Short for web-based seminar, a webinar is a presentation, lecture, workshop or seminar that is transmitted over the web. The key feature of a webinar is its interactive elements - the ability to give, receive and discuss information, typically through slide show presentations, streaming video, VoIP, whiteboard and text chat.
Focus: Assessment
A Guide to Support Implementation: Essential Conditions was developed by a provincial working group of education partners committed to realizing positive change in Alberta's schools and classrooms.
Focus: Assessment, Career and Technology Studies, Differentiated Instruction, English Language Learners, Fine Arts, FNMI (First Nations, Métis and Inuit), French, International Languages & Culture, Leadership
with Deb McFarlane
The relationship between student engagement and student learning is drawing the attention of educators across Alberta and Canada. As the benefits of quality classroom assessment become more widely known, teachers are working hard to integrate related strategies into their instructional practice.
In this three-part webinar series, we will explore how student engagement and assessment connect and contribute to student learning. In the first session, a rationale for a clear and consistent focus on classroom practices that affect student engagement will be presented to create a shared understanding about student engagement using findings from current research and literature. The second and third sessions will include practical classroom applications of assessment of and for learning strategies and discussion about their power and promise in facilitating student engagement.
Focus: Assessment
with Sherry Bennett
This webinar series provides support in four key areas of assessment practice. Materials from the AAC website are shared that are available to support ongoing study and development work at the jurisdiction level.
Part 4: Differentiated Assessment
Differentiated instruction and assessment are essential in supporting student learning. Learner outcomes from a variety of subjects and grades are used to model a process for making decisions in regard to differentiated assessment - what can be differentiated, what should be differentiated and what should not be differentiated.
Focus: Assessment, Differentiated Instruction, Leadership
with Sherry Bennett, AAC
Quality assessment practice is an ongoing professional responsibility. This webinar series will provide you with support in four key areas of assessment practice.
Part 1: Credible Criteria:
The Cornerstone of Assessment Teachers will only be able to make valid judgements of what students know and can do when their assessments are appropriately aligned with the learner outcomes. This webinar will focus on some key principles to be aware of when creating criteria for assessment and designing assessment tasks.
Focus: Assessment, Leadership
with Sherry Bennett, AAC
This webinar series provides you with support in four key areas of assessment practice. Materials from the AAC website will be shared that are available to support ongoing study and development work at the jurisdiction level.
Part 2: Gathering Evidence of Learning
Embedded within the learner outcomes are the clues that help teachers make decisions as to appropriate assessment strategies and tools. Samples from a variety of subjects and grades will be provided as models that can be adapted to specific assessment contexts.
Focus: Assessment, Leadership
with Sherry Bennett, AAC
This webinar series provides you with support in four key areas of assessment practice. Materials from the AAC website will be shared that are available to support ongoing study and development work at the jurisdiction level.
Part 3: Effective Assessment for Learning: Moving Beyond the Strategies
Gains in student learning are most likely to be realized when assessment decisions are focused on the principles of assessment for learning. Strategies focus on the "what‟ and the "how‟ - the procedural aspects, whereas the principles deal with "why‟ particular strategies can be effective. In this webinar, you will explore how the principles of assessment for learning can help reduce resistance to the use of assessment for learning strategies and pave the way for improved student learning.
Focus: Assessment, Leadership
with Sherry Bennett, AAC
This webinar series examines the principles of sound assessment practice on which rubrics must be designed in order for rubrics to achieve the intended goal of supporting student learning using the AAC resource "Building Better Rubrics".
Session 1 introduces you to the key purpose of rubrics and elements of rubric design.
Focus: Assessment
with Sherry Bennett, AAC
This webinar series examines the principles of sound assessment practice on which rubrics must be designed in order for rubrics to achieve the intended goal of supporting student learning using the AAC resource "Building Better Rubrics"
Session 2 highlights common flaws in rubric design that interfere with their intended purpose.
Focus: Assessment
with Sherry Bennett, AAC
This webinar series examines the principles of sound assessment practice on which rubrics must be designed in order for rubrics to achieve the intended goal of supporting student learning using the AAC resource "Building Better Rubrics".
Session 3 provides tools to assist in creating quality rubrics.
Focus: Assessment
with Sherry Bennett, AAC
This webinar series examines the principles of sound assessment practice on which rubrics must be designed in order for rubrics to achieve the intended goal of supporting student learning using the AAC resource "Building Better Rubrics".
Session 4 emphasizes the role of rubrics within the larger picture of supporting student learning.
Focus: Assessment
with Marian Small
For some students, success just happens. For most students, we need to make it happen. We'll discuss a twelve-step program that will improve the mathematical environment and opportunity for success for every student in your class, whether struggling or thriving, and for you, too.
Focus: Assessment, Mathematics
with Sherry Bennett, AAC
Unit assessment plans in grades 6, 7, 8, and 9 social studies model how to anchor a unit with performance assessment, and then to design instruction and formative assessment backwards from the end goal.
* Conversation guide available
Focus: Assessment, Social Studies
with Catherine Coyne
This session provides a definition of assessment for learning and addresses the following questions: What does it look like? Why is it important? And How can it be used to improve student learning?
Focus: Assessment, Social Studies
AlbertaPD is a project designed to support the professional learning of classroom teachers in the areas of differentiating instruction and assessment for diverse learners, based on the Alberta Education resource Making a Difference. It is offered by a collaborative community of PD providers via various distributed learning technologies.
Focus: Assessment, Beginner Teachers, Differentiated Instruction
These workshop materials include a facilitator guide, facilitator resources and participant handouts and are intended for district leaders to lead conversations/workshops about basic principles of classroom assessment and how assessment practices can support building French language proficiency within the French as a Second Language Program of Studies. The materials were intended to be used in a workshop format but can be adapted for your context and purposes.
Focus: Assessment, French
Everyday Assessment Tools for Teachers
AAC is a recognized education partner in the province of Alberta - an independent voice, providing informed responses to assessment topics that impact student learning.
Find out more about the purpose statements that guide our work.
Focus: Assessment
with Sherry Bennett
Assessment in Alberta has as much, if not more, to do with teaching and learning as it has to do with grading and reporting. It is essential to establish links among curriculum, instruction, and assessment if we are to support students in their learning.
This webinar addresses the following four essential questions.
Post-webinar support documents are available to support professional learning teams with ongoing reflection, conversation, and learning.
This webinar was developed by the Alberta Assessment Consortium (AAC) in partnership with the Edmonton Regional Learning Consortium (ERLC) and Alberta Education. The materials used in this webinar are from the AAC collection.
Focus: Assessment, Beginner Teachers
Ken O'Connor Webinar Series
Ken O'Connor's book, A Repair Kit for Grading: 15 Fixes for Broken Grades, explores the issues involved in sound grading practices, and provides practical strategies and alternatives to help change how students are graded. Ken believes that student grades should reflect what students have actually learned. In this series of six webinars based on his book A Repair Kit for Grading: 15 Fixes for Broken Grades, Ken O'Connor explores what teachers can do to make grades support learning. He describes grading practices that result in accurate and meaningful communications about student learning and leads discussions around implementing these fixes in local contexts.
Focus: Assessment
with Aaron Ball
This two part session examines the research and practical applications of video games as learning tools. You will search for, play, and examine online games to find their fit in the Alberta Curriculum. You will learn to evaluate games and build assessment pieces to help you incorporate video games as contemporary tools in your 21st century classroom.
Focus: Assessment, Differentiated Instruction, Literacy / English Language Arts, Mathematics, Social Studies, Technology Integration