on what your summative assessment is measuring? How will you use the information from your pre-assessment to inform your instruction and grouping strategies in the classroom? Reflect upon how you can align pre-assessment and summative assessment in your grade/subject area as well as how the data that you gather from your pre-assessment can inform your instruction and grouping practices in the classroom. Analyze the importance of utilizing the data from your pre-assessment to drive your instruction and the impact that this practice will have on your students. Report Requirements Cohort discussion on aligning pre-assessment with summative assessments Reflection on Data Driven Instruction Notes You will be doing a deep dive into backward design in Module 6.