On Wednesday, June 13, Bo Adams and Jill Gough are facilitating a session at The Martin Institute’s 2012 Conference (#MICON12 on Twitter) on formative assessment entitled Leading Learners to Level Up.
Leveled formative assessment that offers learners the ability to calibrate understanding with expectations and, at the same time, shows the path to the next level will improve learning and teaching. Use assessment to inform learners where they are on the learning spectrum, where the targets are, and how to level up.
Leading Learners to Level Up (Framework plans) [50 minutes]
- Formative Assessment presentation [15 minutes]
- Examples of Leveled Formative assessments
- Algebra: Linear Functions, Slope [5 minutes]
- Synergy: Essential Learnings, Observation Journals [5 minutes]
- SMART Goals and other PLC examples [5 minutes]
- Use PollEverywhere to decide the next step: many individual/pair workshopped rubrics or mini individual workshopped rubric to then share out to whole group (like faculty web presence; group work – engaged participation) [5 minutes]
- Participant workshop time to develop leveled assessment for use with learners [10 minutes + 10 minutes to share out & wrap up]
[Cross-posted at Experiments in Learning by Doing]
it's about learning 
Great questions via tweets from @ideaguy42 during our #MICON12 session that we should discuss:
@ideaguy42 also tweeted “We make learning too busy to allow students to truly learn @jgough #micon12.” Grant Lichtman replied “@ideaguy42 @jgough #micon12 Busy maybe not the problem, it is the imbalance of busy and calm, and what they are busy doing.”
[Cross-posting this comment from my post .]
Martin Institute 2012 Conference organizers have created a great wiki for uploading and accessing session materials. The direct link to “Leading Learners to Level Up” on the #MICON12 wiki is
http://martininstitute.wikispaces.com/Leading+Learners+to+Level+Up