On Target?

Formative Assessment

Question 1 • Question 2 • Question 3

Question #2

In what ways are students’ informal understandings and language use valued and built on?

Drag the teaching descriptions on to the target. Put the ones most central the TRU Dimension: Formative Assessment toward the center of the target.

Formative Assessment

The extent to which classroom activities elicit student thinking and subsequent interactions respond to those ideas, building on productive beginnings and addressing emerging misunderstandings. Powerful instruction “meets students where they are” and gives them opportunities to deepen their understandings.