The Joy of Assessment: Empowering Students and Teachers through Mastery
Date: Friday, May 15, 2020
Time: 9am-4:30pm
Location: TBD
Objectives: By the end of this training, participants will be able to:
1. Summarize the benefits to both teachers and students of measuring mastery.
2. Create valid and reliable assessments aligned to Colorado’s Comprehensive Health Education Standards.
3. Utilize best practices for data collection to show student growth.
4. Analyze student data to determine instructional next steps.
Description: Go beyond paper and pencil tests. Health skills require assessments that are intentionally designed to measure a student’s understanding and abilities. This training will help shift the use of assessments solely as accountability tools to building the understanding that assessments are an opportunity for both the teacher and student to share in the joy of learning a new skill or concept. Participants will leave with a menu of assessment options that go beyond multiple choice and short-answer responses. Participants will also leave with creative ways to collect and track student data to show growth and inform instructional next steps.
Intended Audience: Health Teachers, School Health Professionals, Counselors and other school level educators who teach Health Education to students. All attendees should bring laptops.