Standard Eight: Assessment of Student Learning - The teacher understands, uses, and interprets formal and informal assessment strategies to evaluate and advance student performance and to determine program effectiveness.
Standard eight, assessment of student learning, is a tool you must use every day being summative or formative assessment. Using assessment right, will allow you to understand what your students need fully. You assess the students everyday and must be able to use assessment to guide your next steps within lesson planning and student learning.
Formative Assessment Plan
Formative Assessment Plan
- During an assessment course, I was able to create an assessment plan for for my integrated weather unit. This assessment plan was a large graphic organizer in showing how I would assess different learning levels of students with the same ideas and topics presented that day. This plan helped me understand how to organize my activities and take evidence from those activities. This project truly made me reflect on how to use assessment to communicate to students, but also use various forms of activities to create different assessment strategies.
Fourth Grade Pre-assessment
- I gave my fourth grade students a pre-assessment test for their math reporting topics for trimester three. I gave them this so I knew where all my students were at based on this pre-assessment. I was able to build off of this assessment for the rest of the trimester, and focus on what the students struggled in. I knew that certain areas didn't need as much time as the other areas, so I was able to adapt and adjust my lesson to tailor to my students needs based on this assessment.
Class Flow
- While being at a 21st- century school, we had an in-service meeting that helped the teachers enhance their technology use within their classroom. Class flow is a great web site that interacts with the students with and iPad or a Netbook. The students are able to submit their answers to me receive a quick assessment to help guide my instruction to tailor to the needs of the students in that group. The students became engaged and excited to learn certain subjects while using Class Flow.