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Using Diagnostic Assessments to Differentiate Math Instruction
Math, Assessment Strategies | K-12
Math teachers face enormous pressure to help their students perform well on state and national exams. However, these cumulative end-of-year assessments do little to help teachers evaluate how students are performing throughout the year and how to help them effectively while they’re still in your classroom. That’s where diagnostic assessments come in. Diagnostic assessments give you the data you need to determine students’ needs and drive instructional practices to improve their learning.
In this course, you will learn a variety of assessment techniques to help you diagnose students’ strengths and weaknesses in the math classroom. The key to differentiating curriculum is having the appropriate data that show you what kind of support students need. Therefore, we’ll explore how to create assessments that yield the right data, plus techniques for implementing the assessments successfully. In addition, you’ll receive tech tools, posters, graphic organizers, and templates that will help you design assessments and differentiate your curriculum.
Using the techniques from this course, you’ll be able to meet the diverse needs of all learners in your classroom to help them achieve their highest potential in math.
Connections to Practice
This course provides the following classroom connections:
- Strategies and techniques to assess students in the math classroom
- Tools such as posters, graphic organizers, and templates to support assessment and differentiation
- Resources to differentiate instruction in the math classroom
- Tools for creating assessments in the math classroom
Course Objectives
In this course, participants will:
- Examine a variety of assessment tools in the math classroom.
- Select technology tools to assess and differentiate in the math classroom.
- Implement a variety of assessments to determine student strengths and areas for growth in the math classroom.
- Develop strategies for gaining meaningful data from assessments.
- Create successful assessments that will yield valuable data and support differentiation.
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