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Formative assessments with Pear Deck

Formative assessments with Pear Deck

From the course: Teacher Tips

Formative assessments with Pear Deck

- Hello, educators, and welcome to another week of 'Teacher Tips'. This week we're looking at Peardeck, which is a great tool for increasing Formative Assessments in the classroom. Formative Assessments, as I'm sure you're aware, are an essential part of student achievement. I really like how Robert Stakes describes Formative Assessments. He says that they're "the cook tasting "the soup to see what needs to be changed "before the guests taste the soup, "where we have our Summative Assessment". In the classroom, however, getting quick data to see how students are learning can be a real challenge, and that's where Peardeck can be a great tool to help check for student understanding and to build more Formative Assessments into your daily lessons. Now, Peardeck integrates seamlessly with Google Apps for Education, and if you're already logged into your Google account, there's no need to create a Peardeck account. Here in my web browser, I've already logged into my Google Apps for…

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