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Development Format 1) Topic: Creating a reading assessment using Turning Points

2) Audience: 2-5th grade teachers @ Lincolnway Elementary

3) Participants: 1 tech coach, 2 reading specialists, 1 teacher from grades 2-5

4) Location: Trimmer Elementary Faculty Inservice room with mobile lap top kit, overhead LCD, response devices, and Dongle

5) Resources: Who: 2 Reading Specialists, 1 Reading Curriculum Specialist, 1 Technology Inservice Coordinator, 1 Technology Systems Specialist

What: PA standards, WY language arts curriculum, Released items, 4 Sight baseline and session 1 data

6) Topics: A) Logic for using program B) Accessing Turning Points C) What is a slide? D) Creating a question E) Turning Points Toolbar Features F) Creating multiple choice questions aligned with standards G) Plugging the questions into Turning Points

7) Objectives: -The trainee will learn how to access turning points -The trainee will use PA reading standards and school curriculum to create a formative reading assessment using the Turning Points software.

8) Supporting: -The trainee will implement the assessment created in their classroom

9 Activities: A) Demonstration: Captivate video B) Brainstorming: The participants will work with reading specialists to analyze data and create test questions C) Instruments: Survey to gather group input and insights D) Job aids: employee will utilize job aids to perform implementation of assessment E) Lecturette

10) Media: A ) Notes pages of Captivate presentation B) 4-sight item analysis data from baseline and test 1 C) Released item packet from PDE D) Captivate presentation for trainees E) How To: Turning Points Aids F) Multiple choice format sheets

11) Summary: The purpose of the workshop was to create a quick, standards & curriculum aligned assessment that would assess student mastery of prior taught materials in a highly engage fashion.

12) Q & A: A ) How can the use of Turning Points assist you in measuring student mastery of prior learning? **//It can provide a highly engaging, quickly teacher created assessment which grades itself and offers class data immediately following implementation.//** B) Which menu on the Turning Points toolbar would you select to insert a vertical slide? C) What are the three components of a vertical slide? D) How do you access Turning Points from the log-on screen?