Lesson Planning with Formative Assessment
Supporting materials for training workshops on how to incorporate formative assessment into lesson plans. Scroll down for state-specific materials used during in-person training/workshop sessions.
General Materials
Resources
- Stepping Stones to Formative Assessment
- Lesson Revision with Formative Assessment
- Formative Assessment Process Graphic
- Formative Assessment Glossary
- Formative Assessment: An Enabler of Learning by Margaret Heritage
- Formative Assessment: An Enabler of Learning (with highlights) by Margaret Heritage
- Teaching Standards & Formative Assessment Matching Activity
Templates
- Lesson Planning Guide (3 columns)
- Lesson Planning Guide (4 columns)
- Formative Assessment Lesson Framework
Model Lesson Plans
Selected lessons
- How Were the Pyramids Built? ELA & History, Grade 6
- Introduction to Functions Mathematics, Grade 8
- Why Do Fireflies Glow? ELA & Science, Grade 8
Full units
Example frameworks for professional learning
State-Specific Resources
Colorado
Presentations & Handouts
- CO Lesson Planning Day 1 (CSAI)
- CO Lesson Planning Day 2 (CSAI)
- Status-Target-Plan Handout (CDE)
Training Materials
- CLOSE Reading Bill of Rights Lesson
- Plate Tectonics (Full lesson plan from USGS found here)
- Mathematics Used as Evidence
Kansas
Presentations & Training Materials
- KSDE Day 1 morning – Formative Assessment overview (MH)
- KSDE Day 2 afternoon – FARROP introduction (MH)
- KSDE Day 1 afternoon – Lesson Planning (SC & JPH)
- KSDE Day 2 morning/afternoon – Lesson Planning (SC & JPH)
- Lesson Planning Agenda
- Lesson Planning Icebreaker
KSDE Examples
Participants started these examples during the training workshop and agreed to share their first attempts with other teachers learning the formative assessment lesson planning process.
- Lesson Plan, World History, Grades 9-12
- Lesson Plan, ELA, Grade 11
- Lesson Planning Guide, ELA, Grade 6
- Lesson Planning Guide, ELA, Grade 8
- Lesson Planning Guide, Library/Media, Grade K
Arizona – June 2018
Presentation & Handouts
- Workshop Learning Goals and Success Criteria (handout)
- Lesson Planning Presentation Slides and Slide Deck
- FAI eReader Writing Tips for LGs and SC
Arizona – January 2019
Presentation & Handouts
- Introduction to Learning Goals and Success Criteria Presentation Slides
- Lesson Plan Feedback for Learning Goals and Success Criteria (reflection question handout)
- Lesson Scenario – ELA, Grade 12 (worksheet)
- New Tech Network’s Team Collaboration Checklist (handout)
- New Tech Network’s Individual Collaboration Rubric (handout)
- Formative Assessment Lesson Planning Framework (handout)
- The lesson planning framework is excerpted from the Lesson Revision with Formative Assessment resource.