The Facilitator's Guide to Classroom Assessment K-12

Author: Anne Davies

The Facilitator's Guide to Classroom Assessment K-12 multimedia kit is for educators who want to introduce classroom assessment into their schools and are looking for the resources to do it. Based on the work of noted author and educator, Dr. Anne Davies, and produced by the staff at Connections Publishing, the kit contains:

• an interactive CD with resource files including actual student samples, ready-to-use handouts, and overhead charts and diagrams
• a copy of the best-selling book, Making Classroom Assessment Work
• eight video clips totaling more than 26 minutes of footage
• an overview booklet filled with practical steps, suggestions, and examples

Using these tools, a skilled facilitator will successfully lead professional development sessions in classroom assessment.

Whether your faculty has expertise with classroom assessment or not, this is an area for new learning and skill development that will pay off for teachers, students, parents, and administrators. The multimedia kit will engage your team members in exploring key ideas related to classroom assessment, and give you the tools to make it work for both educators and students. Based on topics covered by Dr. Davies and other well-known educators at conferences and seminars around the world, and field-tested in many different situations, the Facilitator's Guide provides 25 practical and easy-to-follow conversations specifically designed for a facilitator to use with a group of teachers. Each conversation includes a learning goal, a list of materials, directions for getting started, ways to debrief, and ideas for participants so they are encouraged and supported to take action where it matters - in classrooms with students.

The interactive CD contains 270 pages including handout materials that print directly to your inkjet or laser printer and provide unlimited new documents for future use. A companion video lets you sit in on conference presentations and one-on-one conversations with Dr. Anne Davies as she guides your group through theoretical discussions and specific examples relating to the material contained in the kit.

• 80 pages of actual student samples give you and participating teachers a guide to recognize whether your own classroom assessment implementation process is on track.
• 60 pages of clean blackline handouts for faculty and student use, easily printed, ensuring a fresh supply of sharp graphics year after year.
• 27 individual worksheets relating to the different conversations and exercises to help learners discover the keys to classroom assessment.
• Overhead transparency masters that help facilitators guide larger group workshop participants through important ideas easily, using different presentation media.
• Articles that help facilitators communicate key assessment ideas in simple ways that make sense.
  

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FG Companion - Print

Author: Anne Davies

Classroom teachers often express a need to learn more about classroom assessment. The FG Companion - Course Teaching Notes provides step-by-step guidelines for teaching a course on classroom assessment. It outlines fifteen 1.5 to 3 hour classes, including ideas for getting started and homework assignments. The ideas in the FG Companion complement the resources provided in the Facilitator's Guide to Classroom Assessment K-12. A comprehensive course outline is provided, making it possible to apply to your local university for credit.

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FG Companion - Download

Author: Anne Davies

Classroom teachers often express a need to learn more about classroom assessment. The FG Companion - Course Teaching Notes provides step-by-step guidelines for teaching a course on classroom assessment. It includes directions for fifteen 1.5 to 3 hour classes, including ideas for getting started and homework assignments. The ideas in the FG Companion complement the resources provided in the Facilitator's Guide to Classroom Assessment K-12. A comprehensive course outline is provided, making it possible to apply to your local university for credit.

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Leaders' Series

Authors: Anne Davies, Sandra Herbst, Beth Parrott Reynolds

Today's young people need to be independent and self-directed in their education, since they are more likely to have many careers throughout their lifetimes. These books are jammed with practical ideas, and examples of how leaders (lead learners, principals, and superintendents) can implement assessment for learning at all levels of education and make it work for everyone.

Series is comprised of two volumes described below:

• Leading the Way to Making Classroom Assessment Work
• Transforming Barriers to Assessment for Learning: Lessons Learned from Leaders

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Leading the Way to Making Classroom Assessment Work

Authors: Anne Davies, with Sandra Herbst and Beth Parrott Reynolds

In this book, Anne Davies, a leader in the field of classroom assessment, is joined by Sandra Herbst and Beth Parrott Reynolds to combine their experience and ideas into a guide for educational leaders.

Based on the second edition of Making Classroom Assessment Work, the popular guidebook for teachers, Leading the Way is designed to help school administrators, district leaders (or personnel), and superintendents support educators and students in the assessment process. This guide describes indicators of successful assessment practice and ways of supporting teachers in the classroom, as well as examples of how leaders have modeled assessment for learning to colleagues and students in their school communities. It also offers a practical approach to the challenges of meeting traditional evaluation standards while assessing learning in many other ways.

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Transforming Barriers to Assessment for Learning: Lessons Learned from Leaders

Authors: Anne Davies, Sandra Herbst, and Beth Parrott Reynolds

Research shows that quality classroom assessment is the solution to improving education in schools today. Assessment for learning engages students in developing their own learning skills and providing the proof of learning that is required for teachers to report according to regulations. In order for this paradigm shift to occur for students in the classroom, the change must begin with policy makers and leaders. This book shows how school administrators, district personnel and superintendents have overcome the barriers and implemented a new system of learning for all. By experiencing the process and benefits of assessment for learning first-hand, lead learners can become enthusiastic models for colleagues and students.

Coauthors Anne Davies, Sandra Herbst, and Beth Parrott Reynolds share ideas and stories of how educational leaders have found their way through the challenges, using assessment for learning to achieve success for all learners. This book also features a collection of pertinent research summaries, as well as forms to help implement the ideas to practice.

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Assessment of Learning: A Professional Learning Resource Standards-Based Grading & Reporting

Author: Anne Davies

This resource is for facilitators providing professional learning support in the area of assessment of learning as it relates to Standards-Based Grading and Reporting. The multi-media resource is designed to assist leaders to help classroom teachers learn about how to build an assessment plan and give standards-based report card grades.

It includes more than 125 minutes of high quality video footage divided into 45 interactive segments, a professionally designed handout, 58 .pdf files for use by teachers and their student, instructions for a professional learning conversation, and more. Comes with complete directions for use as either a full-day workshop or mini-series.

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Student-Involved Conferences

Authors: Rick Stiggins, Anne Davies

This interactive video outlines effective steps for involving students in the assessment process through the use of student-led conferences. Involving students in self-evaluation encourages student willingness to take responsibility for their own learning. The practical conferencing formats and strategies for student self-evaluation offered in this training video provide a key motivational approach that works in helping students develop a desire to achieve.

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Workshop-In-A-Box

Author: Anne Davies

Assessment for learning is transforming classrooms, schools, and entire communities because it encourages learning and gently draws out the capabilities of each student, especially those who have the most difficulty learning.

This Workshop-In-A-Box includes all materials needed for a stand-alone, "do it yourself" facilitated workshop for almost any size group of teachers who want to learn both the "why" and the "how" of assessment for learning.

The materials include:

• PowerPoint slides for each part of the day
• Video segments used at key parts of the workshop to introduce concepts and provide evidence of current classroom practice
• Full agenda with facilitator notes to set the purpose for the day, provide context, and guide participant expectations
• Ground rules for table groups
• Step-by-step instructions and timeline with full resources for every step of the way
• Guidelines or suggestions for working with the group, drawing out participation and contributions, fielding questions and objections, and handling difficult conversations

Workshop texts are purchased separately:

• Making Classroom Assessment Work, 2nd Edition (one copy required for each participant)
• Knowing What Counts series (one set required for every three participants to share)

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Making Classroom Assessment Work Bundle

Author: Anne Davies

Learning teams across North America have been asking for bulk orders of these two classroom assessment resources. They love using the best-selling Making Classroom Assessment Work to guide their learning and the companion Journal to record their reflections, ideas, and growth over time. To make them affordable, we have bundled them together in groups of five.

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