Research shows that most students lose more than 2 months of math skills over the summer. TenMarks summer math programs for grades 3-high school are a great way to reverse the summer learning loss - 82% of students who used TenMarks increased their
This Forum Discussion began on 3/18/11 at the City of Salem Schools' Professional Development Day. Teachers who attended the session on The Heart of AFL discussed the core/key concepts of Assessment FOR Learning. They then worked together to create
Robert Marzano certainly leads the way in using research information and applying it to our classroom practive. His book Formative Assessment & Standards-Based Grading is a great resource for anyone interested in learing more about this subject. I pa
i am abid ali teacher/teacher educator in a middle/high school chitral pakistan. i am interested in AFL because of its importance and help both for learners as well as for teachers(facilitators). In my context usually summative assessment is exercise
Now that Salem teachers and administrators have focused on increasing the use of Assessment FOR Learning strategies in our classrooms over the past two school years, we now have developed a rubric that breaks down AFL into smaller components. The rub
Ok, all you administrators out there. Are teachers in your school or school system required to have a growth objective related to Assessment FOR Learning? If so, then this forum could be a nice way for administrators to help out those teachers - wh
TenMarks has launched a math practice and learning program for grades 3 - High School and as of today, it’s FREE for teachers to use in class or for their students to use at home.
The TenMarks approach gives students a variety of problems on ea
Could some one point me in the right direction to find the paper or research that speaks to the experiment where some teachers gave student work feedback, some students grades, and some students grades and feedback, and how the feedback only was the
I'm a HS ESL teacher and in grad school. I need some middle or high school teachers to fill out a quick (less than 5 mins!) survey for a class. It's about teacher burnout, and this would REALLY help me out!
For the 2010-2011 school year, teachers in the City of Salem Schools will be required to have a growth objective related to AFL. These AFL objectives will be teacher-created. In other words, there will not a top down division-wide one-size-fits-all
This Forum Discussion was started for Salem High School's September 3, 2009 inservice on AFL.
Last year our school spent an entire year looking at AFL, at what it means, at how it can be applied to our classrooms, and at what impact it will have on
What is an AFL practice/idea/strategy that you used successfully at the elementary level? Feel free to share multiple ideas. The more ideas shared here the more useful the forum will be.
It's only natural for one's understanding of a concept or idea to grow with time. It's very typical to begin with misconceptions and to then outgrow those as you begin to better understand the concept. This is very common when it comes to Assessment