Assessing Students is essential on some level, but it doesn't have to mean adding hours and hours of grading essays, homework and more! Come discuss strategies which open up the world Assessment and inspire Students to love the learning process!
Do you ever feel like all you do is grade student work, but sometimes you are not sure how the students are actually doing? As students progress through their K-12 experience, the stress and intensity of grading practices becomes more and more impactful on student and teacher mental health, ultimately preventing the students from reaching their full potential while leaving teachers frustrated. Whether it be the sheer quantity of assignments, the imbalance of weighted grading systems, or the inconsistency of targeted feedback to students...our current assessment & grading practices are broken. In addition, with advances in technology, teachers, schools and districts have more opportunities to use real-time data than ever before to drive learning & instruction which we have yet to be able to leverage effectively. Let's look at some of these issues while also having an honest discussion about where we go from here, including a look at strategies and conversations you can bring back to your school to improve assessment and grading, while also increasing learning outcomes and reducing stress for you and your students.
Woven throughout this presentation, we would also love to have a conversation with you about grading practices, strategies, and philosophies and learn from each other about best practices in assessing Students across a variety of grade levels and content areas. While this session may have demos of tools such as Nearpod, Forms, Flipgrid and others, we want to make sure to connect to the Why behind what we do as Teachers, not just the What.
School leaders and classroom teachers alike could benefit from sharing their insight into the importance of assessment, the impact of various types of assessments used in the classroom. and the influence grading those assessments has on learning. Not to mention, how we factor in online and blended learning models into the mix will also play a role in shaping our assessment and grading strategies and practices. We look forward to a lively discussion around these ideas and so much more.