Additional TC resources for teaching

All assessments can play a vital role in three areas: (a) improving learning during each lesson; (b) keeping educators and students focused on where they’re going; and (c) shifting the instructional conversation to student results.

To generate student conversations about the many different ways a single school subject can relate to common experiences and help students understand what characterizes a “field of inquiry.”

This sample chemistry activity is designed with the following NGSS (science) standards in mind—the activity will help contextualize later conversations about these standards throughout the year.