Monday, September 23, 2013

Formative Assessment Articles

First of all, what an amazing Professional Development Day today!  The Pro. D. Committee did a wonderful job connecting our learning from the summer to a wonderful, meaningful day today.  Thanks, Committee!  The discussions that were had at all the tables and during the curricular sessions were quite outstanding. They were insightful, meaningful, personal, and had us all thinking.  It was really nice to see each of us take risks in our own learning today and share our struggles and our questions with each other.  We have amazing educators in our building who do wonderful things in their rooms, we definitely need to be taking advantage of that!  Each and every one of you have something great to offer!  That's what makes Bear Creek such a wonderful place to be!

During the video we watching this morning comparing Formative (assessment for learning) and Summative (assessment of learning) assessment, an article entitled, Inside the Black Box, was mentioned.  Many of you mentioned that you'd like to read this article, so I am including it below:



In addition, I found another, more recent article, Working Inside the Black Box, which I have also included:



If you have comments or anything you'd like to discuss, you can pose a question, make a comment, or post your favourite quote in the comments below (if you are so inclined).

Enjoy!

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