Estimated Completion Time: 20 minutes
Before You Begin: Common formative assessments are used to demonstrate what students have learned and what concepts have been grasped. They also assist the teachers in seeing weak areas in standards that students need support in. This page will provide information on how to align creating formative assessments with deconstructing standards, and knowing the importance of why they are created. There is 1 task to be completed after all materials are reviewed. Additional resources on how to create formative assessments and deconstructing standards are available on this page.
Task 5: Common Formative Assessments
Watch the video (8:20) below to learn more about the need for deconstructing standards. Remember to put your responses from the Application section in the Perspectives and Resources portion of the HyperDoc.
Training
Application
Why is it important to align common assessments to unwrapped standards?
Why is it important to know the purpose of why common assessments are built?
As educators, how can we ensure that we are teaching the skills necessary for student success?
Additional Materials and Resources: Explore these resources for further information on deconstructing standards and common formative assessments. To access additional resources, please click on the Curriculum Mapping, Solution Tree and Webinar tabs.
This resource provides additional information on how to deconstruct standards and develop learning targets by providing practice examples for participants. Participants can use the information to assist them in practicing the correct way to deconstruct standards and develop learning targets.
Participants will have access to links which will take them to printable reproducibles inclusive of a Figure showing the 5 steps process in unwrapping standards, sample agenda for unwrapping standards, and unwrapping template.
This resource is a power point presentation that will give information to participants on writing common formative assessments.
