This lesson from the Teacher's Guide included with Becoming an Assessment-Capable Visible Learner, Grades 6-12, Level 1: Classroom Pack is set up to help you support your students in asking the right questions to get the feedback that they need.
Engagement has become a buzz word in education. Teachers face pressure to keep their students active, but bustle and busyness are not the same as engagement. Worksheets and on-line tutorials may keep learners occupied, but not necessarily engaged. Read this blog from Laura Greenstein, author of Restorative Assessment, for a better understanding of what engagement truly is and how you can boost engagement in your classroom.
Informed by the ideas of 41 educators all over the world who contributed to the fourth edition of How to Grade for Learning, author Ken O'Connor focuses on the four most critical challenges when implementing Standards-Based Grading and Learning in schools and districts and in the classroom.
"I am deeply troubled that many state laws continue to require consideration of change in annual accountability test score as an indicator of student growth for teacher evaluation. This is a patently indefensible policy for a variety of reasons..." Read the full blog from Rick Stiggins, author of Defensible Teacher Evaluation.
What if the question were more important than the answer? Download this poster to learn how to engage all students in self-assessment as a formative assessment practice that takes learning deeper with the 6Ps of Quality Questioning.
In this video, you'll learn the key practices of the 6Ps Framework for Quality Questioning and how to apply them in your classroom effectively.
In this excerpt from Creating a Self-Directed Learning Environment, the author explains two types of assessments and how they see each test question as a potential way of gauging not whether a student has learned a standard at an expected level of proficiency and to identify the next step of that skill’s development.
In this letter from The Assessment Playbook for Distance and Blended Learning, the authors provides insight on the current state of education.
Assessment Cookie 7 (a piece of information that sticks with you) from The Assessment Playbook for Distance and Blended Learning explores assessment tasks that work for distance learning.
In this excerpt from The Assessment Playbook for Distance and Blended Learning, the authors provide tools for assessing a students current level of understanding.
Please enjoy this complimentary excerpt on The Purpose of this Playbook. You’ll discover an overview of the Playbook modules and why this work is essential to your PLC+s.
In this Leaders Coaching Leaders podcast episode, author Tom Guskey and Peter DeWitt discuss the downfalls of percentage grading, how grading is sometimes used as a punishment, and Tom's recommendations for better grading practices.