Assessment Academy

Topic outline

• Select topic General

  General

  

  Welcome to the BPS Teaching & Learning Academy!

  These workshops were collaboratively designed by teachers at BPS in an effort to become better teachers and learners. We hope you find them useful...

  
  

  
  

  Participants will INNOVATE their formative assessment practice by exploring:

  • Ways to improve Feedback
  • Student Self-Assessment and Metacognition
  • SAMR and Formative Assessment
  • Formative Assessment for Application and Extension

   

  • Select activity ENTRANCE TICKET: Academy Goal Tracker - START HERE!

    

    ENTRANCE TICKET: Academy Goal Tracker - START HERE! Assignment

    Completion

    Students must

    

    Make a submission
  • Select activity Innovating Assessment - Implementation Evidence

    

    Innovating Assessment - Implementation Evidence Assignment

    Completion

    Students must

    

    Make a submission
  • Select activity News forum

    

    News forum
  • Select activity Parking Lot forum

    

    Parking Lot forum

    An open forum for chatting about anything you want to -> ask a question, start a thread for your team to communicate, RANT! (caps lock optional), whatever...
  • Select activity Participant ORIENTATION

    

    Participant ORIENTATION Book

    Completion

    Students must

    

    View
• Select topic Critical Friends Session Items

  Critical Friends Session Items
  URL: 1 Assignments: 2 Forum: 1
• Select topic Spark Session Items

  Spark Session Items
  Assignment: 1 Page: 1
• Select topic Resources

  Resources

  Database of Formative Assessments Academy Registration Website Guiding Teaching and Learning Shared Collections  Moodle Resources
• Select topic WORKSHOP: Improving Feedback Practices

  WORKSHOP: Improving Feedback Practices

  

  Participants will INNOVATE their feedback practices by:

  • Discovering the power of feedback
  • Exploring types of feedback used for formative assessment
  • Evaluating formative assessments for feedback potential
  • Defining the criteria for effective feedback

  Text and media area: 1 Pages: 5 Group choices: 2 Forums: 4 Assignment: 1 Feedback: 1 URL: 1 Quiz: 1
• Select topic WORKSHOP: Application & Extension Assessment Practices

  WORKSHOP: Application & Extension Assessment Practices

  Participants will INNOVATE their formative assessment for application and extension by exploring answers to:

  • What situations/opportunities do I have to create to help students be successful at the application and extension level?
  • How can I design student activities that create opportunities for application level formative assessment?
  • How can I seamlessly incorporate formative assessment into my lesson plans?
  • How can I create clear yet flexible assessment tools?

  Text and media area: 1 Group choice: 1 URLs: 2 Assignments: 3 Feedback: 1
• Select topic WORKSHOP: Student Self-Assessment and Metacognition

  WORKSHOP: Student Self-Assessment and Metacognition

  

  Participants will INNOVATE their Metacognition practices by:

  • Developing an understanding of metacognition and how it is important to students
  • Embedding steps and strategies within lesson plans to engage students in metacognitive activities
  • Exploring, modifying, and designing tools to facilitate student self-assessment & metacognition

  Text and media area: 1 Group choice: 1 Quiz: 1 Assignments: 2 Forum: 1 Page: 1 Feedback: 1 URL: 1
• Select topic WORKSHOP: SAMR & Formative Assessment

  WORKSHOP: SAMR & Formative Assessment

  Participants will INNOVATE their use of technology in Formative Assessment by:

  • Exploring the SAMR model for Technology Integration
  • Applying the SAMR model to key elements of formative assessment
  • Developing and embedding strategies for using technology to innovate formative assessment practices

  Text and media areas: 2 Group choice: 1 Pages: 2 Assignments: 2 Feedback: 1 Quizzes: 7 URL: 1 Forum: 1