SELF-STUDY: Standards in Teaching (10 Hours)

“Benchmarks? Rubrics? Assessments? Content, Instructional and Performance Standards?”

Welcome to this dual course aimed to help you understand more about the standards in teaching. This dual course consists of the following 5 hour courses:

• Integrating standards in education
• Formative Assessment

The first part of this course will help you understand more about standards and how you can integrate them in your classroom. The second part of this course will focus on standards based Formative Assessment, and how you can use this in your classroom. Formative assessments allow teachers to respond to the needs of the student quickly, however more importantly it allows the student to shape instruction (both a student-centered and teacher-driven education model).

This course will help you provide standards based education in your classroom. It will equip you with ideas, strategies and information that will help you implement the latest educational standards in your classroom.