#UTedChat Questions for 05/16 – Assessment and Data
This week we have Steve Phelps (@KitledMath_T) a Math teacher at West High School in Salt Lake City, Utah leading the discussion on Innovative Data Practices and Reflections! This should be an excellent and informative topic for educators to start thinking about for the end of this year and ponder over the summer. Please come prepared to share your thoughts on Assessment and Data with the rest of the #UTedChat crew. If you haven’t already followed Steve via Twitter (@KitledMath_T) you should probably do so because it will help you to better follow the chat.
As always, please be sure to include #UTedChat in your responses so everyone participating can see your thoughts and ideas.
Q1: Using 3 adjectives, how would you describe this school year?
Q2: What data do you use to help guide your professional or instructional reflection?
Q3: How can educators move past the simple percentages to measure a student’s social-emotional skills?
Q4: How do you currently measure student social-emotional skills?
Q5: Share an innovative way you have helped students reflect on their data.
Q6: What other areas of student or teacher performance do you wish we measured more effectively and how would this feedback better inform instruction?
Q7: What support do educators need to implement innovative data practices measuring social-emotional learning?
Steve has spent the last 10 years teaching middle and high school mathematics in Utah. His instructional foundations are built on the mantra “Struggling in math is required to learn.” He has served as the D.A.D.S State President for UDSF and advocates for inclusive educational practices. In 2009, Steven was awarded Union Middle School Teacher of the Year. He graduated from UVU in 2009 with a B.S. in Mathematics. He innovated the classroom to incorporate movement and cooperative learning, called MathEverywhere.
You can follow Steve via Twitter at @KitledMath_T.
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