Assessments are the products teachers use to determine two key components of the teaching and learning process: what students have learned and how effectively the teacher has instructed. Assessment strategies are an important element of effective teaching. Moreover, teaching students strategies to be successful in various assessments increases students’ confidence and in return provides better assessment results.
Identify the grade level and content area you are focusing on, and include the following in your presentation:
An overview of formative and summative assessments in your content area
Description of how you embed engaging learning experiences into the classroom that provide multiple ways for students to demonstrate knowledge and skills
Explanation of how content area assessments are aligned with learning objectives
Explanation of how assessments are administered in an unbiased, fair manner and account for students’ individual differences
Description of the format of four content-specific assessments you will use during the school year (two formative and two summative)
Study skills, preparation, and execution students should use to succeed on the assessments
Discussion of how you design instruction to advance individual learning, address students’ strengths and needs, so all students in your classroom are successful
Time since the beginning of a branding campaign. This is relevant to the places, where an official branding campaign is being run. Here might be interesting to study the dynamics of different macroeconomic and brand-related indicators since the beginning of the campaign.
2) Time as a certain season of a year. This idea might be relevant to small and rural places, as well as to touristic destinations. For such kind of places time of the year affects the supply and demand equilibrium, employment and consumption.
3) Brand image in time.
4) Past, present and future. This is relevant to the linear idea of time.
5) Speed of time, rhythms of place. This idea might be studies through the concept of rhythm analysis (Lefebvre, 2004).
6) Time for activities and daily routine. It can be relevant for the stakeholders to evaluate their time for daily routines at the place, which can have impact on the quality of life.
7) Time in terms of investment attractiveness. This aspect is relevant to businesses in the city, who might see time as the investment horizon.
8) Interruptions of time. Time can be interrupted by both positive and negative events (catastrophes, mega events, festivals, wars, etc.).
Russia is the country with a diverse culture, polarised economic development of regions and cities. In Russian Federation there are 222327 municipalities that includes 1784 municipal districts, 527 urban districts, 19 internal urban districts, 267 internal urban territories, 1589 urban settlements and 18101 rural settlements. One of the features that can characterise the specificity of regional development in the country is highly polarised economic structure. Due to global processes, large cities attract resourced and different types of capital, whereas places of a smaller scale have to struggle in the competitive environment suffering from high migration out from places, demographic and social problems. However, these big cities also act as leading actors at the global arena competing as centers of innovations, finance and main touristic destinations as well. To succeed in these competitive games places need to apply contemporary instruments and approaches to their development strategies. Place branding in Russian towns and cities has become a popular approach to regional development since the 2000s (Britvin et al, 2016). Almost every 5th town or city in the country has tried to