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Math Assessments with Scales are Now Editable!
In the last school year I've received some really great comments from teachers. They tell me how useful the leveled Math Assessments with Scales and Posters have been for supporting a growth mindset and differentiation! If your school uses the Marzano Framework for...
Formal Assessments for Marzano Scales
Last post I discussed the Pros and Cons of Informal Assessments. This week I am switching to the idea of using formal assessments for Marzano Scales because I found that they were so much more effective! The benefits of formal assessments are that they give you and...
Pros and Cons of Informal Assessments
In any classroom there are two basic ways you can pre-assess your students' level of comprehension: informal or formal assessments. The former approach can be easier, but there are pros and cons of informal assessments. In previous posts I discussed two approaches to...
How to Use Marzano’s Taxonomy to Write Your Own Scales
With the explosion of Marzano framework for teacher evaluations, and Marzano Scales refocusing classroom instruction, I get a lot of questions from teachers trying to figure out how to write their own scales to meet district or state requirements. A few months ago I...
Equivalence: a Big Idea in Mathematics
Throughout the various strands or domains of Mathematics there are common threads, similar to themes in Language Arts. Equivalence: a Big Idea in Mathematics is one of the biggest and most fundamental concepts in every subtopic. Whether you're dealing with operations,...
Engage Students with Kid-Friendly Goals
Have you ever felt like as a teacher, you're doing most of the work to learn, organize, pace, and dispense the curriculum while your students sit back passively waiting for you to tell them what to do? What if your students understood that it was their job to learn...
How Do Quizzes Fit Into Student Assessment?
Heather F. had a good question on TpT; How do Quizzes fit into student Assessment when using scales? Assessment can seem overwhelming, especially if your school or district requires their own special brand of data tracking. In the classroom it's imperative that we...
Motivate Students with Everyday Heroes
Everyday heroes are the people who do amazing things, generous things, inspiring things, in everyday situations that aren't usually mentioned in the newspapers or history books. To motivate students with everyday heroes means to expose them to examples of people in...
Australian Standards for Year 4 Number and Place Value
The Year 4 Australian Leveled Assessments with Marzano Scales based on the Australian Standards for Year 4 Number and Place Value are almost done! I really wanted them finished before your new school year started, but life of course got in the way a bit! We does out...
