198. Frequently Asked Questions about Assessment: Featuring Tom Schimmer

This week’s guest, Tom Schimmer, dives into the frequent struggles and misperceptions of assessment practices. Tom provides excellent strategies to help provide feedback to your students and how to complete this important strategy in a timely manner.     In this episode, we discuss: Frequent Mistakes in the World of Grading, Rubrics, and Assessments Student Investment through Assessment And his Newly Released Book, Concise Answers to Frequently Asked Questions about Assessment and Grading About Tom Schimmer: Tom Schimmer is an independent education author, speaker, and consultant from Vancouver, BC. Over the course of his career he has been a classroom teacher, school administrator, and district level leader. Tom is an internationally recognized leader and expert in the areas of assessment, grading, RTI, and educational leadership. He has delivered both keynote and workshop sessions at several national and international conferences. As well, Tom has worked directly with schools and school districts throughout Canada, the United States, Vietnam, China, Myanmar, Thailand, Japan, South Korea, Qatar, Bahrain, India, the U.A.E., the U.K., Russia, Singapore, Spain, Kuwait, Ethiopia, Kenya, South Africa, and Nigeria. He is the author & co-author of six books, including best-seller Grading from the Inside Out: Bringing accuracy to student assessment through a standards-based mindset, and his latest release, Growing tomorrow’s citizens in today’s classrooms: Assessing seven critical competencies. Follow Tom Schimmer: Website: www.tomschimmer.com Twitter: @TomSchimmer; @TomSchimmerPod Instagram: @tomschimmerpodcast Facebook: Schimmer Education Linkedin: Tom Schimmer YouTube: Tom Schimmer Podcast https://www.amazon.com/Frequently-Questions-Assessment-Challenging-Effectively/dp/1954631057?crid=2VKKZOWFCXMTW&keywords=Tom+schimmer&qid=1656680090&sprefix=tom+schimmer%2Caps%2C128&sr=8-10&linkCode=ll1&tag=aspirewebsite-20&linkId=57a8ec95deacec1661b2ead47a7f5497&ref_=as_li_ss_tl https://www.amazon.com/Grading-Inside-Out-Assessment-Standards-Based/dp/1936763850?crid=2VKKZOWFCXMTW&keywords=Tom+schimmer&qid=1656680090&sprefix=tom+schimmer%2Caps%2C128&sr=8-2&linkCode=ll1&tag=aspirewebsite-20&linkId=9abcee3d38ffccd93c6eeaba54abc051&ref_=as_li_ss_tl https://www.amazon.com/Essential-Assessment-Achievement-Classroom-Understanding/dp/1943874492?crid=2VKKZOWFCXMTW&keywords=Tom+schimmer&qid=1656680090&sprefix=tom+schimmer%2Caps%2C128&sr=8-5&linkCode=ll1&tag=aspirewebsite-20&linkId=b0c60b1bc422ecbe7b1ae5201150a944&ref_=as_li_ss_tl [caption id="attachment_3508" align="alignnone" width="1024"] Aspire: The Leadership Development Podcast Swag, Joshua Stamper, Teach Better[/caption] NEW Aspire Swag with Discount Code: ASPIRE  Tee-Shirts and Drinkware: ASPIRE: The Leadership Development Podcast   This post contains affiliate links. When you make a purchase through these links, The Aspire Podcast gets a small percentage of the sale at no extra cost to you. Need a Presenter for a conference or school PD? Contact Joshua Stamper  for presentations on Restorative Practices, Leadership Development, and Innovative campus systems. Watch my session on Trauma Informed, restorative and social emotional practices at www.teachsummit.com/stamper   Follow the Host, Joshua Stamper: Contact: https://joshstamper.com/contact/ Twitter: www.twitter.com/Joshua__Stamper Instagram: www.instagram.com/joshua__stamper Linkedin: www.linkedin.com/in/joshua-stamper Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AspirePodcast Subscribe: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/aspire-the-leadership-development-podcast/id1384210762?mt=2   Aspire to Lead made it to the Best New Education Books I'm happy to announce that my book, "Aspire to Lead", made it to BookAuthority's Best New Education Books. [caption id="attachment_3718" align="alignnone" width="1024"] Aspire to Lead, Joshua Stamper, Book Authority Award, Best new book[/caption] BookAuthority collects and ranks the best books in the world, and it is a great honor to get this kind of recognition. Thank you for all your support! The book is available for purchase on Amazon. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1953852386/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1953852386&linkCode=as2&tag=aspirewebsite-20&linkId=0d9c336e3db6ab16cbb08421ef3e4175 Review the Podcast I want to give a huge shout out to those who have taken the time to provide a review on Apple, Spotify or any other podcast platform. It truly means the world to me that you would take the 30- 90 seconds to share how the podcast has positively impacted you or why other educators should check out the show. [caption id="attachment_3022" align="alignnone" width="1024"] Teach Better Podcast Network, Aspire: The Leadership Development Podcast[/caption]