Data! Data!Data! and Presenting Playfully!
by Oldschoolteach
This post is twofold, a little about data and a little about a playful presentation about data.
We celebrate data, “Data Day!”, on June 11, this is a districtwide thing we got going on. Every school gets together as a staff and “celebrates” the data that we have gathered. I have nothing against data. As a matter of fact, my team got a better understanding of how to use data to guide instruction this year. We used data to plan carousels(students travel from room to room to hit on a certain skill), focus on particular strategies, etc….
However, I did have an issue with my new friend, data. In order to gain data, I had to assess my students, assess, assess, assess. It became an endless round of assessing, and my students were sick of it! I can’t blame them. Formative tests, pre/post tests, DCAS, common assessments(district), universal screening… And then, guess who has to input the data if it is not on a scantron form?
That’s enough griping, on to the playful part! For Data Day, we have to “think outside the