NC-FALCON TRAINING MODULES
NC-Falcon: North Carolina’s Formative Assessment Learning Community’s Online Network
The use of formative assessments is expected – with the data being used to guide instruction.
What are formative assessments?
A process used by teachers and students during instruction that provides feedback to adjust ongoing teaching and learning to help students improve their achievement of intended instructional outcomes.
Formative Assessment includes:
· Questioning
· Discussions
· Learning Activities
· Feedback
· Conferences
· Interviews
· Student Reflections
Formative assessment is found at the classroom level and happens minute-to-minute or in short cycles. Formative assessment is not graded or used in accountability systems. The feedback involved in formative assessment is descriptive in nature so that students know what they need to do next to improve learning. – ncpublicschools.org
For More information on Formative Assessments, go to the NC-Falcon homepage located at: http://www.ncpublicschools.org/acre/falcon/
** NC-Falcon training will be required of all new teachers. New Hires will complete NC-Falcon modules within a semester of being hired. It is strongly recommended that new hires within a school building join together to complete the modules as a PLC (Principal approval of PLC meeting dates and sign in rosters required). Certificates will be sent to the HR department for documentation and CEU credits.
NC-Falcon, now housed in NC Education, has four (4) modules – each will take approximately 90 minutes to complete. The district will provide 1.1 CEU credits to each person completing the training modules (including the digital journal activities included in each module).
NC Education URL: https://center.ncsu.edu/nc/
Click the LOGIN button at the top right hand side of the page
Click on CREATE NEW ACCOUNT on the bottom right hand side of the page
Complete the information requested and
click on CREATE MY NEW ACCOUNT at the bottom
You will receive the following message:
“An email should have been sent to your address at ______
It contains easy instructions to complete your registration.”
You have to open this email and complete the items requested in order to complete your registration. BE SURE TO REQUEST A LINK TO EDGECOMBE COUNTY AND TO YOUR SCHOOL!
If you have any difficulties following these steps, please contact your School Test Coordinator OR the NC Education help desk at HELP ( / (919) 515-1320).