Open Classroom Week gives instructors the opportunity to observe what others are doing in their classrooms and engage in conversations about teaching with their colleagues. A number of instructors will open their classroom doors to allow their colleagues to watch them teach and observe their approaches to different classroom settings, teaching practices, technology applications and learning experiences.
EDUC 456 - Assessment
Location: Taylor Institue, Learning Studio A
Instrucutor: Brit Paris
Course description: Using a problem-based learning approach, this course aims to equip student teachers with assessment literacy that displays their understandings of the definitions, purposes, functions, and principles of different forms of assessment. Through the investigation of assessment problems, student teachers work through key concepts of measurement, testing, balanced assessment, assessment of learning, assessment for learning, assessment as learning, and authentic assessment. Further, they will develop their assessment capacity in the following key aspects: quality assessment and rubric design, evaluation of the quality of performance assessments and rubrics, assessment for learning practices, and sound grading and reporting practices.
Observers can expect to see teaching strategies including: project based approach, problem solving (individual or group), guest speakers, class discussion and personal response systems (clickers, TopHat, Kahoot, etc).
