Overview

Exemplars offers a wide range of professional development opportunities for mathematics, science and writing. Sessions are designed to meet the specific needs of teachers, team leaders and administrators in both schools and districts. Whether you are just getting started with Exemplars or have used it for years, we are confident that you and your students will benefit.

With an emphasis on hands-on experience where participants learn by doing, Exemplars professional development workshops and Institutes demonstrate how to use assessment results to guide instruction and improve student performance. The focus is on integrating real world, standards-based problem solving, inquiry-based science and student communication in the classroom.

Key components of our sessions include:

Standards-based tasks/inquiries
Rubrics
Student benchmark papers

Exemplars Workshop Facilitators

With extensive backgrounds in assessment, curriculum development, classroom teaching, higher education and technology, our instructors are knowledgeable about state and national standards, performance assessment, portfolios and using assessment information to improve student performance and classroom instruction.

"Using the information Deb taught us and the rubric, we set about scoring problems. The more we did, the more we wanted to do! Who would have thought that sitting for two days in a windowless room could be so wonderful. The time flew!"

B. Renoux,
Multiage Teacher