Learn the “how’s” and “why’s” of assessing and grading diverse learners in all subjects in a standards-based world.

During this two-day workshop, Rick Wormeli shows you how you can manage evidence-based assessment and grading, using innovative strategies designed to meet your state’s standards as well as your students’ unique needs.

Participants will leave this workshop ready to:

• Focus assessments so that they provide valid evidence of what is and is not mastery.
• Effectively use assessment that reveals your students’ readiness and then provides descriptive feedback to help students revise their efforts and achieve mastery of content and skills.
• Identify the necessary elements for useful pre-, formative, common, and summative assessments that really work in today’s classrooms.
• Know what to grade, how to grade, and how to report a grade, especially when working with students who learn differently.
• Thoughtfully address the burning issues of assessment and grading, including: designing rubrics, using grading scales, averaging scores, handling zeroes, homework, do-overs, late work, extra credit, and much more.
• Develop a principled mindset to determine assessment and grading techniques that create transcripts of true integrity that stakeholders in other schools and districts can trust.
  
  

This is not a sit-and-get workshop, but a fully interactive day of learning and sharing with teachers like you. And, at the end of the day, you’ll have simple strategies that you can immediately use in your classroom to transform the way you teach.

Attend and Receive:

• Resource Book
• Rick's best-selling book, Fair Isn't Always Equal, 2nd edition