Course | Online Formative Assessment

$320.00

Plus taxes & fees

Provider: Fresno Pacific University

Elementary school Course | Online Formative Assessment

Facilitator

Janet Adams
Janet's journey in education has been so much fun. She studied nutrition and dietetics with an emphasis in chemistry graduating with honors and soon enjoyed sharing her knowledge through consulting. The bug for teaching quickly grew and Janet acquired a multi-subject teaching credential while working in a small K-8 elementary school assembling the first computer lab. Passionate about her new venture, Janet moved to a larger district and taught 3rd and 4th grades excited about bringing in new field trips to Yosemite, the state capital and wrangling in a few horses to showcase cowboy times. Now an online instructor, Janet takes the time to read all about her students’ ideas in their classrooms and love to locate additional resources for them. Janet is so grateful for an amazing group of online colleagues and educators that share and learn from each other.

Description

Formative! has now partnered with Google for Education, and is part of the G Suite Marketplace. It is one of the most powerful and free online tools available to classroom teachers. You will create custom formative assessments for your students that will allow you to easily assess and provide immediate feedback to your students in real time. With Formative you can upload and transform documents, create quizzes, incorporate video content and images, and add links to articles, but the real power of Formative is the ability to see the progress of each of your students at the same time and quickly provide support. Formative also allows you to track your students' progress in reaching state standards and provides valuable data to see how they are progressing over time. Formative is a constantly developing platform with a growing community of educators and a large and accessible library of teacher-created assessments that you will contribute your creativity to as well. Formative works best in 1:1 classrooms where each student has access to his/her own device.

Note: There is no required book for this course

This course is applicable towards the Classroom Technology Integration Certificate and Online Teaching Certificate.

Syllabus

Online Resources: Relevant online resources that support the course content and encourage further investigation will be available throughout the course assignments. Active hyperlinks are utilized throughout the course and will link to the appropriate information when clicked. These include videos, podcasts, worksheets, online activities, journal articles and other resources.

Course Dates
Self-paced; students may enroll at any time and take up to one year, from the date of registration, to complete assignments. Students may complete assignments in no less than three weeks for a 3- unit course (one week per unit).

National Standards Addressed in This Course

National Board for Professional Teaching Standards (NBPTS)

First published in 1989 and updated in 2016, What Teachers Should Know and Be Able to Do articulates the National Board’s Five Core Propositions for teaching. The Five Core Propositions - comparable to medicine’s Hippocratic Oath — set forth the profession’s vision for accomplished teaching. Together, the propositions form the basis of all National Board Standards and the foundation for National Board Certification. Course assignments have been designed so students can demonstrate excellence against these professional teaching standards whenever possible.
• Proposition 1: Teachers are committed to students and their learning
• Proposition 2: Teachers know the subject they teach and how to teach those subjects to
students
• Proposition 3: Teachers are responsible for managing and monitoring student learning
• Proposition 4: Teachers think systematically about their practice and learn from experience
• Proposition 5: Teachers are members of learning communities

For more information about the syllabus please visit Fresno Pacific University page.