Learn about a curriculum design process that asks teachers and students to focus on why rather than what — sometimes called backwards design.
Learn why and how schools move beyond assessment of discrete information and skills taught in isolation to authentic, transfer-based learning for all students in which they use information, skills, and procedures in real-world ways.
Kimberly Farless demonstrates two types of formative assessment in her math class. In the first task, as the class works individually, she moves from student to student to check in with them. The second task is an exit card, where she asks students at the end of her lesson to quickly summarize the main point of the class.
