Category: Passionate Teaching Journey Blog

Formative assessments are a great way to check in with students to see how they are doing with new content they are learning. Formative assessments can be informal too! You can have a quick discussion with the class, you can listen to a group talking about a piece of text, you can give out a 3 question exit ticket, and much more! Formative assessments informs our teaching and lets us know if we need to re-teach, try something different, give a break, move onto the next piece of content, or something else! We can give formative assessments throughout a class...