Assessment to Support Student Growth:
The Link Between Assessment and
Instruction
Carol
is a reviewer for eight journals and a
section editor for one. She is author
of over 100 articles, book chapters,
books, and other professional
development materials. For ASCD, she
has authored How to Differentiate
Instruction in Mixed Ability
Classrooms, The Differentiated
Classroom: Responding to the Needs of
All Learners, Providing Leadership for
Differentiated Schools and Classrooms,
the facilitator’s guide for the video
staff development sets called
Differentiating Instruction, and At
Work in the Differentiated Classroom,
as well as a professional inquiry kit
on differentiation and most recently
co-authored a book with Jay McTighe
titled Integrating Differentiated
Instruction and Understanding by
Design: Connected Content and Kids. For
Corwin Press, she is co-author of The
Parallel Curriculum Model: A Design to
Develop High Potential and Challenge
High Ability Learners. Carol’s books on
differentiation have been translated
into eight languages. She works
throughout the U.S. and abroad with
teachers whose goal is to develop more
responsive heterogeneous
classrooms.
What: Differentiated
Instruction
Who: Administrators and Faculty, All Grades
When: Saturday, September 20th, 2008
Time: 8:30 am to 4:30 pm (Registration opens at 7:30 am)
*Lunch will be provided.*
Where: New Sanno Hotel
Cost: Japan ASCD Members- 10000 yen or $100
Non-Members- 12000 yen or $120
Directions:
Register online by clicking on the Register Now! button.
The registration deadline is September 15th, 2008.
**If you are unable to attend the event for which you've registered, we encourage you to send an alternate in your place, as registration is transferable, otherwise a 15% cancellation fee will be charged. No cancellations or refund requests will be accepted within the week prior to the event.**
Who: Administrators and Faculty, All Grades
When: Saturday, September 20th, 2008
Time: 8:30 am to 4:30 pm (Registration opens at 7:30 am)
*Lunch will be provided.*
Where: New Sanno Hotel
Cost: Japan ASCD Members- 10000 yen or $100
Non-Members- 12000 yen or $120
Directions:
Register online by clicking on the Register Now! button.
The registration deadline is September 15th, 2008.
**If you are unable to attend the event for which you've registered, we encourage you to send an alternate in your place, as registration is transferable, otherwise a 15% cancellation fee will be charged. No cancellations or refund requests will be accepted within the week prior to the event.**
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Carol
Ann Tomlinson’s career as an educator
includes 21 years as a public school
teacher, including 12 years as a
program administrator of special
services for struggling and advanced
learners. She was Virginia’s Teacher of
the Year in 1974. More recently, she
has been a faculty member at the
University of Virginia’s Curry School
of Education, where she is currently
Professor of Educational Leadership,
Foundations and Policy. Also at U.Va.,
she is Co-Director of the University's
Institutes on Academic Diversity. Carol
was named Outstanding Professor at
Curry School of Education in 2004.
Special interests throughout her career
have included curriculum and
instruction for struggling learners and
advanced learners, effective
instruction in heterogeneous settings,
and encouraging creative and critical
thinking in the classroom.
At its
core, effective teaching is an
interaction between several elements
that are interrelated. Clear and
compelling learning goals set the
course for the classroom.
On-going assessment of student
status related to those goals provides
the teacher with the necessary
information to plan instruction.
Delivery of instruction can then meet
students where they are and move them
forward to, and hopefully beyond, the
content goals. The teacher, of
course, is the architect of all three
elements, as he or she is of the
classroom learning environment which
impacts and is impacted by the other
three elements. In this session,
we'll examine the roles of each of the
four elements, with particular emphasis
on the role of assessment in improving
teaching and learning.
