How to Assess While You Teach Math: Formative Assessment Practices and Lessons, Grades K-2: A Multimedia Professional Learning Resource

In the heart of a tough neighborhood, Pueblo Gardens Elementary, a Title I School, is a school district success story. In this multimedia resource, award-winning teacher Dana Islas takes educators into her Pueblo Gardens classroom for a seeing is believing look at seven successful formative assessment practices, demonstrating them in action through fourteen video clips and nineteen engaging lessons. You'll find - individual assessments and student-led conferences filmed in actual classrooms; - questions to help guide teachers' observations of students as they engage in each lesson; - suggestions for supporting students who struggle; - teacher and student checklists for guiding formative assessment in each lesson; - a rubric to help teachers scaffold the order of student work shared in a whole-group discussion; - downloadable, ready-to-use reproducibles; and more. How to Assess While You Teach Math is the ideal resource for further understanding the process of formative assessment in addition to improving your teaching of mathematics. All lessons are connected to the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics and Standards for Mathematical Practice. The video clips provide a visual platform for teachers to reflect on their current assessment practices and target essential understandings from their readings. The fourteen formative assessment video segments were filmed in an actual classroom. Clips range from 2 to 9 minutes in length with a total viewing time of approximately 70 minutes.…