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Formative Assessment Digital Modules Series

Overview:

Embedding Formative Assessment -
There is now a large and growing evidence base that helping teachers develop their use of minute-to-minute and day-by-day assessment is one of, if not the most powerful ways to improve student learning. However, adopting formative assessment, or assessment for learning as it is sometimes called, involves far more than adding a few “quick fixes” to teachers’ classroom repertoires. It involves a fundamental shift in focus, from what the teacher is putting in to the process to what the students are getting out of it. In this series of five 90-minute online workshops, participants will learn:

Why formative assessment needs to be the priority for every school;
What formative assessment is (and isn't);
Practical techniques for implementing formative assessment; and
How to sustain the development of formative assessment with teacher learning communities.

Eliciting Evidence - The Starting Point for Good Feedback

Questioning, and a range of related techniques for eliciting evidence about student achievement, is a staple in classrooms all over the world, but in most classrooms, the greater part of the “intellectual heavy lifting” is performed by the teacher, with students delegated to a supporting role, or even, in many cases, “absent without leave.” In this session, participants will learn about a range of classroom techniques to improve questioning, including how to create, and capitalize upon, more “teachable moments” and the defining characteristics of effective diagnostic questions.

DYLAN WILIAM

Dylan Wiliam is one of the world's leading authorities on the ways that assessment can be used to improve student learning and has authored or co-authored over 300 articles, books, and book chapters on education. After 7 years teaching English, mathematics and science in urban secondary schools in London, he joined Chelsea College, University of London, which later merged with King's College London. During his time at King's College London, he ran the mathematics teacher education programme, co-ordinated a large scale testing programme, served for five years as Dean of the School of Education and from 2001 to 2003, was Assistant Principal of the College. In 2003 he moved to the United States, to take up the post of Senior Research Director at the Educational Testing Service in Princeton, New Jersey, and in 2006 returned to the UK as Deputy Director of the Institute of Education, University of London. Since 2010 he has worked as an independent consultant, advising schools, districts, and regional and national governments on how education can be improved, but he retains his link with the University of London as Emeritus Professor of Educational Assessment.

INVESTMENT

USD 75 Per Module
Five Modules USD 350

This is a series of 5 Digital Modules on Formative Assessment. You can choose to do all 5 modules for a Discounted rate of USD 350 and get a Certificate of Micro Learning for 8 Professional Development hours or choose to do standalone modules and get a Certificate of Participation for 90 minutes.

Upcoming Modules

FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT: WHAT IT IS AND WHAT IT ISN’T—WHEN IT WORKS AND WHEN IT DOESN’T

- By Dylan Wiliam

3rd - 7th October 2020