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I'm working on Component 4. I teach 8th grade math. I was going over my parent surveys that I gave at the beginning of the year, and many parents said their students struggled with fractions. I have seen this also (every year) when solving equations or simplifying slope ratios. Anyway, fraction operations and simplifying fractions are not 8th grade standards, so how could I use this for my assessment piece? Or would it be better for the "student need"?

I've got several ideas for student needs, such as needing to change from a fixed to a growth mindset related to math, and I could use learning to help them (and their parents) with that for my professional need too. Is that okay, versus a specific mathematical skill?
What Works The student need and the professional need do not need to be content specific the same way the assessment section needs to be. The student need and the professional need CAN be related but don't HAVE to be. Hope that helps.

On 1/16/17, mathinmiddle wrote: > I'm working on Component 4. I teach 8th grade math. I was > going over my par...See More
Jan 16, 2017
mathinmiddle On 1/16/17, What Works wrote: > The student need and the professional need do not need > to be content specific the same way the assessment > section needs to be. The student need and the > professional need CAN be related but don't HAVE to be. > Hope that helps. > > > > > On 1/16/17, mathinmiddle wrote: >> I'm w...See More
Jan 16, 2017
mathinmiddle I'm wrestling with the rationale for the assessment section. How do I demonstrate a "need" for a particular standard I am required to teach that students haven't been exposed to before. Or, if my students show a need for practice with fractions, do I do a mini-unit on that even though it isn't an 8th grade standard?

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Jan 16, 2017
Biophysteach Perhaps fractions is a prerequisite skill for a topic in your curriculum? Since you have identified it as a need, you would teach students this skill before moving on to the curriculum topic. Would give you plenty of chances to explain how you used the data to modify the unit for these students.

On 1/16/17, mathinmiddle wrote: > I'm wre...See More
Jan 16, 2017
Kaleb40 Maybe the self-assessments could be on fractions and the
formative and summative assessments could be on a unit
that includes fractions as a prerequisite. Then you can
gauge how their improvement with fractions impacted
learning the other topic.

On 1/16/17, Biophysteach wrote:
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Jan 21, 2017


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