This excerpt from The Five Practices in Practice demonstrates strategies to anticipate student responses in problem solving, including planning to respond to students using assessing and advancing questions, and preparing to notice key aspects of students’ thinking in the midst of instruction.
Douglas Fisher and Nancy Frey focus on the teacher and student materials they developed to teach students how to take increased responsibility for their learning, concluding their series on Developing Assessment-Capable, Visible Learners.
Discover from Laura Greenstein practical easy ways to measure students' thinking, action, and living skills.
Whether you’re a novice or an expert kidwatcher, there are 3 moves you can make to ramp up your observation skills—then take what you observe to make decisions based on who your kids are as full humans. Read more on these 3 moves in Julie Wright's blog on Corwin Connect, based on her book, What Are You Grouping For?.
Learn about asset-based perspective and how to use it to reframe your thinking to promote student growth.
Explore with Jim Burke the ways educators can prepare students for Common Core Assessments without undermining daily instruction.
Douglas Fisher, Nancy Frey, and John Almarode, authors of PLC+, discuss how they place student learning, effective teaching, and a focus on equity at the heart of what we all strive to accomplish. Learn how PLC+ provides a framework for the planning and implementation of student learning, teacher professional learning, and cycles of assessment and reflection that direct next steps.
Explore with Joe Crawford, author of Aligning Your Curriculum to the Common Core State Standards, tools for mapping CCSS to curriculum, instruction, and assessment and methods to facilitate learning among all students.
In this webinar, Julie Wright and Barry Hoonan, authors of What Are You Grouping For?, walk you through five teacher moves for growing students’ reading muscles through small-group learning experiences: kidwatching, pivoting, assessing, curating, and planning.
Use this checklist from Teaching Literacy in the Visible Learning Classroom, Grades K-5, to assess your young students’ early understanding of the concepts of print.
This Hinge Question Implementation Tool from The Formative 5 helps you to organize your thoughts around a single hinge question in order to better assess your students' progress and define next steps for their continued learning.
This webinar will explore best practices around feedback and how it can best be utilized to impact student learning. Participants will learns do's and don'ts of effective feedback; how feedback can develop assessment capable learners; and tools for using feedback as part of teaching and learning.