Surrey Educator Carley Brockway and her students discuss how a focus on instructional strategies promotes engagement and a deeper understanding in the mathematics classroom. âWe use whiteboards and as they are working on these whiteboards I will walk around the class and discuss the strategies they are using. When I have the opportunity to see…
Surrey educator Menelaina Valencia shares how she harnesses the power of visual evidence, formative assessment practices, and student self-assessment to promote learning in the dance studio. The dancer who walks in here in September is nowhere as good as the dancer tht leaves here in June. So, I don’t get the philosophy of letting September…
Formative assessment places teachers and students in the position of gathering and acting on evidence of student learning in a timely manner. Formative assessment includes students engaging in self and peer-assessment based on clearly established criteria, thereby developing students’ ability to reflect and set goals in order to take ownership for their learning.…