In-Person and Virtual Synchronous Seminars
Assessments to Identify Gaps - Participants will discuss uses of formative assessments to identify gaps and make adjustments that provide various access points for students (1 hour)
Assessments to Inform, Pace, and Guide - Participants discuss the use of diagnostic, formative, and summative assessments to inform, plan, pace, and guide their instruction. (1 hour)
Designing and Differentiating Assessments - Participants will discuss providing multiple opportunities for students to showcase abilities and differentiating assessment methodologies. (1 hour)
Designing Assessment to Monitor Student Progress toward Instructional Goals - In this session, teachers will discuss how they assess learning experiences that they create or coordinate, tracking what students do and do not learn while evaluating the effectiveness of their instructional strategies. (1 hour)
Looking at Student Work - In this session, teachers will closely examine student work samples for patterns and trends among their assessment practice (1 hour)
Self-Assessment for Student Learning - This seminar engages participants in discussing and exploring ways to engage students in self-assessment to be reflective of their experiences and foster a sense of student agency. (1 hour)
Thinking Systematically about Student Practice - Monitoring student progress is not limited to formative/summative assessments, it is also observing students work in the classroom as they process an idea or concept while working toward understanding. These observations inform the accomplished teacher’s planning and preparation of assessments, as well as lesson structures. (1 hour)
Understanding English Language Learners - As a teacher, what can you do with students in your class who are learning English? How can you help them succeed? This seminar focuses on understanding the stages of verbal acquisition and identifying variables that influence the language acquisition process for ELLs. Strategies that have been shown to successfully engage ELLs are examined and instructional and assessment accommodations are demonstrated. (3 hour)
Understanding the Role of Formative Assessment – Participants will learn how to evaluate assessment items for depth of knowledge, classify questions to their level of rigor and write assessment questions for different levels of rigor. (3 hour)