Support a balance of assessments, including high - quality standardized testing along with
effective classroom formative and summative assessments
Not exact matches
Formative assessment, especially when embedded into the
classroom instruction process, is
effective in moving all students forward in their learning.
Each time I learn a new
formative assessment strategy, I wish that I can have a redo of one of my years in the
classroom to apply the strategy and make my instruction that much more
effective.
The new FIT Teaching ™ tool kit comprises resources for creating a positive and productive school and
classroom culture, establishing a purposeful
classroom, employing gradual release of responsibility strategies to provide multiple pathways to learning, and designing and implementing
effective formative and summative assessment tools.
In working with schools attempting to implement
effective formative assessment, the author and his colleagues have learned that the necessary changes in
classroom practice, although often apparently quite modest, are actually difficult to achieve.
She is the author or coauthor of several books and many articles on
classroom assessment, including ASCD's How to Give
Effective Feedback to Your Students, How to Assess Higher - Order Thinking Skills in Your
Classroom, and How to Create and Use Rubrics for
Formative Assessment and Grading.
Effective use of
classroom assessment for learning (
formative assessment) has a significant, positive impact on what students learn.
As a result of the extensive work that Dylan Wiliam has done with teachers and administrators over the past decade on
classroom formative assessment, he suggests that five key components are essential for
effective professional development:
In fact, the
effective practice of
classroom formative assessment improves instruction and learning in several specific ways:
She has spent more than 20 years studying and writing about
classroom assessment practices and has authored a number of ASCD publications, including How to Create and Use Rubrics for
Formative Assessment and Grading, How to Give
Effective Feedback to Your Students, and How to Design Questions and Tasks to Assess Student Thinking.
Description: In this series of professional development sessions, participants will build background knowledge on creating and using
effective formative and summative assessments practices in their
classroom.
Most
classrooms today are mixed - ability environments; by helping teachers to differentiate instruction and providing
formative assessments for the collection of real - time feedback to inform teaching, blended learning is giving educators an
effective and efficient way to get every student on track.
The
Formative Assessment through
Effective Questioning & Discussion micro-credential program is designed to enable teachers to incorporate effective, robust questioning in the c
Effective Questioning & Discussion micro-credential program is designed to enable teachers to incorporate
effective, robust questioning in the c
effective, robust questioning in the
classroom.
So, how do teachers best undertake learning about and adopting the new roles inherent in implementing
effective formative assessment practices in their
classrooms?
In response to educator demand for a more
effective way to integrate the essential components of high - quality
classroom practice, MyTeachingStrategies ™ is an online platform that provides a single entry point for educators to streamline workflow by linking high quality curriculum,
formative assessment, professional development and family engagement in a seamless, interconnected way to better support daily instructional practice.