SALTA 4th grade

Unpack in the standard(s).

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• Team divides up parts of the assessment that need to be reviewed or developed. • Each team member is responsible for a section of the assessment. • Teacher teams then review the entire assessment before launching their instruction.

3. Write the assessment together target by target and question by question • Select a learning target(s) • Unpack the standard(s) • Select the passage (ELA) • Teachers use sticky notes and write three to five questions • Team members place the sticky notes in the center of the table • Teams will have 15-25 questions •

Sort into piles according to levels of rigor to create an item bank of leveled questions (DOK) i. Lower level, good summative, rigorous questions • Decide which questions will be used for a common formative(s) or classroom assessing.

4. Individually develop assessments, and collectively check for alignment and rigor • Each member of the team writes their own assessment for classroom use. •

After the assessments have been written the team reviews and approves all the assessments.

Erkens, C. (2016). Collaborative common assessments: Teamwork. Instruction. Results . Bloomington, IN: Solution Tree Press, a division of Solution Tree.

May 2019