As schools shift their practices to align with the Common Core learning standards, a sharper focus on the role of classroom assessment has emerged. Although this support will include information about California’s new statewide assessments, it will primarily address local, teacher, and school/district-driven assessments. Participants will experience a variety of formative assessment “scenarios” from various content areas in order to better understand how formative assessment can and must be an integral part of our educational programs.
During this two-day interactive training (Oct 13 & Nov 13, 2017), participants will:• Develop an understanding of the formative assessment process.• Define the attributes of the formative assessment process (clarifyinglearning, eliciting evidence, interpreting evidence, and acting on evidence) . ..• Develop an understanding of the fundamentals of learning includingparticipating and contributing, making meaning, and managing learning.• Develop an understanding of the classroom culture that supports formativeassessment practices including teacher-student and student-studentfeedback, and peer and self-assessment.• Connect formative assessment to lesson design.• Connect formative assessment to California Standards and the buildingblocks of learning (lesson progressions).
