What I learned on Twitter

Recently, I’ve peeked into twitter and found a wealth of helpful articles and knowledgeable connections in the field of education. Here, I have compiled a few of the things I learned this week from the many excellent educators and writers there. If you are a twitter user, don’t forget to follow these tremendous thinkers and teachers….

Formative Assessments: An Updated Approach

I am always seeking ways to best collect, analyze, and utilize data to better serve my students. I’ve used exit cards, reviewed assessments, marked down anecdotal data, compared performance to benchmarks, etc. These strategies helped me to broadly identify struggling and excelling students so I could reteach, provide readiness or enrichment activities.  In my last iteration…