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Both adults reacted to any airborne raptor, other Eagles, Vultures or Ravens. The screaming even rattled me a little it was so intense at times, it seemed to be effective the flyovers were gone in a hurry.
66024 waits for some passing traffic at Gobowen with 6M86 Margam to Dee Marsh steel on a foggy Thursday evening, 11.10.12
"Explored" 14th October 2012 - best position #38
My first assessment with the GIC went well I think……. An hour and a half of talking about my life and my GD and about how I’d always felt that I was burn in the wrong body. Some tears along the way but at least one good thing came out of it………. It felt good to talk it out and not to be judged by a person who understood.
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Snapped in Rethymno, Crete, Greece
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After assessment of the damage caused by the numerous earthquakes in Christchurch, New Zealand they decided to demolish the QEII stadium and it's swimming pool.
This drawing represents the necessary agreement between student literary proficiency level, level of text readability, and level of literacy- related demands upon the student when promoting literacy in a classroom. To build a successful literary classroom, there must be balance between the three.
The drawing also shows some of the tools a teacher has at their disposal when trying to assess their classroom to create this balance. For example, the one-one-one assessments are grouped together as 16th notes and are placed first on the staff because they would likely be used early on in the students school life and would be available records for future teachers to use. The cloze reading quarter note is placed on the line between text readability and student literary proficiency because it is testing both in relation to the other simultaneously. Lastly, research has shown that using formulas is the best way to assess text readability level, so I grouped two examples together as eight notes.
Ho lo sguardo strafottente?
...e chi lo sa.
Da queste ultime settimane di alti e bassi, ne sono uscita con questa faccia, che non è poi tanto male.
Riconfermo la tendenza a voler prendere la vita giorno dopo giorno, così come viene, sfruttandola nel migliore dei modi possibili.
Anche nell'eventualità di stare male, ci si può ricucire addosso uno spazio per la felicità , per il godimento di tutte le cose belle che la vita ha da offrire (e ve ne sono tante...).
Saluti e baci :)
Here are a few pics from the annual ram assessment competition held in Strandir where farmers and laymen alike compete in assessing the breedability of rams (the people get awards from correct assessment by a specific standard, the rams themselves are not competing).
When photographing this Bush Thick-knee family, I positioned myself a respectful distance from the foursome so that I could unobtrusively observe. Eventually this parent’s meanderings brought it very close to my location. When it finally noticed me, it eyed me from head to toe (as I tried not to breath). I guess it decided that I did not pose an immediate threat since it slowly turned and strolled away. However, I did notice that it subtly changed the trajectory of its foraging, successfully leading its family nonchalantly away from me.
Location: Brisbane City Botanical Gardens, Brisbane, Australia
Planning with the end in mind means you plan your Assessment of Learning first. Then you plan backwards to arrive at your Assessment for Learning and Assessment as Learning approaches.
Created using Microsoft Office powerpoint clipart.
In order for students to be successful in content area classrooms, there are foundational literacy components that need to be taken into consideration. A student's reading level affects his/her ability to comprehend and access information through text materials. Another important foundational element is the background knowledge that the student possesses on the content. When students have background knowledge on a particular topic, they are more likely to make connections and have a higher level of motivation to inquire more on the topic. A third "leg" that needs to be accounted for is the readability of the materials in the classroom. Texts and assignments need to be adjusted to maximize the interaction between the student and the materials. Lastly, the context of instructional methods is important because this allows the teacher to self-reflect and adjust his/her teaching to meet the requirements of his/her students. When one of these foundational aspects is not properly tended to, the students will struggle with learning the content.
Also in my drawing, the bars represent various assessments that help teachers to gather data and compensate instruction and materials based on the needs of the students. All the "legs" rely on one another and these assessments allow for "stability" to occur.
My drawing depicts a gas tank pumping fuel into a car. The gas tank is an important element of the drawing because it provides fuel necessary to make the car move. The purpose of the image is to show that the two elements function together or compliment each other. For example, gas stations stay in business because of cars and cars cannot function without some type of fuel. Similar to the fuel in a gas tank, literacy assessments, such as cloze testing, reading guides, standardized tests and readability formulas are the fuel for teacher’s instruction in content areas. The results from students’ performance on literacy assessments help determine the difficulty level of tasks, students readiness, support needed for students and elements the teacher feels is most important for students to understand. Please note that the literacy assessments (cloze testing and reading guides) can also be used as a content area assessment. One-on-one literacy assessments and content area assessments can be used interchangeably to assess a student’s knowledge.
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My picture represents a cross between a one-one-one assessment of Running Records to create guided reading levels for students, and the context area assessments of the three levels of reading ability; independent, instructional and frustration as well as adding in the Lexile Framework. The teacher is surrounded by all of her students. Each student has a letter on his or her shirt depicting what level of book they are on for guided reading.
There are a number of books surrounding the students giving them choices. Those books represent the independent level consisting of the highest level they can read, an instructional level and a frustrational level at the lowest. There is also a score at the bottom of the picture demonstrating the Lexile Framework. The Lexile Framework provides teachers with the correspondence of Lexiles approximately for each grade level. Those are the books she chose to incorporate into her classroom.
This helps the teacher assess the students one-on-one as well as a group in whole. The students also play a role in assessing themselves by picking the books the teacher has provided. They can read at their appropriate levels of challenge themselves to strive higher.
I chose to create an Umbrella because I saw chapter 3 and content area assessments as an umbrella term for all of the various tests, assessments, and data collections that are beneficial to our students and can determine an estimated reading level for our students.
Under my umbrella I've created raindrops that contain, the cloze test, leveled texts, running record data, the "off-track" children, (that somewhere they seemed to get off track in their reading abilities ), Lexile measurement, readability, teacher-self assessment, and most importantly to me - my students background knowledge or their "virtual backpack."
Additional credits go to Mother Nature - for raining today!
Here's a picture of a barn next to a corn field taken late last fall in northwestern Illinois, where some farmer paid tribute to his country and his god.
Four years ago in the weeks leading up to the inauguration of Donald Trump, I wrote one of my long essays prognosticating specific things I thought would happen during a Trump administration. Looking back at the results, I see it's a mixed bag. My prediction that Trump would get us into a large-scale global war didn't pan out despite Trump giving it a few good tries. I was right about Trump's wall (I said that other than a few small sections built for show, it mostly wouldn't happen), but I strongly underestimated the white nationalist motivation behind Trumpism and the effort they'd put into deportations. And I never imagined the concentration camps or the kids kept in cages.
I was unsure about whether Obamacare would be repealed, though I knew there'd be no replacement, and there wasn't. I said that either way, a lot of people would lose their health insurance. That number of people turned out to be somewhere around 10 million.
I correctly predicted Trump's trade wars, but overestimated the impact those trade wars -- and Trump in general -- would have on the economy. Mostly, the trends President Obama had set in motion after the recovery from the last Republican recession continued on despite Trump's best efforts, though Trump tried to take credit for establishing a trend he only inherited. The economy was really just fine right up until it hit the wall of Trump's failed response to the global pandemic.
I did not predict the global pandemic.
I predicted mass deregulation (which has happened) and large-scale sell-offs of government land (which tried to happen but wound up contained) and the elimination of at least a few protected areas. I thought Trump would bring about a thousand environmental catastrophes, and he has. I thought Trump and his Republican Congress would go after the Antiquities Act of 1906, but they only side-swiped it and otherwise mostly left it alone. I thought the nationwide push of state laws toward marijuana legalization would be reversed, but it was mostly unaffected.
I was most accurate with my predictions concerning the federal judiciary. Trump filled the three Supreme Court seats I said he'd fill and the hundreds of open Federal Court seats Mitch McConnell had worked so hard to leave empty for him. This leaves potential for probable attacks from the right on abortion and marriage equality that are just now beginning to build, and it will make any kind of progressive agenda that would please the leftists who voted against Clinton next to impossible. I said when we inaugurated Trump that we had lost the judiciary to the far right for at least the next two generations, and that's what's playing out.
So all in all, I'd give myself a 60%. I thought some things would be issues that weren't, and a lot of what were issues were things I didn't see coming. In the end, I think it's a question of precision versus accuracy. I wasn't very precise, but I knew beyond a shadow of a doubt that this would be the worst presidential administration of my lifetime. And I was 100% accurate in that. If anything, I undersold how bad it would be. James Buchanan fans should be happy. Trump will absolutely be remembered as the worst man ever to hold the office of President.
Just look at where we are now after four years of reality show leadership. We've made fools of ourselves on the world stage. We've sold out our allies and bowed down to our enemies and abandoned our standing as a leading world power. We helped an arrogant strongman transform Russia from a largely impotent failed state into one of the world's most significant threats. We faked toughness toward China that did nothing but give them increased control of the global marketplace. Similar fake toughness pushed Iran and North Korea to work even harder on the development of nuclear weapons. We cheered on threats to NATO, applauded the sundering of the European Union, and stood side by side with dictators and autocrats. We gave up any standing we might ever have had to promote democracy or human rights, because we stopped believing in even the veneer of those things at home.
At home, we became more cruel and more divisive as half the nation joined the MAGA cult. The endemic racism that has always lurked beneath the surface of this nation was given voice and tiki torches as Trump reassured all the racists that they were very good people. We eliminated anything we could find in the Federal infrastructure that might help people. We abandoned regulations that protected our air and our water and our landscape, though we still didn't get any jobs out of it; the coal mines and steel mills are still closed. We deepened our hatred of science and logic and reason and embraced insane conspiracy theories instead. We pretended that the most significant threat to human health to have appeared in a century was nothing more than a hoax, and we turned our reaction to it into a bunch of political stunts that resulted (at last count) in 400,000 American deaths. We pushed for the dismantling of the entire democratic process. We stormed the Capitol and tried to end the Republic.
Statements like "worse than the Civil War" always seemed so hyperbolic to me in the past. Then Trump came along and made it real. Now there are Q conspiracists in Congress, and states are talking about secession. And I'm at the point where I'd almost let them go.
But now it's all about to end. In less than a day -- only 20 hours and 51 minutes from the moment I uploaded this -- Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr. will be inaugurated the 46th President of the United States, and a new era will begin. A lot of that new era will look like the old era -- the blue flag you see here will still fly over this northwestern Illinois farm -- but at least Trump won't be around to feed the beast and facilitate the failures. I'm not going to make any prediction about how President Biden will do, as Trump has left him with immense challenges to overcome, and he leads a party that has a hard time holding itself together and working as a unit. I already see grumblings from the Far Left that make me want to kick people. I can't say precisely what's going to happen, but I think I can accurately say that it will be nowhere near as bad as what we've just endured. Whether it will be "not bad" enough to pull us back from the edge and keep some more horrifying version of this from happening in 2024 ... well, I can't say.
And Donald Trump? Sometime tomorrow, he's going go to an Air Force base and force a military band to play him a song and shower him in all the glory he thinks he deserves, and then he'll board a plane to Florida. There, he'll find some gold-plated room where he'll hide as his trophy wide divorces him and his business associates abandon him and prosecutors from a dozen states and the Federal government come to hunt him down, and he'll wallow in the knowledge that despite all his rage, all his arrogant, delusional, self-pitying sense of entitlement, he lost. I hope he withers there. My guess is he'll be dead well before the next time I write an inaugural reflection.
Either way, he can fuck all the way off.
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I rather like the interior which is both well put together (no rattles) and pretty good quality. It is however filthy and could do with a freshen up. This will be addressed shortly.
The initial assessment went quite well. The underside is in very good condition and the previous advisories of a damp steering rack and corroded front brake lines don't look to have worsened. Both sides will probably clean up fine.
Having driven it another 20 miles or so we discovered the thermostat is probably stuck open, which accounts for the temperature gauge I thought was non-functional. It does actually start to read when stationary, but cools straight off again when on the move. Annoyingly thermostat replacement is a cambelt-off job on these, however I have a work-around for this, which involves installing a thermostat in one of the top-hoses. Apparently this is a common fix on Rover 75s too.
The cool running, very short runs and long periods standing all appear to have contributed to condensation and thus mayonnaise in the underside of the oil cap. I was a bit concerned this could be a symptom of head gasket failure, however the coolant is fine and it's exhibiting no other symptoms of HGF. I'll keep an eye on it.
Initially it ran very well this morning, but after 15 miles or so it started to hesitate and misfire. We hooked up the diagnostic gear and a few codes came up. They relate to the EGR valve, crankshaft position sensor and camshaft position sensor. We managed to clear them and remove the EML, but the crankshaft sensor fault kept returning.
On the cosmetics front we tried and failed to remove the dent in the rear bumper (a job for a warmer day) and my neighbour tested some wax treatment on the rear 3/4 panel. We concluded something stronger is required!
So what's the plan? With the sensors being relatively inexpensive I'm going to get one of each and see what difference they make. I'm aware the actual problems could lie elsewhere, but this seems a reasonably inexpensive place to start. I'll also look at some options for the thermostat work-around. I'll not get a lot of time on this over the next few weeks, so it'll be a bit of a slow burn. I'll collect some parts, start to tackle the interior as and when I can and then do some fitting up in a few weeks time. Watch this space...
After reading Chapter 3, I connected the standardize testing assessment and the cloze testing to assessments I use in my reading groups to assess my students text level and their comprehension of the text.
In the chapter is spoke of The Raygor Readability Estimate which I felt was similar to the Running Records I complete to see if the text is too easy, right on track or too hard for the students. Also in the chapter, the cloze testing reminded me of the MAZE assessment that we complete to assess comprehension. In the cloze reading the students need to write in the correct word to complete the sentence. In the MAZE the students need to circle the correct word out of the three options to complete the sentence so it makes sense.
I created my picture based on my newest addiction in my life. All of the tools and materials that I need to ride a bike are considered the essential pieces that are then used to write the bike which would be considered the content area assessment. In order to complete riding the bike you need all of the materials to left. Just as you need all of those materials in a classroom to complete assessments in the content areas.
One of the finalists in the Grades 1-3 category: a harpist performing Hadyn's Andante (from the Surprise Symphony) and Charlotte in spring by Fiona Clifton-Wells.
This year's Avison Ensemble Young Musicians' Awards 2016 Finals were held on Sunday 14 February 2016 at the Literary and Philosophical Society, Newcastle and in the presence of the Mayor of Gateshead Councillor Alex Geddes.
The Awards assessors heard twenty-two finalists for the three categories of Grades 1-3, 4 - 6 and 7 and above. This year's honorary assessor was Bill Lloyd, Creative Programmer and Director of Cedars Hall at Wells Cathedral School.
The Awards were set up in 2006 to encourage young musical talent across the North East Region. The entrants to the Awards receive tuition and guidance, as well as important encouragement to continue their musical education. Everyone taking part in this event is given the same expert advice and assessments. The finalists are also assessed on their talents for live performance.
We're grateful to the Gillian Dickinson Trust . www.gilliandickinsontrust.org.uk and The Sir James Knott Trust www.knott-trust.co.uk for supporting this year's Awards.
And we're also grateful to the Literary and Philosophical Society for hosting this year's Finals and for generously presenting each of the winners with a year's membership. www.litandphil.org.uk
The Avison Ensemble is the outstanding period instrument orchestra based in Newcastle upon Tyne, which plays and popularises the music of Charles Avison (1709-1770) and other English classical composers of the Baroque period, such as Garth, Arne and Herschel. The Ensemble also performs Purcell, Handel, Vivaldi, Corelli, Geminiani, Pergolesi, Teleman, Rameau, Bach, Mozart, Haydn and Beethoven.
So a cookie is made up of multiple parts: eggs, flour, sugar, chocolate chips just like a student's literacy assessment should be. Using a multitude of different testing strategies with a student, teachers are able to grab different "ingredients" for a good reader, mix them together and churn out a well-rounded student who is able to learn in a variety of subjects.