PK-8
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In Person Inservice
12 CPE Credit Hours
2 Day Training

Mission Statement: Students will have consistent opportunities throughout the school year to become proficient in concrete connections between the paper world and computer world of assessment.
Objective Statement: The Content 2 Computer seminar will provide teachers with activities that teach students how to effectively utilize scratch paper and the online tools on the day of the assessment through continued use of the hands-on strategies throughout the school year.
Materials: Teachers do not need to bring any items in which to be successful in the inservice. All materials and manipulatives will be provided, including a 100+ page handout and several take-away manipulatives.
Abstract Overview: Content meets Computer, and they fall in love! Language Arts has a new life and excitement as we forge into the era of online assessment.
Teach BIG provides real-time applications so that students and teachers have confidence as they tackle STAAR 2.0. Learn how to use online assessment tools such as selecting and highlighting text evidence, striking-through distractor answers choices, and using the built-in notepad for annotating. We will take all of the available tools on the online STAAR 2.0 assessment and learn how to utilize them to the fullest by first experiencing them visually and kinesthetically through using hands-on manipulatives easily found in the everyday classroom!
Expected Outcome: Teachers and students will become familiar and confident with the available online tools as well as the on-scratch-paper strategies that will lead to successful test-takers for STAAR 2.0 and beyond.
Agenda
2 Day Training 12 CPE Credit Hours
Reading Comprehension
A. Text Connections and Inferencing
B. Textual Evidence (TRACKS)
C. Compare/Contrast Across Sources
Written Response Foundations
A. Shaping a Prompt
B. Brainstorming
C. Idea Development
Literary Exclusive
A. Character Relationships, Emotional Change, Character Growth
Informative Exclusive
A. Developing a Thesis
B. Idea Development
Argumentative/Opinion Exclusive
A. Recognizing the difference between opinion,
belief, facts
B. Claim/Counter Claim
C. Ethos, Pathos, Logos
Editing
A. Constructing simple, compound, complex
B. Conjunctions
Revising
A. Rearrange, Exchange, Add, Delete
Question Analysis
A. Multiple Choice Questions
B. Multi-Select Questions
C. Multi-Part Questions
D. Inline Questions
E. Hot Text Questions
F. Text Entry Questions
G. Understanding how to use the flag tool to mark a question that a student wants to return to before the end of a test
Answer Choice Analysis
A. Answer Choice Distractors
Short Constructed Response
A. Pieces of a Thesis
B. Utilize Textual Evidence
C. Physical Foldable transferred to scratch paper for test practice
Extended Constructed Response
A. Graphic Organizers for Informative/Argumentative
B. How to Develop an Idea Using Textual Evidence
C. Text Features and the Highlighting Tool
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