A student finishes your unit test. Two weeks later, ask them what they learned. Crickets.
That’s not a student problem. It’s an assessment problem. Multiple choice checks what students can recall. It can’t show you what they can actually do with it.
This workshop shows you how to build assessments that test thinking. Put the colonists on trial. Curate a museum exhibit. Record a podcast episode that takes a stance. Same unit, same standards, a much better window into what your students understand.
What’s inside
Why multiple choice isn’t enough. Especially when you’re building a culture of inquiry.
The six facets. The building blocks of a really good assessment.
From EQ to assessment. How to use your unit’s big ideas to build an assessment that matches.
Running it in the room. Tips for planning a unit that actually prepares students for the final task.
Your resource library
Six-Facet Idea Bank with assessment ideas for ELA, history, government, psych and econ
Ready-to-run Mock Trial, Museum Exhibit and Podcast Episode templates
A unit planning template that ties your question to your assessment
A printable workbook for anyone who needs to write it out on paper
How it works
Everything lives in one Google Doc with video walkthroughs. Watch it in one sitting or one module at a time. Make a copy of the templates and use them in your next unit.
Made for high school teachers, especially history and social studies. The templates bend to fit ELA, psych and econ too
A student finishes your unit test. Two weeks later, ask them what they learned. Crickets.
That’s not a student problem. It’s an assessment problem. Multiple choice checks what students can recall. It can’t show you what they can actually do with it.
This workshop shows you how to build assessments that test thinking. Put the colonists on trial. Curate a museum exhibit. Record a podcast episode that takes a stance. Same unit, same standards, a much better window into what your students understand.
What’s inside
Why multiple choice isn’t enough. Especially when you’re building a culture of inquiry.
The six facets. The building blocks of a really good assessment.
From EQ to assessment. How to use your unit’s big ideas to build an assessment that matches.
Running it in the room. Tips for planning a unit that actually prepares students for the final task.
Your resource library
Six-Facet Idea Bank with assessment ideas for ELA, history, government, psych and econ
Ready-to-run Mock Trial, Museum Exhibit and Podcast Episode templates
A unit planning template that ties your question to your assessment
A printable workbook for anyone who needs to write it out on paper
How it works
Everything lives in one Google Doc with video walkthroughs. Watch it in one sitting or one module at a time. Make a copy of the templates and use them in your next unit.
Made for high school teachers, especially history and social studies. The templates bend to fit ELA, psych and econ too