Common Formative Assessment: A Toolkit for Professional Learning Communities at Work

Monitor and enhance your students' learning with Common Formative Assessment. You'll get everything you need to know to create common formative assessments and incorporate them into the practices of your professional learning community.

Learn how to design, use, and respond to common formative assessments in order to become more knowledgeable about your own standards, more assessment literate, and more informed on how to develop strategies to help all students learn. And with accessible tools and templates for teams to adjust to their own needs, this is a process that will be easy to facilitate and easy to maintain.

Benefits

* Includes strategies for how to identify and unwrap power standards to use as the basis for learning targets and common formative assessments

* Provides protocols and reproducibles to facilitate the formative assessment process

* Offers tools to create pacing guides and to design units for conducting and responding to assessments

* Highlights ideas on how to encourage students to become actively involved in the assessment process