January Training: Assessment

Finally! The software is installed and the Promethean clickers are ready to go! If only I could remember how to create a quiz... Only five days have passed since Jason's thorough training and my diligent note-taking, and alas! I have already forgotten the necessary steps to getting started. I have made it my mission this week to become the clicker master!

I enjoyed our training on summative versus formative assessment--a topic which continuously baffles me with how seemingly straight forward, yet entirely deceiving its content seems to be. The biggest "ah ha" for me was that summative assessment does not always have to be "formal." I suppose the major difference would be that formative is used by both teacher and students to drive lesson plans, while summative is more for teacher use to measure what a student knows at a given point in time. I hope to clarify some lingering questions and concerns in upcoming clusters and trainings.

In the mean time, I'll practice my assessment techniques with my floundering expertise on Promethean software!