Assessment

Great teachers reflect on their work to assess what has been successful and what has not. Successful teachers are steadily asking themselves and their [...]

In performance-driven classrooms, teachers constantly reflect on how well their students are learning. They collect and analyze information about student [...]

Effective Teacher GPA The Effective Teacher GPA is a great tool for teachers to use to help measure teaching effectiveness in the classroom. As a teacher, [...]

Why Give Feedback and Use Formative Assessment? When you provide feedback to your students in creative and fun ways, they are more likely to succeed.         [...]

Students Emotionally Experience Assessments. Recently, Who’s Engaged? author Dr. Janet Pilcher was interviewed on The Daily Brew, a show on [...]

In her book Who’s Engaged? Dr. Janet Pilcher writes, here is what we know. Students emotionally experience assessments (p. 35). What does this mean for [...]

Using Assessment Data in the Classroom. As teachers, we have so many tools at our disposal that it can become overwhelming to sort through all the items in [...]

As teachers and leaders we want to move our low performing students to middle- and high-performing and move middle-performers to high performers. To do this [...]

Recognize Student Strengths. Today’s Exercise asks teachers to reflect on whether they consistently recognize student strengths. Historically, teachers [...]

At a graduation I attended in Kentucky on Saturday morning when the principal asked all the kids “who are college and career ready” to please [...]