formative assessments

Any great teacher or coach is constantly assessing performance and giving timely and direct feedback. Formative assessments are paramount in the math classroom. There are some assessments that are more formal than others, but you have to plan them in order to make sure they happen. Also, you shouldn’t do assessments just because you’re supposed to do them. As teachers, we use, and value, formative assessment because they inform our feedback to students and the way we’ll deliver instruction in the future.

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