Assessment Mini-seriesSix Key Strategies

Mini-Series Goal

To work together to enhance and deepen their understanding of powerful assessment practices so teachers work less and students learn more.

Assessment OF Learning• It is intended to certify learning and report

to parents and students about students’ progress in school, usually by reporting relative position compared to other students.

Assessment FOR Learning• It is the process of seeking and

interpreting evidence for use by learners and their teachers, to identify where the learners are in their learning, where they need to go, and how best to get them there.

Access Prior KnowledgeThe greater the access to your prior knowledge, the more easily you can learn new information.

Access Prior Knowledge• On your own for a minute, consider this:

What do you think are the KEY strategies for effective “assessment for learning”?

Talk about itLearning FactTalking triggers new ideas & connections. Through it we grow intelligence.

• Talk at your table to notice similarities and differences in your thinking

As you watch…• Put a CHECK beside the strategy and

ideas that make sense to you.• Put a QUESTION MARK beside the

strategy that wonder about.• Put an X beside the strategy you don’t

understand or don’t agree with.

• Assessment Clip: available to SD68 Learning Lead teachers at http://workingtogether.pbworks.com/Minis

An Invitation• Read the article by Dylan Wiliam at http://

workingtogether.pbworks.com/Minis• Consider ONE thing you will pay attention

to in your assessment practices this month.

• Share your thinking with us at the next meeting.