Formative Assessment: Better Questions, Deeper Learning

Presented by Ann Cunningham-Morris, Faculty, ASCD

Sponsored by ASCD

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Better Questions, Deeper Learning participants will consider what it means to incorporate rigor into the classroom and how they may use questioning strategies to engage students in deeper thinking. Effective classroom instruction encourages students to build thinking skills beyond those of simple recall and one of the most effective ways teachers can do so is through their questioning strategies. Student responses to questions can provide important information to teachers on what students understand and can do and how they think about and use different concepts.

Viewers of this session are:

• Able to define rigor and evaluate ways in which rigor may manifest in the classroom.
• Able to use questioning strategies to engage students in deeper thinking.

This recorded edWebinar is of interest to K-12 teachers and school and district leaders.

About the Presenter

Ann Cunningham-Morris is an independent consultant and ASCD faculty member who has served educators for over 40 years. During her career, she has been a director of professional learning for a non-profit education organization, district-level instructional administrator, school-based administrator, teacher leader and classroom teacher. Ann regularly facilitates webinars, coaching, and professional learning throughout the world in the areas of leadership development, strategic planning, system and program audits, curriculum development, designing effective professional learning programs, instructional leadership, instructional coaching/teacher leadership, formative assessment, instructional best practices, and equity best practices. She has written articles, blogs, and provided expert interviews on these topics for a variety of professional publications including ASCD Inservice, District Administrator, Curriculum Administrator, and the Journal of Staff Development. Ann is also co-author of the book, The Principal Influence: A Framework for Developing Leadership Capacity in Principals (ASCD, 2016).

She has presented sessions at many national conferences, including ASCD, ESEA, AASA, NASSP, NAESP and Learning Forward. She received a bachelor’s degree from the University of Georgia and a master’s degree in curriculum and instruction from Georgia State University. She has completed the Certificate of Advanced Studies program and post-graduate work in educational leadership at Illinois State University, the nonprofit executive leadership program at Georgetown University and most recently, a certificate in Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in the Workplace from the University of South Florida MUMA College of Business.

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