Assessment for Learning: A Blueprint for Action--Now available on CD
Audio Conference for Superintendents, Principals, Curriculum Directors and all interested educators
SNAPSHOT: Teachers often complain that assessments interfere with learning. A growing emphasis in education today, especially with the focus on Response to Intervention, is to harness the power of assessments to advance learning rather than just to police it. In an Assessment for Learning approach, curriculum, instruction and assessment are closely interconnected and assessment becomes an integral part of the teaching and learning process. Beverly Falk, author of The Heart of the Matter: Using Standards and Assessments to Learn, and professor at the City College of the City University of New York, will detail the principles and characteristics of an Assessment for Learning system and will provide a blueprint for implementing this approach at both the school and classroom level. YOU'RE INVITED: Learn the 5-step process for bringing assessment for learning to your school and district by ordering the 90-minute audioconference on CD. With your CD, Assessment for Learning: A Blueprint for Action get: - 37-page handout
- Supplement "Looking at Student Work"
- Bibliography
- Links to audio and conference materials that you can email to your staff.
HOW IT WORKS: As soon as you place your order, we will send your CD and email you links to the audioconference and conference materials so that you can immediately listen to the conference. This audio conference offers an opportunity for inexpensive professional development. Distribute the CD and or links to the audio and materials with all of your staff so they, too, can listen and learn at a time that is most convenient to them.
CONFERENCE TOPICS: Beverly Falk, recently selected to be a Fellow of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, will discuss: Ø collecting multiple forms of evidence of student progress over time; Ø using different kinds of tests to assess different kinds of knowledge; Ø developing a standards-based performance assessment system for learning; Ø the role of authentic learning;Ø formative assessments; Ø implementing Assessment for Learning at both the school level and classroom level; and Ø examples from several cities, states and countries Call 207-632-1954 to order by phone or speak to a service representative.Professor Falk also will examine: Ø how to evaluate student work in an assessment for learning environment; Ø technical issues of assessment design Ø determining what and how to teach. | SIGN-UP BONUS
FREE WHEN YOU REGISTER: Special Report Assessment for Learning: 12 recent studies on formative assessment and aligning assessments to standards
| WHO'S IT FOR? Superintendents, assistant superintendents, principals, assistant principals, curriculum directors, teachers, education consultants and other education leaders. ABOUT THE SPEAKER: Beverly Falk is professor and head of the Graduate Programs in Early Childhood Education at the School of Education, The City College of the City University of New York. Dr. Falk has worked as a teacher, administrator, researcher and consultant at the school, district, state and national level.. She was recently selected to be a Fellow of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. Ms. Falk's numerous publications and books include: The Power of Questions: A Guide to Teacher and Student Research; The Heart of the Matter: Using Standards and Assessments to Learn; A Teacher's Guide to Standardized Testing: Knowledge is Power (co-author); and Authentic Assessment in Action (co-author.) For the research journal Educational Assessment, Dr. Falk recently co-authored the article, "Keeping the Focus on the Child: Supporting and Reporting on Teaching and Learning With a Classroom-based Performance Assessment System." She will discuss her experience with New York's classroom-based formative assessments at the audioconference. Call 1-207-632-1954 to order by phone or speak to a customer service representative.
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