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Orting School District teachers outline a universal informational-text task and daily self-assessments
Summary
Orting School District ELA and history teachers presented a plan to create a single informational-text task usable across texts, and described daily entry tasks that include posted learning targets, success criteria and a student self-assessment rubric ("4 is mastery"). Presentations also noted use of iReady and a student 'star chart' incentive.
Orting School District teachers described plans to develop a single, cross-disciplinary informational-text task and to use daily self-assessments to help students monitor progress toward learning targets. The proposals were presented during a staff meeting by members of the district's ELA and history departments.
A department presenter said the teams were "tasked as both ELA and history to come up with an informational task resource" that would work for any text type, not only traditional informational texts. The presenter said the goal is to give students…
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