Program helps teachers monitor student learning as it happens
How often have you heard Grade 4 students say things like this about classroom tests?
- "I can explore my answer without being worried about it."
- "I am not afraid to raise my hand anymore..."
- "If I never know what I got wrong, I will never learn the right way to do it."
These are definitely not the kinds of reactions to tests that you would expect from primary students. On the other hand, these are students whose teachers are using an innovative approach to assessment - one that differs dramatically from the paradigm familiar to generations of teachers and students.
The approach is known as assessment for learning and it's the basis of the ETS Keeping Learning on Track professional development program (KLT). Where teachers traditionally have relied on summative, end-of-unit or end-of-term tests that can only measure past learning, KLT's strategies are designed to help teachers monitor student learning as it happens.
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Become a Keeping Learning on Track
leader at workshop in Toronto
You can become a leader for Keeping Learning on Track (KLT) by attending our three-day workshop in Toronto in December.
KLT is an interactive professional development program that supports teachers to adopt day-to-day assessment for learning strategies that have been shown by research to powerfully increase student learning.
The program is centred around one big idea: Students and teachers using evidence of learning to adapt teaching and learning to meet learning needs minute-to-minute and day-to-day.
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