Haley Knowlton, Practicum 2018

Welcome back everyone! This post is going to be about the book we just finished for EDU 223, Embedded Formative Assessment. This book was all about ways to get your students engaged in their assessments and numerous new ways on how to give them these formative assessments. It talks about not only teacher given formative assessments, but formative assessments that promote peer learning. In the first two chapters discussed how important teaching is in society and the quality/effectiveness of the teachers we are currently employing. The future of our nation and its economy relies on the future workforce we are currently training and having enrolled in schools. The author also discussed replacing our entire workforce of teachers with newer freshly trained teachers will take too long, so we need to invest in equipping our current teachers with newer better tools to promote students' learning and their engagement. These tools are based around the concept of formative assessments wher