Select from one of three strands for focused, collaborative work during the Institute! Essential questions that will drive work in the various strands include:
Using Formative and Summative Assessments to Improve Teaching:
- What are some of the defining characteristics of successful formative assessments?
- What information can formative assessment give students in order for them to take ownership of their learning?
- What technology tools assist the creation, collection, and evaluation of formative assessment?
- How does one evaluate data?
- How does one design assessments that give teachers the information they need to know?
Assessment of Teachers:
- How does one deal with difficult conversations?
- What are the ways to motivate a difficult teacher?
- How do we promote teacher reflection?
- How do teacher evaluation plans become a high leverage professional development opportunity?
- How do you adapt your evaluation in the context of the content or special area teachers?
- How do you translate observation into text?
Assessment of Curricular Programs:
- How does one know if a particular program is effective?
- How does one track data to evaluate these programs?
- What measures already exist to evaluate curricular programs?
- To what extent does the evaluation of these programs bring about change and/or improvement of the programs?