Module Overview

  • 1

    Introduction

    • Map of Tools & Strategies

    • 📽️ A Quick Tour of Your Suite

    • 📽️ INTRODUCTION: Research Overview & Principles

    • Three Principles of Effective Formative Assessment
  • 2

    Chapter 1A | Tools for Inviting Students into the Process

    • Overview of Tools

    • 🔨 TOOL TUTORIAL: Student-Friendly Learning Targets + PDR

    • KEY CONTENT CUES for Student-Friendly Learning Targets + PDR

    • PD RESOURCE: How to Reach a Learning GOAL (Classroom Poster)

    • 🔨 TOOL TUTORIAL: Vocabulary Knowledge Rating (VKR)

    • KEY CONTENT CUES for Vocabulary Knowledge Rating (VKR)

    • PD RESOURCE: Vocabulary Knowledge Rating (Student Organizer)

    • 📽️ADVANCED PLAYBOOK | Developing Assessment-Capable Students

    • KEY CONTENT CUES for Advanced Playbook
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    Chapter 1B | Tools for Making Learning Visible

    • Overview of Tools

    • 🔨 TOOL TUTORIAL: Clear or Cloudy?

    • KEY CONTENT CUES for Clear or Cloudy?

    • 🔨 TOOL TUTORIAL: Because

    • KEY CONTENT CUES for Because

    • PD RESOURCE: Because (Classroom Poster)

    • 🔨 TOOL TUTORIAL: Questioning in Style

    • KEY CONTENT CUES for Questioning in Style

    • PD RESOURCE: Question Stem Menu

    • PD RESOURCE: Questioning in Style (Planning Form)

    • PD RESOURCE: Questioning in Style Responses (Student Organizer)

    • PD RESOURCE: How to Flex Your Mental Muscles (Classroom Poster)

    • 🔨 TOOL TUTORIAL: The Five Cs of In-Lesson Feedback

    • KEY CONTENT CUES for The Five Cs

    • PD RESOURCE: The Five Cs in Action (Classroom Video)
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    Chapter 1C | Tools for Helping Students Take Control Over Their Own Learning

    • Overview of Tools

    • 🔨 TOOL TUTORIAL: Stop, Slow, Go!

    • KEY CONTENT CUES for Stop, Slow, Go!

    • 🔨 TOOL TUTORIAL: Graduated Difficulty

    • KEY CONTENT CUES for Graduated Difficulty

    • 🔨 TOOL TUTORIAL: Effort Tracker

    • KEY CONTENT CUES for Effort Tracker

    • PD RESOURCE: Effort Tracker Form (Student Organizer)

    • 🔨 TOOL TUTORIAL: Personal Best

    • KEY CONTENT CUES for Personal Best

    • PD RESOURCE: Reflecting on My Personal Bests (Student Organizer)
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    Chapter 2 | Planning Resources

    • Overview

    • REVIEW: Moving to the Classroom

    • Tool & Strategy Planner (fillable form)

    • Troubleshooting Guide (fillable form)
  • 6

    Chapter 3 | Reflection

    • Overview

    • ORGANIZER: Reflecting on My Practice (Fillable)

    • SAMPLE: Reflecting on My Practice

  • 7

    Chapter 4 | Learning from Student Work

    • Overview

    • ORGANIZER: Learning from Student Work (Fillable)
  • 8

    Chapter 5 | Building a Formative Assessment Design

    • Overview

    • ORGANIZER: Comprehensive Planning Guide