Meeting the Challenge

Exemplars professional development workshops provide teachers with a firm foundation to get started with standards-based assessment and instruction. Our sessions give teachers the skills they need to help their students become successful in problem solving for both standardized tests and constructed response items.

Teachers leave our workshops confident to use rubrics and anchor papers to assess student performance and link assessment results to curriculum and instruction. They are able to explore problem solving in their classrooms to help their students become better mathematical and science problem solvers and communicators. Additionally, our workshops assist districts as they work toward professional development that generates immediate and sustained results.

All our workshops are:

Developed in four modules; they are easily customized to meet the needs and experience of individual schools and districts
Run by experienced instructors familiar with state and national standards
Designed for elementary and secondary levels uniquely

Math, Science and Reading, Writing, Research workshops focus on:

Using rubrics and anchor papers to assess student performance in achieving standards
Linking assessment results to curriculum and instruction
Encouraging students to explain their strategies, justify their solutions, and look for alternative strategies and solutions
Assessing students' abilities to apply their skills in problem-solving situations
Using appropriate problems
Building on students' prior knowledge

How Do I Sign Up?

Call for details... dates fill up quickly. All workshops can be for one, two, three or more days. Think about the number of days necessary, the number of participants, their grade levels and subject areas (math, science or RWR). In order for teachers get the most of out of their session, it is recommended the number of participants not exceed 35. Back to top

"Students are amazed at how they can lift their levels of achievement by following the rubric and knowing what is necessary for all levels."

A Title I Teacher