Today we had two outstanding professors lecture. Kim Marshall talked about formative and summative assessment and included what he called "Interim" assessment in with formative assessment. Interim assessment equates to our district benchmarks. The good news is we are administering them on the timeline they should be administered to obtain effective data for instruction with students! He gave some excellent guidelines that speak to the criteria for designing quality "Interim" assessment.
Ron Ferguson discussed effective staff development and gave specific indicators for what effective staff development looks like for teachers. In addition, he discussed tasks that help us formulate targets for student engagement and classroom learning conditions that help achieve student engagement targets. He talked about the tripod effect and academic success for all students. The three legs of the tripod are content, pedagogy, and relationships. Examining trust factors such as motive, competence, dependability, and collegiality, as well as respectfulness, are a large part of effective relationships and should be examined by administrators on a routine basis.
Penny Tramel
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