Module 2: Formative Assessment – Process Agenda

Time / Content / Handouts / Presenter /
10 min / ·  Slides 1 Welcome to the Formative Assessment Module
·  Slide 2 - Review pre-learning assignment for Formative Assessment
·  Slide 3 - Objectives / ‘Formative Assessment and Assessment for Learning’
25 min / ·  Slides 4 – 13 – What is Formative Assessment? How Formative Assessment informs instruction
·  Slide 14 – Formative Assessment Video 1
·  Slide 15 – Formative Assessment Video 2 / Note cards for writing definition
Place Formative Assessment Steps on chart Paper (slide 9) for use in all modules
20 min / ·  Slides 16 – 22 Conducting Observations
o  Slide 17 – Formative Assessment Video 3
o  Slide 21 – Participant Activity / Chart Paper and Markers
‘Objective or Subjective’
‘Objective or Subjective – Answer sheet
15 min / ·  Slides 23 - 24 – Instructional Practices & Strategies – Participant Activity
·  Slide 25 - 26 – Formative Assessment Video 4 – Participant Activity / ‘Early Childhood Instructional Play Strategies’
‘Play Scenarios’
‘Play Scenarios – Answer Sheet’
10 min / ·  Slides 27 - 31 – Types of Data Collection / NC Foundations Document
15 min / ·  Slides 32 - 36 – Sorting Data into Domains
·  Slide 37 – What’s that Domain? – Participant Activity / NC Foundations Document
Anecdotal Notes – 7 per table
Flip charts with Individual developmental domains written at the top
15 min / ·  Slide 38 – 42 Data for Different Purposes
·  Slide 43 – Assessment Type –Activity / 3 x 5 cards with “Formative”, “Benchmark” & “Summative” for each table
10 min / ·  Slide 44 - 46 – Wrap up, Assign Post-Learning Activity, & Questions
·  Slide 47-48 - References / Age anchoring formative assessment data

Effective Teacher Practices Supporting

North Carolina Foundations for Early Learning and Development
NC Early Learning Network, a joint project of NC-DPI and UNC-FPG, 2016