Archive for July, 2009

Q&A

Thursday, July 30th, 2009

As promised, here are my answers to the questions asked at the latest round of classroom formative assessment training.  Don’t like the answer?  Have more to add?  Please comment!

This was fun.  What other questions do you have for me?
Where are we in the implementation of this model?  What tools are available to promote this to [...]

Classroom Formative Assessment, continued…

Friday, July 24th, 2009

As regular readers of this blog already know, we offered four days of classroom formative assessment training to teams from 27J schools last spring.  We offered each session twice, and trained something like 140 people.  I want to keep you up to date on what has happened since then, and what will happen next.
Professional Development [...]

AVID and the Seven Strategies

Friday, July 24th, 2009

I’ve talked a lot about the relationship between AVID and classroom formative assessment.  Here’s work done by the AVID coordinators a few weeks ago making the connection between AVID strategies and the seven strategies of assessment for learning.
AVID and the Seven Strategies
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27J Instructional Model

Friday, July 24th, 2009

For those of you who haven’t heard me give this presentation…  If you like, you can download the presentation in order to read the notes that are attached to the slides (use the menu button).  This is a way cool tool…
27J Instructional Model
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ELT Revision

Friday, July 10th, 2009

The work on ELT revision proceeds under Kevin’s capable management.  He scrapped the website I set up as being inadequate for our needs, so please check out the new website.  And please publicize it to others in your personal learning network.  We want people to know what’s going on, and to provide feedback.  I will [...]