Open-Ended+Questions+for+Students+in+Resource+Center

**October 11, 2010 ** **1. **** SMART Goal ** ( **S **pecific, **M **easurable, **A **ttainable, **R **ealistic, and **T **imely): To improve proficiency answering open ended questions for the NJ Ask Language Arts for resource center students. **2. **** Rationale: ** Resource center students experience difficulty answering open ended questions even when they understand the text. Teacher observation and NJ Ask test scores corroborate this belief. ** 3. ****<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt;"> Action Plan ** Colleen Monica || October-March || Determining base level || Colleen Monica || October-March || Students internalize the steps to answering open-ended questions || Colleen Monica || October-March || Students increase sense of efficacy with open-ended questions and move up on the rubric scale || Colleen Monica Amy Del Coro || October-March || Develop final strategies to address weak areas || Colleen Monica || October-March || Formative assessment || **<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt;">4. ****<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt;"> Group Member Names: ** · Diane Leiher · Colleen Maiuri · Monica Heinze **<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt;">5. ** **<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Which Middle School goal does this impact? ** Goal #3
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Professional Learning Communities In-Service **
 * **Activity** ||  **Person Responsible**  ||  **Timeline**  ||  **Outcome**  ||
 * Pre-test based upon NJ Ask open-ended examples || Diane
 * Create student friendly rubric for open-ended questions || Diane
 * Create and embed activities and strategies into lesson plans both specific and experiential || Diane
 * Conference with general education teacher for kinesthetic input || Diane
 * Teach or Re-teach answering open-ended questions based upon the rubric. Give individual instruction to individual students || Diane