In this excerpt from Creating a Self-Directed Learning Environment, the author explains two types of assessments and how they see each test question as a potential way of gauging not whether a student has learned a standard at an expected level of proficiency and to identify the next step of that skill’s development.
In this module from The Teacher Clarity Playbook, Grades K-12, the authors discuss summative assessment and provide six steps to developing sound summative assessments that effectively mesasure the standard.
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This lesson helps your students evaluate their performance by encouraging them to take time to stop and evaluate what may have caused the error and identify what learning is needed to close the gap.
Excerpted from Thinking Through Project-Based Learning, this list of over 75 project ideas—complete with guiding questions and grade ranges—is a great resource for getting started. (K-12)
Students extend their understanding of place value by bundling tens with this lesson from The Common Core Mathematics Companion, K-2. (Elementary)
Students apply and extend previous understanding of multiplication and division to multiply and divide fractions using this lesson from The Common Core Mathematics Companion, 3-5. (Elementary)
Using this lesson from The Common Core Mathematics Companion, 6-8, students analyze proportional relationships and use them to solve real-world and mathematical problems (Secondary).
Learn how to use this Matrix featured in Realizing Rigor to refine strategies and select student actions. (Secondary)
Using Audrey & Bruce Wood's book Ten Little Fish, students learn to count backward from 10 by 1s, a precursor for subtraction. This lesson appears in Numbers & Stories. (Elementary)
In this chapter from Science Curriculum Topic Study, the authors make clear the appropriate uses and applications of Curriculum Topic Study (CTS) and help the reader to identify the sections that apply to their own circumstances.