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Formative Assessment and Fine Arts Education: Embracing Assessment to Support Student Needs
Karrie LaFave Leave a Comment Formative Assessment
Editor’s Note This is the second of a three part blog series by Tara Kintz exploring the intersections of formative assessment and the fine arts. In this blog she prompts us...
Continue ReadingThinking about Demonstrating Educator Effectiveness?
Heather Vaughan-Southard Leave a Comment data, Demonstrating Educator Effectiveness, documenting instruction, educator effectiveness, performance events, performance tasks, slo, student growth, student learning objectives, student sample, teacher evaluation, teacher growth
It is that time of year again! With the beginning of the school year, comes the development of Individual Development Plans for teachers. Last year, we recorded multiple webinars related to Demonstrating Educator Effectiveness. Topics...
Continue ReadingJoni Starr: Courageous Creativity – Everything is Waiting for You
Heather Vaughan-Southard Leave a Comment Courageous Creativity, creativity, dance, Joni Starr, MAEIA, music, theatre, visual arts
This is an unprecedented time. Our regular routine has been disrupted, human interactions are minimized and our relationship to the future has been compromised. The question is: Who do you choose to be in response?...
Continue ReadingHolly Olzsewski: Who’s teaching whom? Using assessment to build relationships in the classroom
Holly Olszewski Leave a Comment arts assessment, arts education, assessment, Holly Olszewski, MAEIA, music, Performance Assessment
I hear many complaints about assessment from my colleagues, those in my subject area and others. When I am in a good mood, I try to counter their complaints with “Assessment is great!”, “Assessment helps...
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