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Teachers will learn: • Strategies for introducing students to conceptual learning • Instructional strategies to help students uncover and transfer concepts • How to write concept-based lessons • How to assess for conceptual understanding • How to differentiate in a concept-based classroom • How CBCI aligns with other current best practices and initiatives (like PBL, CCSS, etc.)
How Do We Design Assessments for Conceptual Understanding?
Please select the best answer to the following question:
Why do we assess students?
- To categorize students based on performance
- To evaluate students’ understanding of a topic or skills
- To understand where students are and how we can help them grow
- To facilitate students’ understanding of their own growth
The right answer is … well, it’s not that simple. First, our own bias: In our ideal world the answer to this question would always be C and D. We dream of a teaching and learning setting where students are internally motivated to learn, move at a pace that is appropriately challenging, and receive something more like scout badges for demonstration of mastery of ...
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