lrice Says:
December 4, 2008 at 1:48 pm
I agree that teachers lack the formal training to create useful assessments. I have a question regarding assessments in smaller learning community schools such as early colleges. At my school, we have very limited staff (14) and I am not sure how we are able to ensure common assessments and other key components of sustainable professional learning communities are in place when there is only one teacher per content area? We are able to have vertical planning and dialog, but lack horizontal planning. Also, how can my teachers have more of an open dialog with colleagues as it relates to formative and summative assessment when they may not teach the same students or the same subject areas? Help!