Assessment Leadership in the International School

LISBON, PORTUGAL
17 - 23 June 2024
Facilitators: Lauren Mehrbach and Sarah Fleming

ONLINE
3 - 9 July 2024
Facilitator: Melissa Schaub

Hear what our participants have to say about the course: Nancy Jenkins; Joe Lumsden

Listen to Lauren Mehrbach answer the question: “Why should you take this course?”

Wide-ranging research suggests that effective assessment practices can dramatically improve student learning. A comprehensive assessment process, which outlines policies and practices for determining the extent of student learning as well as promoting it, is an essential component of an effective school and one which many international schools are lacking. How will such a powerful process come to be? It takes bold, courageous school leaders with the highest levels of assessment literacy and the leadership skills to design, implement and monitor with rigor.

Learning Goals

  • Explore and define what is meant by ‘assessment’, its ultimate purposes and it relationship to curriculum

  • Become more fully aware of why assessment practices are still changing, including practicing with some of the key learnings of the last decade regarding assessment

  • Redesign assessment practices on a broad scale to harness the power of artifical intelligence

  • Identify and develop skills for leading the four major categories of assessment in international schools including both internal and external

  • Confront the assessment practices that are harmful to learning and explore how to lead the school away from these practices

  • Engage with the most controversial assessment practices in international schools and explore means of addressing them

  • Practice intersecting learning evidence with the additional three sources of evidence to uncover ‘root cause’ for why learning is or is not happening

  • Explore and practice the key leadership strategies leading to the design of an effective and sustainable school-wide assessment plan that supports maximum student learning

  • Apply principles of social justice and anti-racism across all facets of assessment leadership

  • Apply all of the above in the hybrid and online learning environments.

In order to access course materials, participants are required to bring a laptop computer with wireless internet capability and appropriate adapters to this course.

The curriculum for all PTC courses is rooted in the ‘Standards for International School Principals’ and created using our design principles.