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The Power of Formative Assessments to Transform Teaching and Learning
Incorporate Assessment Strategies Throughout Your Lessons
- Grades: PreK–K, 1–2, 3–5, 6–8, 9–12
Tired of waiting for end-of-course assessments to evaluate what students have not learned? Interested in using assessments to guide the learning process? Formative assessments are designed to help improve teaching and learning. This collection of unit plans and articles will help you understand how to improve your instruction through timely feedback that can really make a difference to students. Our teacher advisers' lesson plans and strategies show how you can use movie, food and book reviews, presidential vocabulary or setting up class rules to enhance student learning in the classroom.
Included Here:
- Articles (1)
- Unit Plans (4)
Articles
Learning From Formative Assessment
A trusting classroom environment can help you build an open forum for formative assessment. The classroom has to be a place where your students' unique characteristics and skills are nurtured, where it is safe to ask questions, where constructive criticism is taught, and where students and teachers learn from one another.
Unit Plans
Exploring the Genre of Review Writing
Presidential Election Vocabulary
Build vocabulary word comprehension skills as well as word-learning strategies related to the upcoming presidential election.
Formative Assessments That Motivate Underperforming Teens
Using formative assessments to frame instruction and provide frequent feedback to teens and adolescents is one of most effective ways to motivate even the most unmotivated student.
Back-to-School: Our First Six Weeks
The beginning of the school year is the ideal time to discuss the term "community" and what it means to be a responsible citizen.
- Subjects:Assessment, Curriculum Development
