Home | How It Works | Stats Login | Register         Case: Same Formative and Summative Assessments for All Teachers With the growing concerns of the new End of Course testing requirements, administrators and the Instructional Lead Teacher at a high school have proposed that all teachers of the same grade level and content area must have the same formative and summative assessments. Their grade books will have to match regarding the titles of the assessments (daily and test grades). The Math teachers are concerned, but they know that this can be worked out. The English Language Arts teachers are the most concerned, because this takes the art of teaching away from them. The ELA teachers have common Unit Tests that are given every 4.5 weeks; however, their other assessment grades (vocabulary tests/quizzes, the short pieces of literature they read, and the activities they create for the literature) are different. The ELA teachers believe that they should be able to have the ability to create lessons, activities, and assessments that suit their teaching style and their students' learning styles. Is the freedom of their craft being taken away? How should these teachers address their concerns? Solution: (Rates are posted for this solution!) Have the teachers rotate creating the assessments so each teacher gets the opportunity to do so.