Learning Opportunities

Building Thinking Classrooms: Designing and Adapting Tools for Feedback and Grading

Presented By

Landry Forand

Series Sessions

Date Time
Wednesday, March 12, 2025 9:00 AM - 3:30 PM

Location

FFCA - Learning Centre 110 - 7000 Railway St. SE, Calgary, AB

Grade Levels

K-3, Grades 4 - 6, Grades 7 - 9, Grades 10 - 12

Target audience: K-12 administrators, instructional leaders, pre-service teachers and teachers are encouraged to attend.

 This session is designed to explore and utilize assessment tools for learning, reporting (grading), and fostering a culture that aligns with the Thinking Classroom Pedagogy. 

We will:

 

  • work on designing assessment tools tailored to your specific contexts and provide opportunities to practice their implementation. 
  • examine the various methods (products, conversations, observations) for collecting data using these tools and discuss how to provide ongoing feedback and grades. 
  • explore the relationship between assessment and school culture, focusing on how assessment can create an environment that promotes student learning and motivation.

 

You will leave the session with knowledge, resources and tools that can be implemented the very next day.

This session will fully utilize the 14-practices of a Thinking Classroom with tasks tailored to covering content in assessment. You will experience that a Thinking Classroom can not only improve our experience in the classroom but is an effective practice in professional development with adult learning. Bring comfortable shoes!



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