Empower your students to make important decisions about their learning experiences.
Rely on Marzano Resources to support you every step of the way in your assessment and grading processes. Discover how to launch new assessment initiatives, enhance the quality of existing assessments, and overcome assessment challenges.
With professional development for teachers centered on assessment and grading, you and your team will:
Align curriculum and assessments with state and district standards
Design accurate, meaningful, and authentic assessments
Transition to a standards-based grading system
Identify and close achievement gaps
The Basics: Building Your Skills
One-Day Services
Your team is ready to gain understanding, inspiration, and strategies to improve teaching and learning in your school or district.
Attendees will learn from an associate with experience and expertise in implementing and sustaining effective assessment and grading practices.
Explore the benefits of standards-based learning and gain expert advice and tips for beginning the transition successfully.
Understand how a standards-based system benefits all students, and how you can lead the transition in your school or district.
Develop an effective system of grading and reporting and closely monitor each learner’s progress using assessment data.
Go Further: Deepening Your Skills
Two- to Four-Day Services
You need more intensive sessions to deepen your understanding and further your progress.
Understand the role of standards and proficiency scales in a standards-based classroom.
Explore a research-backed, five-phase plan for leading the transition to a standards-based system.
Learn research-based practices for using quality formative assessments aligned with solid grading practices.
Discover a clear path for transitioning to more holistic assessment methods that truly reflect course curriculum and student progress
Address the ethical challenges teachers face in preparing students for these tests and what can be done to ensure effective test preparation
Equip your teachers and educational leaders for this critical task with step-by-step guidelines to increase their effectiveness
Grow an understanding of presentation as a skill that can be improved through practice and positive feedback.
Receive detailed explanations of each component of the framework and guidance for putting it into practice in your classroom.
Sustaining Your Skills
Multi-Day Service
You want to embed key routines and practices designed to significantly improve your professional well-being and positively impact your colleagues and students.
Whether you need focused guidance in planning and teaching standards-based learning or leading the transition to more effective assessment and grading practices, your expert coach will provide the support you need to meet and exceed your goals
Unlock unlimited access to professional learning videos and book chapters focused on standards-based learning, classroom assessment, the use of proficiency scales, and more.
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