Common Formative Assessment: A Toolkit for Professional Learning Communities at Work (How Teams Can Use Assessment Data Effectively and Efficiently) (Solutions)
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With foreword by Richard and Rebecca DuFour Teams that engage in designing, using, and responding to common formative assessments are more knowledgeable about their own standards, more assessment literate, and able to develop more strategies for helping all students learn. In this conversational guide, the authors offer tools, templates, and protocols to incorporate common formative assessments into the practices of a PLC to monitor and enhance student learning. With Common Formative Assessment, monitor and enhance your students learning. You ll get everything you need to know to create common formative assessments and incorporate them into the practices of your professional learning community. With accessible tools and templates for teams to adjust to their own needs, this is a process that will be easy to facilitate and easy to maintain. Benefits Includes strategies for how to identify and unwrap power standards to use as the basis for learning targets and common formative assessments. Provides protocols and reproducibles to facilitate the formative assessment process. Offers tools to create pacing guides and to design units for conducting and responding to assessments. Highlights ideas on how to encourage students to become actively involved in the assessment process. Contents: 1. Getting Started as a Collaborative Team 2. Setting the Stage for Common Formative Assessments 3. Power Standards The Essential Outcomes 4. The Unwrapping Process Achieving Collective Clarity on Learning Targets 5. Designing Quality Common Formative Assessments 6. The Big Picture Pacing Guides and Unit Design 7. Now What? Using Data to Make a Difference 8. Getting the Most Bang for Your Assessment Buck Involving Students 9. Sustaining the Work Appendix Tools for Teams Review: Exactly as described - Great seller. Book was exactly as described. Review: Five Stars - Great Product!
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| Customer Reviews | 4.7 out of 5 stars 52 Reviews |
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Exactly as described
Great seller. Book was exactly as described.
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Five Stars
Great Product!
K**E
Easy read with a great deal of info
Easy read that helps you to get down to what a true PLC looks like, how to break down standards, and how to work as a team
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Several years ago, I stumbled across this quote from educational researcher John Hattie in a Bob Marzano book: "The most powerful single modification that enhances achievement is feedback. The simplest prescription for improving education must be 'dollops of feedback.'" (As quoted in Marzano, 2003, p. 37) It's a GREAT point, isn't it? And it resonates with everything that we know about growing learners. Feedback matters. But providing "dollops of feedback" is a HECK of a lot harder than it sounds when you are responsible for 125 students who are assigned to classes of 30+ and you have 60 minutes of planning on a good day. Under those conditions, timely, direct feedback on performance becomes nearly impossible. That's what makes Common Formative Assessment by Kim Bailey and Chris Jakicic such an important read. The authors take a difficult task and show teachers how to make it a manageable part of their everyday work. If you are a teacher, pick this up and work through it with your learning team. You'll have a better sense for just what responsible formative assessment is supposed to look like AND some practical strategies for incorporating it into your practice without killing yourself. If you are a principal, share this with your entire faculty. Formative assessment matters -- but teachers have to be convinced that it's doable. That's exactly what Bailey and Jakicic do in this short, approachable text.
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A great beginning for PLCs
With more and more teachers moving to formative assessment, this book is a valuable asset. While one of the first chapters seemed a bit redundant because it dealt with explaining formative assessment, I can understand why it was included to help those who may not know much about it. The ideas presented in the book are clearly laid out with steps and even black line masters to use. The best part is that it focuses on educators collaborating to develop the assessment, asking questions together to get a deeper understanding. I would highly recommend this book to educators, especially PLCs.
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Five Stars
Combines theory and practice in a step by step fashion; structures the alignment needed for success.
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