Again, I'm wondering if it would be best to focus on professional development
about the formative assessment process in the first release of resources in the digital library.
Explore the rich bank of tools, templates, and videos that can enrich your knowledge
about the formative assessment process and support you as a FAME Coach.
Not exact matches
After the «professional development day» is over, how does a school or school district go
about the
process of moving teachers continuously in the direction of doing
formative assessment digitally and creating a culture that accepts and consistently implements this approach?
On Top of the News Grand Test Auto: The End of Testing Washington Monthly May / June 2012 Behind the Headline Future Schools Education Next Summer 2011 In a special issue of the Washington Monthly, Bill Tucker writes
about «stealth
assessment,» the use of
formative assessments built into the learning
process which allow teachers to keep -LSB-...]
The
process takes
about a week and I build in Mondays for melting snowballs discovered in my
formative assessments.
The reader will learn
about creating learning targets through
assessment, how to utilize
formative assessment for the whole learning
process, uncover myths
about differentiation and walk away with one of the most invaluable lesson we can all stand to learn - the importance of the learner's voice in the
process.
As we work with districts on establishing professional goal - setting
processes, we often hear from teachers and principals that they are unsure
about what kinds of
formative assessments of students» learning they should use to set and assess their professional goals related to instructional practice.
Accomplished
formative assessment teachers work fluently and automatically within the current instructional context to address students» immediate learning needs in real time — rapidly
processing evidence of student thinking and learning, automatically considering the learning targets, then making advantageous decisions
about the next steps of instruction to move learning forward, sometimes with a plan B or even C in mind.
In this view, the teacher functions as an educational diagnostician who — using
formative assessment techniques instead of a stethoscope — listens carefully to student thinking;
processes it against what he or she knows
about the subject at hand, how students learn, and the goals of a lesson.
Although educators have learned a lot
about good
formative assessment in individual classrooms, we wondered what might happen if a school took the
process schoolwide.
I wrote
about the importance of feedback in the
formative assessment process in an earlier post.
Now that we have had time using the program, we are working to improve our data chat
process, make adjustments to the
assessments as we learn more
about the standards, and work on using Unify to help with more frequent
formative assessments.
Formative assessment is the
process by which teachers gather data
about student learning in order to adjust instruction.
This webshop presents information
about the most common approaches used by co-teachers to share responsibility for instruction in a co-taught class, effective techniques for
formative and summative
assessment — with particular emphasis on creative
formative assessment, and recommendations for developing an effective and efficient co-planning
process.
«Easy to read and logically organized, this book can assist teams to deepen their knowledge of
assessment literacy, strengthen conversations
about using data, and guide them through the
process of developing quality common
formative assessments.»
We're not talking
about a «test»;
formative assessment practice is a planned
process used by teachers and students during instruction that provides in - the - moment feedback for adjusting ongoing teaching and learning to improve students» learning.