Tuesday Teacher Tip
Tuesday Teacher Tip
With the ever-present need to prepare our student for state testing, I have gone to using Released Test Items from the LaDept of Education website for my daily bell ringers. There are 9 years worth of released items for 11th grade science and the same for 8th grade science. If I chose, I could even pull from the 4th grade items. Therefore, there is a wealth of questions, example answers, rubrics, etc. to use daily. I teach Physical Science and Biology to 9th and 10th grade students and they get daily points for writing the questions, marking the correct answer, and participating in class discussions. The idea of using this state assessment material is probably not new to most educators but, the difference that I have made in my classroom is to use the SmartBoard Notebook software to present the questions. The benefit of using this software (which is free to any CPSB teacher!!) is that you can be interactive with the text and you can easily cut out the “star” that the state placed next to the correct answer. I do not want my students to know the correct answer until I am ready to reveal it. If you do not have the product key code to install the Notebook software, simply ask your administration or the technology department — we have purchased a site license so the software is free and available. Also, you do not actually have to have a SmartBoard to use it, all you need is a computer and a projector.
Thanks!
Michelle Berry, M.Ed
C.E. Byrd High School
C.E. Byrd High School
April 20th, 2010 at 7:39 am
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