CLASSROOM BASED ASSESSMENT:
PUTTING THE PIECES TOGETHER
(AND STAYING SANE)
How can assessment become manageable? The focus will be on practical ideas that help weave instruction and assessment together. Bonnie Campbell Hill will provide forms and ideas for organizing teacher's notebooks, anecdotal notes, rubrics, and other ways to assess reading and writing development in the elementary classroom. She will show how many teachers connect their teaching and assessment to standards and student portfolios. The emphasis is on practical ideas that have proven successful in elementary classrooms.
Participants will receive an extensive packet of assessment forms that will enable you to immediately use these ideas in your classroom.
In this workshop, you will learn how to:
• strengthen your assessment and evaluation program by articulating goals
• connect your assessment to research and standards
• create a manageable outline for collecting assessment information
• develop a systematic method for taking anecdotal notes
• choose from a menu of specific classroom based assessment ideas
• encourage self-reflection and goal-setting with students
• inform