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Balancing Informational & Literary Texts
(Grades K-5)

This workshop will help teachers understand the benefits of helping students examine their own achievement data and make personal learning goals. Participants will also explore tools that will enable them to help students understand the assessment criteria and guide them through this process.


This course is primarily geared towards elementary and middle school ages though the strategies can be used with high school students too.


About This Course

This workshop is part of a new series of content collections - Pepper Online Workshops (POW) – focusing on the hottest topics that educators are dealing with across the country.  These have been developed in partnership with WestEd using some of the resources from their Doing What Works project. These workshops feature amazing videos, interactive planning tools, and other research-based materials. 


Teaching students to examine their own data and set learning goals can be a powerful learning tool to help students monitor their own performance and establish personal learning goals.


The goal of this workshop is to show teachers the benefit of providing explicit instruction to elementary and secondary students regularly using achievement data to do this. While helping students make data-based decisions, teachers should emphasize the students’ responsibility for improving their own learning. Students are best prepared to learn from their achievement data when they understand the learning objectives; are provided thoughtful, constructive feedback on their progress; and are given sufficient time and tools to analyze the data and diagnose their own mistakes. Teachers can then use students’ data analysis to identify factors that may motivate student performance and adjust their instruction to better meet students’ needs.


This workshop will help teachers understand the benefits of helping students examine their own achievement data and make personal learning goals. Participants will also explore tools that will enable them to help students understand the assessment criteria and guide them through this process.




WAYS TO TAKE THIS COURSE

Simply Audit this Course

Can't commit to all of the lectures, assignments, and tests? Audit this course and have complete access to all of the course material, tests, people, portfolios, and the online discussion forum. You decide what and how much you want to do.

Try for a Certificate

Looking to test your mettle? Participate in all of the course's activities (we use the honor code around here) and if your work meets the 85% requirements, you'll receive a personalized certificate to showcase your achievement. You can also apply for course credit (if desired).


Course Staff

WestEd


WestEd, a nationally recognized nonpartisan, nonprofit research, development, and service agency working with education and other communities throughout the United States and abroad. WestEd aims to improve education and other important outcomes for children, youth and adults. WestEd provides a wide range of resources for K-12 educators to use in their classrooms.

Lori Larsen


Lori Larsen has more than 20 years experience in the education environment. Her experience includes classroom teaching, grant implementation, district level administration, and professional development facilitation. Lori has provided professional development for teachers throughout the United States and Canada. She has a Bachelor's of Science degree in K-8 Education from Marshall University and a Master’s of Science degree in Elementary Education from Furman University. She has made presentations at local, state, and national conferences highlighting the use of technology as an instructional tool and integrating technology into the curriculum. Lori has a passion for working with teachers and providing support to help teachers engage students and enhance classroom instruction.
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Sarah Feldman, Seewan Eng
Course Code: POW326
Course Release: May 08, 2017
Estimated Effort: 1.0 Hours

Suggested Prerequisites:
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