Approved Course for Accelerating Science: Open Access Professional Learning (OAPL). Eligible Massachusetts educators may take this course at no cost. Visit OAPL website to learn more.
OAPL funding has ended. New course cohorts will begin in September, dates to be determined.
PDPs: Participants earn a certificate of completion for 12 hours of professional development.
Course Description
This course will increase your capacity to implement formative assessments and use the resulting data to inform your instruction. You will explore formative assessment delivery options that facilitate immediate, targeted, actionable feedback to students. Each module will include a variety of materials that increase your knowledge of the theory and practice of formative assessments. You will dig into the why, what, and how of formative assessment and learn how it leads to increased student engagement and deeper learning for all students. Throughout the course, there will be multiple opportunities for all teachers from K-12 to explore and create a variety of formative assessment types.
This hybrid course runs for 3 weeks with rolling enrollment. Designed for collaborative district-based and school-based cohorts.
Time Commitment:
- 3 hours/week asynchronous work
- Two 1 hour community of practice meetings
Move at your own pace.
Attend weekly meetings for collaboration and feedback.
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