CATCA 2022

Are you looking for strategies to use in your classroom that will enhance student learning and provide you valuable feedback about your teaching practice? Formative assessment provides information on what, how much and how well students are learning. This information can guide instructional practice and will benefit all students; however, it will particularly have a positive impact on low-achievers. This would be a valuable session for you because it will introduce you to a range of formative classroom assessment techniques, how to use them, how to analyze the data that they gather, and how to share that data with students. The takeaways from this session are very practical and could be smoothly incorporated into your classroom regardless of teaching situation or teaching style.

While waiting for the release of new Alberta curriculum, teachers can do many things to ensure they are ready to plan, instruct, and assess the new learner outcomes. Teaching and assessing through the lens of concepts is a universal and transferable teacher skill. This pedagogical approach is used to teach and assess any program of studies or common core standards across the globe. Research from internationally recognized thought leaders in Assessment will be referenced throughout the session.

In this era, we have the opportunity to think of education differently. We don't have to use worksheets or standardized assessments to have students show what they know. Plus, worksheets often ends up in file thirteen and have no use beyond a simple check for understanding. Let's innovate and consider the many options we have to engage students in showing what they know while having a positive impact on society at the same time. To have access to this video you will need sign up with the following Google Form:https://forms.gle/UsdgGceaxX5mrMRx6

In this session, we will explore the following questions:
What exactly is an authentic assessment?
How do authentic assessments help to engage vulnerable students?
How do authentic assessments foster academic integrity and cognitive rigour?
What can I do right now to incorporate the characteristics of an authentic assessment into my current assessments?

Wondering about an efficient way to quickly check your students' understanding of a concept? This tried and true method will tell you which students are struggling, which students need more at grade level practice, and which students need to be challenged. You will leave with easy-to-implement ideas and tools to improve your instruction both in the classroom and online. To have access to this video you will need sign up with the following Google Form:https://forms.gle/UsdgGceaxX5mrMRx6

During an AAC workshop with assessment expert, Dylan Wiliam, we learned about an idea called "the 25% rule" for classroom assessment. In this session, we’ll explain exactly what this rule means and offer tips on how to implement the rule into your assessment practice.