Journey Summary
This session will lead you down a path of deep exploration of assessment. You will examine how to use assessments effectively to support learning and growth in your classroom. You will finalize the summative and formative assessment in the inquiry-based activity you have planned for your learners.
Curriculum-framing Questions
Essential Question
- What is the value in assessment?
Unit Questions
- What do you value and are you assessing it?
- How might summative assessments provide data to inform instructional practice?
- How might scoring guides provide students with scaffolding for products and/or performances?
- How might assessment data and feedback support student growth?
Content Questions
- What are the purposes of assessment?
- What is assessment for learning?
- How might an assessment timeline be used to plan for assessment?
- What does high-quality feedback look like and sound like?
Introduction
Exploring how to plan for and use both formative and summative assessments to support learner growth becomes elemental in creating a fully integrated, multi-standard unit. Providing students with high-quality feedback supports their learning and provides the structure and scaffolding needed to assist in evaluating and enhancing lessons and activities, thus ensuring that we will support student learning and growth.
Theory Behind Practice
All eMINTS materials are grounded in research-based best practices in K-12 education.
Digging Deeper
Agenda
- Opener: 3D Model
- Assessment FOR Learning
- Providing Feedback
- Assessing What You Value
- Backward Design
- Closer: Synectics
Classroom Visit w/Students
Have your facilitator assist you in implementing formative assessments and support you in providing high-quality feedback to students.
Classroom Visit w/out Students
During a class visit without students, work with your facilitator to review or modify a pre-made lesson/activity to support student needs. In addition, engage in a reflective conversation over the use of assessment tools to continue improving current assessment practice.
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