Speaker 1: All right, we are at 4.30 Eastern time, so we're going to go ahead and get started. Kendra, thanks for joining us. All right. While we're jumping in here, we're going to get started with lesson delivery and formative and how to use formative to make lesson delivery smooth and efficient for you and engaging for your students. All right. Let's get started. All right. Quick introduction. My name is Katie Rush. I'm a senior client success manager here at formative. I am a former teacher. I taught fifth grade for seven years before joining the formative team. And in my free time, I like to cook, crochet, and I play on a softball team. All right. Before we get started today, I just want to let you know we've got a couple of things going on. Please, please, please go ahead and use the chat just like we've started doing. Welcome Paulette. Thank you for joining us tonight. Please use the chat to ask questions. I do have it up in front of me. If I don't get to your question right away, we will get back to it. I promise we'll cover it before we leave. We are going to be recording so that this session is available for you on our training center when we are all set and done with it. Our marketing team is going to make it all thick and span for us and spiff it up for us and then it will be available on our training center so you can come back to this and use it as a reference or share it with your other teachers that you work with who you think could use a little boost from formative. We're going to go for about 30 minutes today. It will probably finish up a little bit early so there'll be plenty of time for questions. And then we will have a survey at the end and the survey is how you get your certificate of attendance. So we always love feedback from our teachers. And so if you fill out the survey, you will get a certificate of attendance so you can keep it for your PD records for yourself. And that will get sent out at the end of February to your email. All right, let's go ahead and get started with what we're going to cover today. It looks like a lot. It's actually going to be pretty simple so you can see exactly how this would fit into your day to day without being a ton of extra work. We're going to go over what it means to live teach with formative. So we're going to show an example of a completed lesson that's ready to go. And we'll learn some tips and tricks for formatting how to organize things that are going to make sense as you're moving through your lesson. We're going to show you how you can get that great data while you're teaching rather than waiting until the end of your teaching lesson, because we all know if we can make adjustments in the live lesson with your students, making sure we're catching those misconceptions right away. It's a great way for us to make sure that our students are learning and that they're making progress. We'll also see examples of what live data will look like in case you haven't seen it to be able to get a picture of how clear and easy it's going to be for you to see how your students are doing. We're going to also go over the setup. Sometimes it's kind of tricky to figure out the best way to set up your screens or your monitors so that you can see everything you need to see and make sure your students don't see what they shouldn't see. So we'll go over some tips and tricks for setting up your screens or your monitors to be projecting what you need to and keeping hidden what you need to. You will also walk away at the end of this with a folder of formatives to adapt and change for your lesson in your classroom. We always like to give you some things to get started so you don't have to make it all from scratch. You're welcome to take the templates and the lessons examples that you're getting today and change them however works best for you and your students. Let's go ahead and jump into it. So I'm going to switch over here to my formative tab. The first thing I'm going to start with is an example of a completed lesson. This is a math example, but there are language arts examples that are coming to you in the folder you're getting. I promise it's not just math. And the first thing I'm going to do is I'm just going to scroll slowly through this for a second. And I want you to pay attention to what stands out about the organization of this. Can you spot the different components of your lesson that you would teach normally with

Speaker 2: your students? And even if you're not teaching math, look for the structure here. All right, go ahead and throw it in the chat.

Speaker 1: Did this generally follow the structure of how you do maybe whole group or intro lessons? Did you see the components that you would normally use when you're teaching with your students?

Speaker 2: Go ahead and throw it in the chat, yes or no. Did you see those components? Awesome. We've got our warm up here.

Speaker 1: Warm up, getting students ready to go, seeing where they're at as a starting point. These responses to this question are a great thing to project on the screen in your Smartboard or whatever you have in your classroom. Projecting these answers without student names is a great way to build in that collaboration and conversations for classes to build that background knowledge as a group. So this is a great opportunity to really encourage those conversations, those peer-to-peer conversations. And ensuring that we're building collective knowledge before we get started. We've got some scaffolds here with some pictures and vocabulary that are going to be really helpful for students as we move through this lesson, making sure they can always come back to this information and use it as they're working. An interactive simulation here where students can really kind of get a physical touch to something that is not concrete, it's a little bit more abstract. And so students can actually play with this as they're moving through. Click too many buttons there. As they're moving through the lesson, they can actually get a feel for what this looks like as you change the length of the sides. And what do we notice here on the right-hand side? We've got three formative assessment questions that are built into the lesson. These are examples that you would have students either write in their notebooks or do on a piece of paper as you're moving through the lesson anyway. And now as a teacher, you get to see these three questions on the view responses tab while you're teaching, which means you can make those real-time adjustments. You can make those pivots and say, nope, we're not ready to move on yet. We need to spend more time identifying the hypotenuse here. We need to spend more time really diving into understanding how these relationships work, how these sides are related to each other. Or your class is good to go and you can keep it moving. You get to spend time and you get to leverage the information that you're getting from these quick questions to be able to help pace your lesson in a way that's going to be meaningful for your students and representative of where they are with their learning. Again, examples here that you can do live with students as you work through this so that they have an example to build from. And then again, two more big check-ins. Another great place for you to really pivot if you need to, or you see right away who you need to pull for a small group or for intervention later. This is a great way because by the time we hit the end of these two questions and we're getting ready to shift into that independent work or that partner work, we now as teachers have five data points on our students on how they know or understand this concept. And so, we can make informed decisions about who we're pulling immediately for that targeted intervention and who's good to go to work independently.

Speaker 2: Overall, that's the idea behind using teacher pace mode

Speaker 1: or using formative for lesson delivery. A couple of structural things I want to show you. These content blocks, these white blocks here where we have content on the left-hand side and some questions on the right-hand side. This is how I want you to think of your sections as you're moving through your lesson. Where are you going to like your students to be focusing, seeing all at once, working through questions with the same information? That's going to be how you're going to block out your lesson here. So, I only want students to see this one question with this picture. And so, when I added this image, this one question I added on the right-hand side of this. And so, when we look at this from a student perspective,

Speaker 2: all they will see is just the image and just the question.

Speaker 1: Whereas with the embedded simulation, they see the simulation and they see the three questions all at once because they need this simulation for all three questions. So, think about the content blocks as kind of your structure that you want

Speaker 2: to keep together and what you want to keep separate, okay?

Speaker 1: So, what I want to show you now is what those responses will look like and how you use these types of questions, these short answer and formative assessment questions to help guide that instruction.

Speaker 2: So, I'm going to pivot over here to one that already has some information on it. Some data on it. I'm going to hide these names. Okay. So, your live responses, if you've never looked at them,

Speaker 1: come in on this view responses tab. And so, you can watch here and see as students are answering whether or not they've got question one, two, three, or four. So, you know, as a teacher, if I've got a lot of people who look like here in question number two, overall, that really wasn't a great question for them. That really wasn't a great question for them. I got a lot of people who got some half credit, who got no credit. So, this is going to be one that if I see a lot of my students getting these colors on and I'm teaching, it's definitely going to be, I'm going to pause for a second.

Speaker 2: Let's go over this. Let's look at this. But if they're getting all greens, we're good to go. I mentioned before showcasing student responses.

Speaker 1: So, let me go here. This is the same type of question that I had on that introduction, that warm up question. So, what you can do is if you put your student responses on the screen, this gives you a chance to, as a group, talk through patterns that you're seeing. And if you hide names, it gives you a chance to have students be vulnerable with their answers without having to be put on the spot and raising their hand. So, great ways for you to catch those misconceptions and a great way for students to give peer feedback

Speaker 2: to their other classmates without knowing who's doing what. Okay. All right. So, you've created this beautiful formative. You're ready to assign it for teacher pace mode. You're ready to teach with it. All you have to do is come up here into the assign settings.

Speaker 1: Select the class that you want to assign it to.

Speaker 2: Turn on teacher pace mode. It's right here in the middle. And then hit assign. You can also post it through Google Classroom if it's a Google Classroom school or Google Classroom class. And you'll be prompted with this start button. When you get ready to start, here's the teacher pace mode that you can project onto your smart board, onto your board,

Speaker 1: wherever you have things, the ability to project. This is the tab that you want to have shared for your students. This is the one that you can move them through that will change on their screens

Speaker 2: that will let them see all this information up on the screen. As a teacher, you're going to want to have this view responses tab open.

Speaker 1: So, you'll notice at the top here, when I open this up in teacher pace mode, I got a new tab. All I had to do is flip back to my original tab and it's already toggled to the view responses for me. I can now watch as my students answer questions here and keep track of how we're doing on my view responses tab. A really helpful setup that I've seen for this is to split your screen. If you don't have two screens, splitting your screen like this is really a great option because you can share this one tab or this one window on the right-hand side with the students on the screen. And then you as a teacher can keep track of your responses on this screen. If you have two screens, another great option is to split your screen If you have two screens, another great option is to split it entirely and have your view responses on a separate screen so that you can keep track and keep an eye on that data. So, lots of options to help you kind of manage those two different opportunities for presenting and teaching from content on the right-hand side here

Speaker 2: and then information on the left. Another really great feature that I think is totally underutilized with Teacher-Based Mode is this pause button here. When you hit this pause button, what it does is students are no longer able to respond to the formative. They no longer can answer these questions.

Speaker 1: And so, if you get to this, they no longer can answer these questions. And so, if you get to this part of the lesson or you get to any part of the lesson and you realize, nope, my answers are off, I need to make a pivot. By pausing this, you know your students aren't going to be continually trying to answer or change their answers. You can ensure that they're focusing more on what you're saying rather than the formative itself. So, using that pause button is huge, super helpful.

Speaker 2: And when you're ready for them to respond, all you have to do is unpause it. Okay. This end session button in the top right-hand corner,

Speaker 1: you have three different options. You can switch it to Student-Based Mode. So, as I'm teaching this lesson, when I get to this section, this is where I'm going to start to switch to Student-Based Mode. I want to go over my directions first while I still have my students focus on me. So, I'll go over this and then I'll switch it to Student-Based Mode. And my students will have an option to go back to the beginning of the formative and see the entire thing. So, they can go back to that vocabulary slide.

Speaker 2: They can go back to their other examples and see what we've worked on so far. You also have the option to force submission.

Speaker 1: So, if this is a lesson that you're teaching and you don't have a student-based section, you don't have that independent work section, you want students to shift to something completely different, you can actually force the submission here, which means it'll auto-submit for every single student that's in the formative. So, that's a really great way if you're looking to kind of close out the lesson and have students not be able to go back and look at their answers. You just want to wrap it up and be done. Forcing that submission is a really easy way to do that. Or if you're done with the assignment, you're ready to close it down when you're done teaching it. You don't want students to access it again or see it on their dashboard. Closing the assignment is another great option. So, you have a couple different choices as you're moving through the end of your session or getting ready to transition out of that instructional mode

Speaker 2: and into more of either another activity or independent mode. So, what I'm going to do is I'm going to show a different,

Speaker 1: I'm going to show a writing lesson just to give you a little bit of perspective, not just a math lesson here. This one is a writing lesson that's built around point of view. So, again, you'll notice some of the similar components. In this case, I used sections to help organize this. Sections don't show up on teacher-paced mode, but they show up for students when they're working through formative. So, if this is more of an independent activity for students, you want them to work on it more on their own, they're pacing themselves. Sections are a great option to use here. And then to add a section, you just come into this layout

Speaker 2: in the bottom right-hand corner and look for add a section. So, you'll see my sections as I move through here.

Speaker 1: Again, a couple of warm-up questions. This is for a little bit more in-depth analysis. So, looking at a couple of warm-up questions here instead of just one.

Speaker 2: But, again, utilizing that content block to structure what I want students to be working on at once. Here's my formative assessment that's built in.

Speaker 1: You'll notice for these short answer questions, I have the heart of a correct answer. If they are including these words, they're correct or their answer will likely be correct. So, saving myself that time, making sure that my questions are auto-graded for my formative assessment. So, I can see that really quick color code and know where my students are. Adding in those answer keys to the formative assessment pieces

Speaker 2: as you're teaching is a really great way to help with that. Building into a little bit more of a complex in-depth formative assessment.

Speaker 1: This is a little bit longer form where students are picking a couple different options here, either the person or the birds and writing about this picture and about what's happening here from those perspectives. You'll see I also have rubrics built in here. So, while maybe I'm not going to look super closely right away at these responses, I can come back to them and use the rubric and assess their responses from this in-class assignment and then compare it to a more longer form perspective writing based on a different scenario. And you'll see I have the same rubric down here. So, again, making it really easy to compare where students started, where their learning was, and where they ended at the end of the lesson. This one also has a really fun kind of bonus activity for students to play out one of their point of view scenarios that they're writing about in a video. So, lots of opportunities here to kind of explore what formative assessment is and what assessment looks like,

Speaker 2: not just multiple choice questions or quick short answer questions. All right.

Speaker 1: One more tip and then I will move on to giving you the file of folders that you're going to be able to run with and the survey here. And we can wrap up with some questions. If you have students that some of them are in class or you have students who are absent or maybe not able to be part of the class that day, these formatives are a really great option to ensure students are still having access to the content you taught in the same format that you taught it. If you leave this as a student-paced formative and the students who are absent are able to go through the formative at their own pace, work through what's there, check in with you, you can always go back and add a video, a short instructional video to help them through different components. So maybe to talk through what you talked through with the class on this image or with this content, you can add a video here of yourself and talk your students through who were absent on how to do this. Okay, so lots of options to make a couple of adjustments to accommodate both students who are present in class with you, students who may need to go back over the lesson at a later time, or students who maybe were absent when the lesson was given. And this way, they can still have access to that high-quality content that you created in those high-quality lessons.

Speaker 2: So just one more piece there. Okay, so we have a survey, we have a giveaway of a folder,

Speaker 1: and we have question time. I'm here to demo and help you with anything formative related. I'd like to keep it as close to lesson delivery as possible. But if there's other questions I can help you with, I'm happy to do that now. So here is the survey that we need to fill out

Speaker 2: in order to get your certificate of attendance. And then here is the copy link for that folder of formatives.

Speaker 1: You are getting four formatives, I think I put in there. Yeah, oh three. So you've got a subtraction with regrouping, you've got point of view, and you've got Pythagorean theorem. All of them are set up a little bit different as places to start. I know we have some non-math and language arts teachers here with us today, and that's okay. Feel free to use the structure and fill in and swap out your questions and your content to make it really relevant for you. But if you don't have any questions, and you've got your survey link, and you've got your clone code for your three formatives, I hope you have a wonderful rest of your day or evening, depending on where you are in the world tonight and today. Remember to check back at our training center. We have new webinars that are posted every month, so definitely come back and check out and see what other webinars we have coming up in March. Our training center is going to be where you're going to find the recording for this webinar or for this webinar, and that will be up towards the end of next week. And we hope to see you again in another webinar soon.