Standards and Communications in Teaching (1 Iowa LRC – Self Study)
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“Benchmarks? Rubrics? Assessments? Content, Instructional and Performance Standards?”
In an age where there are multiple approaches to teaching and educating students, it becomes important to ensure that a particular standard is maintained. This class helps teachers achieve goals, while empowering you with skills and tools to deliver the best of quality education. Standards and Communications in Teaching is a three part integrated course that will highlight various strategies for facilitating student learning and improving academic achievement.
Section A, Integrating Standards in Teaching, helps teachers understand more about standards-based education, while Section B, Formative Assessment, equips teachers with assessment tools that help maintain these standards. Together, they will help you explore challenges in incorporating standards; as well as provide strategies to help you overcome any obstacles.
Section C, Partnering with Parents, helps you enhance your professional interaction and communication skills with parents as you will better understand why parents think the way that they do. You will also discover strategies that you can use in a number of common challenging situations teachers face while working with parents. Thus, you build lasting relationships with the parents of your students.
This course is rich with practical ideas, strategies and exercises that will equip you with an extensive knowledge that contributes to improved student performance.
About Self-Study courses:
Professional Learning Board integrated self-study professional development courses are conveniently available 24 x 7 to teacher-learners.Each self-study PD course includes:
- Course content delivered in an interactive online textbook,
- Practical suggestions that can be implemented immediately,
- Resources and links to additional resources,
- Quiz drawn at random so no two are the same from dozens of questions in a subject-specific bank
- Printable certificate of completion
- Lifetime access
- 1 License Renewal Credit
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Thank you - I enjoyed the course, good information - nice to review the difference between summative and formative assessments. Need to use more formative in our classrooms. Elizabeth H.
I loved the link templates for thank you cards, teacher introduction,confrence guidelines, etc. I found them to be very helpful and useful.
Great lesson on what Formative assessment is compared with summative assessment!
Finally, formative assessments are easily explained. Thank you. Your information on Rubrics was amazing. Thank you for the Rubric explanation.