Mindful Assessment: The 6 Essential Fluencies of Innovative Learning, Aug/2016

Educators must focus assessment on mindfulness and feedback, framing assessment around six fluencies students need to cultivate for 21st century success.

It is time to rethink the relationship between teaching and learning and assess the crucial skills students need to succeed in the 21st century. The authors assert that educators must focus assessment on mindfulness and feedback for improvement, framing assessment around six fluencies students need to cultivate. The book provides scenarios, lessons, activities, and assessment rubrics.

1. Discover the essential fluencies and skills students need for success in the 21st century.
2. Examine different kinds of assessments and their focuses, strengths, and weaknesses.
3. Gain assessment rubrics for evaluating student’s skills in the fluencies.
4. Access sample lessons and projects that support the fluencies.
5. Employ the Solution Fluency Activity Planner to help students develop the fluencies theyll need to succeed in the 21st century.

About The Authors:

Lee Watanabe Crockett is an author, speaker, designer, inspirational thinker, and the creative force behind some of the most exciting transformations in education happening worldwide. He believes in creating balance in the reality of a digital present and future.

Lee is the creative force behind the Solution Fluency Activity Planner, a social network that has created a culture of collaboration for educators around the world to share and source unit plans that align to the structure of a modern learning environment.

In addition to creating digital learning tools for education, Lee has adapted his own corporate experience into a dynamic, team-based training model. Lee serves his clients by sensing trend, identifying opportunity, and pivoting in response to adversity.

Lee is coauthor of Understanding the Digital Generation, The Digital Diet, Living on the Future Edge, and the bestseller Literacy Is Not Enough. He continues to work with educators and corporations in several countries, helping them build relevance and establish a culture of excellence.

Andrew Churches is a teacher, head of faculty, and information and communications technology enthusiast. He teaches at Kristin School in Auckland, New Zealand, a school with a BYOD program that allows students to use personal mobile devices and laptops in the classroom.

Andrew presents keynotes and workshops at conferences around the world on digital citizenship, project-based learning and 21st-century fluencies, digital pedagogies and teaching, and assessment and learning in the 21st century. He is vice president of the Global Digital Citizen Foundation, which develops 21st-century approaches to teaching and learning.

In 2009, Andrew was a finalist in the Microsoft Distinguished Educators Awards. He has been a member of the advisory board for the Australia and New Zealand edition of the Horizon report, the only secondary/primary school teacher on a board of 32 educational experts. In 2012, he was named a Learning Commons Visionary by the editors of Teacher Librarian: The Journal for School Library Professionals. He is a Class of 2013 Apple Distinguished Educator and was accepted into the National Aspiring Principals Programme for 2016.

An edublogger, wiki author, and innovator, Andrew believes that to prepare students for the future, we must prepare them for change and teach them to question, think, adapt, and modify.

He holds a bachelor’s degree in zoology from Massey University and a diploma in teaching at secondary level from Auckland College of Education, New Zealand.