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Assessments should an authentic part of the teaching journey, helping educators understand where their students are and how to facilitate their growth. When teachers have to stop in the middle of their curriculum and switch to focus on something that feels separate from their lessons, it disrupts the flow of the classroom. Here's why aligning curriculum, assessments, and professional learning can better support teacher practice and student learning.

Assessments should be an integrated part of the learning experience that blends in authentically with what teachers are already doing. It shouldn’t be a compliance exercise, but rather a tool to help educators gauge exactly where students are in their learning journey and to inform how to help them excel.     Here's why curriculum, assessments, and professional learning need to be better aligned to truly serve teacher practice and student learning. 

Assessments should be an authentic part of the teaching journey, helping educators understand where their students are and how to facilitate their growth. Here's how aligning curriculum, assessments, and professional learning can better support teacher practice and student learning.

Good practices become effective practices when systems work in coherence with one another.

Students get the most from embedded and authentic assessments

Curriculum, assessments, and professional learning need to be aligned closer to better serve teacher practice and student learning. Here's how. 

Assessments should be an integrated part of the learning experience that blends in authentically with what teachers are already doing. It shouldn’t be a compliance exercise, but rather a tool to help educators gauge exactly where their students are and how to facilitate their growth. Here's why curriculum, assessments, and professional learning need to be better aligned to truly serve teacher practice and student learning.

Not only does personalized learning give tools for curriculum success, but it maximizes student engagement and interest.

Course design in online teaching has to well constructed in order to be on point. The techniques learned for the online classroom can also be utilized in an in-person environment for a more successful experience, both for the teacher and the student! Blending the facilitation of materials is one of the best student learning delivery models. Good read.

NEW BLOG POST! Are you an educator looking for new ways to introduce formative assessments into the classroom? Formative assessments stand as a cornerstone of effective teaching and learning. Unlike a traditional summative assessment, which evaluates students’ mastery of content at the end of a unit or course, formative assessment is an ongoing process that provides continuous feedback to both educators and learners throughout the learning process. By incorporating formative assessment techniques into the classroom, educators gain valuable insights into students’ understanding, allowing them to tailor instruction to address individual learning needs effectively. This blog post highlights 14 examples of formative assessments to help improve the learning process! #formativeassessment #educator #higherlearning #highereducation