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Formative Assessment: Checking for Understanding

Designed to Help Educators Save Time and Focus Learning
Presenter: Mary Jean Fawcett

This Institute is designed to examine current classroom assessment strategies used to check students’ prior knowledge before beginning instruction and to check what they are really learning. Bring units and/or lesson assessments you are currently using or have used. See how to incorporate the use of formative assessment strategies to guide your instruction and improve student learning. Topics include:

  • Why do This?
  • Oral Assessments
  • Questioning
  • Writing
  • Projects & Perfection
  • Tests
  • Common Assessments
  • Consumer Scoring

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mary jean fawcett pictureMary Jean Fawcett is Co-Administrator in Residence for NELMS and an educator with 36 years of middle level experience, 19 years teaching middle grades and 17 years as a middle level assistant and supervising principal.

 

 

 

 

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