To start with becoming a Formative Certified Educator, you’ll be introduced to Formative’s Community Manager, along with a brief summary of the learning objectives, and how you can connect with other educators about Formative!

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Setting up your team for data driven conversations, whether you’re an individual free user or a partner user with extended features, supports student growth through powerful professional learning communities. If you are an individual user, consider bringing your Formative data to conversations with the team.

When your team is creating and assigning common assessments in Formative, you can completely customize your assessments to meet your learning targets, and by tagging your questions to standards you can view student’s individual areas for growth on the standard level. This enables you and your team members to provide targeted reinstruction to close gaps and make the most out of your instructional minutes.

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Formative is flexible by design, and is used by teachers all over the world in a variety of formats. Not only is it a powerful tool for formative assessment, but it allows you to provide differentiated learning activities, projects, digital portfolios, and more! Integrated Formative assessment questions, or checks for understanding, within your lessons provide you the information needed to make changes to instruction, or form a small group for reteaching, but when you do this in Formative, you’ll receive comprehensive data - no more pulling popsicle sticks and getting scattered feedback on your teaching. With your formative assessment questions built into your lesson and Formative’s live data, you’ll be able to make informed decisions quickly!

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In this final portion of our learning we will be learning about how to use your data to form groups for differentiated instruction, sending powerful feedback that makes your assessment formative, and an upcoming release - progress reports! By looking at how to use the student data you receive, you can complete the formative feedback loop, by providing students with their next steps on their path to continue to accelerate student growth. Progress reports will provide a holistic view of both whole class and individual student progress, all calculated by the standard, to know your student’s by name and need, enabling you to accelerate student learning through formative assessment.

We’ll conclude our learning with the capstone project, found here.‍

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In the capstone you will create a Formative to use with a planned lesson, including reflection on how the data received will inform your teaching. You can use whatever lesson planning format you prefer, and you can also submit a summary of how the Formative will be used.

Once you submit the Capstone project, the lesson and reflection a Formative team member will review all your submitted materials and application and will reach out to let you know you are now a Certified Formative Educator!

Please allow 2 weeks for our team to complete the review and certification process.

For any questions please reach out to Support@formative.com

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