Classroom tips


Webinar
Professional learning: The key for building student and teacher empowerment with assessment
Learn how educators can avoid thinking of assessments as frustrating events, irrelevant tasks, or disempowering hoops to jump through and create learning experiences around assessment that empower students and foster growth.
Topics: Classroom tips, Empowering educators, Formative assessment, Teacher preparation
Products: Professional Learning


Webinar
Reimagine: Strategies for helping early readers bounce back from interrupted learning
Leading literacy experts share evidence-based strategies for supporting early readers, including tips for instructional planning, scaffolding, and providing interventions. Get guidance for improving data-informed reading instruction using reporting tools available in MAP Reading Fluency.
Topics: Classroom tips, Early learning, Equity, Innovations in reporting & assessment, Insights and reports, Reading & language arts, Universal screener
Products: MAP Reading Fluency


eBook
Assessment empowerment 101: What it is, why it matters, and how to do it
We assess our students every day. But do we always know why? In this e-book, Erin Beard, content design coordinator on NWEA’s professional learning team, tells you everything you need to know about assessment empowerment, from what it is to exactly how to bring it to life in your classroom.
Topics: Assessment literacy, Classroom tips, Differentiated instruction, Empowering educators, Equity, Formative assessment, Growth, Informing instruction, Personalized learning, Professional learning, School improvement
Products: Professional Learning


Webinar
Goals mean growth: Using student goal setting to jumpstart student motivation and success
Chase Nordengren shares research-based, actionable strategies for making goal setting part of your instructional practice. Learn tips for using goals to drive growth and discover how goal setting can lead to a deeper exploration of responsive teaching and learning.
Topics: Classroom tips, Differentiated instruction, Empowering educators, Formative assessment, Growth, Instructional strategies, Research
Products: Professional Learning


Podcast
The Continuing Educator | Student Goal Setting, with Chase Nordengren and Amanda Thornton
For our final episode on student agency, we thought it was time to help our students set some better goals. So, we brought in Chase Nordengren, senior research scientist at NWEA and author of the forthcoming book, Step Into Student Goal Setting (Corwin, Jan 2022).
Topics: Classroom tips, Empowering educators, Growth, Informing instruction, Progress monitoring, Teacher preparation
Products: Professional Learning


Podcast
The Continuing Educator | Assessment Empowerment, with E. Caroline Wylie and Erin Beard
In this episode, we present the five principles of assessment empowerment—learner context, learning environments and relationships, appropriate purpose, responsive learning cycles, communication—and offer listeners strategies they can try for each.
Topics: Classroom tips, Empowering educators, Growth, Informing instruction, Progress monitoring, Teacher preparation
Products: Professional Learning


Podcast
The Continuing Educator | Accessibility and student agency, with Douglas Buttorff and Elizabeth Barker
In this episode, we discuss information why and how teaching programs fail to prepare gen ed teachers for working with students with disabilities, break down a few common myths about students with disabilities, and give teachers actionable ideas and strategies for building student agency with their entire class. Our guests are two NWEA experts in special education: Douglas Buttorff (content designer) and Elizabeth Barker (accessibility research scientist).
Topics: Classroom tips, Empowering educators, Growth, Informing instruction, Progress monitoring, Teacher preparation
Products: Professional Learning