Gradual Release of Responsibility

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Gradual Release of Responsibility

After viewing the videos Improving practice with Sarah Brown Wessling (click here for a written transcript of the video) and Embedded formative assessments (click here for a written transcript of the video), and after reading Releasing responsibility by Fisher and Frey, discuss the following:

Part 1 
Sarah Brown Wessling remarks; “It is not about ways of delivering content as much as it is about ways of getting students to become thinkers; ways for students to be more autonomous.”

    • What evidence did you observe in Ms Wessling’s video that her students were becoming thinkers?
    • How is this an example of the teacher assessing FOR learning?

Part 2 
In Dylan William’s video on embedded formative assessments, he mentions five strategies for teachers to meet students’ learning needs more effectively.

    • Describe what you observed from Ms. Wessling’s video that represents each of these strategies.
    • Were there any that you did not observe?
    • What evidence was there of Ms. Wessling’s students examining their own thinking?
    • What evidence did you find to suggest she designed her instruction to meet instructional learning objectives in several areas of development (Think Bloom’s)?
    • What did you see from her video that you’d like to try (remember best practices are transferable across grade and age levels)?
Need Other Tutorials For EDU 645?

You may click on the links below to go to respective tutorial.
·         EDU 645 Week 1 Discussion 1 ( Formative Assessments )

·         EDU 645 Week 1 Discussion 2 ( Standards and Objectives )

·         EDU 645 Week 2 Assignment ( Instructional Plan Design Analysis )

·         EDU 645 Week 2 Discussion 1 ( Gradual Release of Responsibility )

·         EDU 645 Week 3 Assignment ( 21st Century Instructional Plan Plan Design & Description )

·         EDU 645 Week 3 Discussion 1 ( Integrating Technology )

·         EDU 645 Week 4 Assignment ( 21st Century Instructional Plan Student Population )

·         EDU 645 Week 4 Discussion 1 ( Special Populations )

·         EDU 645 Week 4 Journal ( Rubric Analysis )

·         EDU 645 Week 5 Assignment ( Performance Task Analysis – Summative Assessment Preparation)

·         EDU 645 Week 5 Discussion 1 ( Getting Students to Think About Their Thinking (Part 1) & Linking Rubrics with Students Self-Assessment and Goal Setting (Part 2) )

·         EDU 645 Week 6 Assignment ( Final Project – Curriculum Based Summative Assessment Design )

·         EDU 645 Week 6 Discussion 1 ( Using Student Data for Instructional Improvement )

·         EDU 645 Week 6 Discussion 2 (Elevator Speech )