Assessment

Blog #4:
Reflection Prompts

1. I will use the assessment page of my digital portfolio during my first teaching block to improve strategies for teaching students with special needs and how to assess these students. I want to be able to use modifications, accommodations or alternative programs so that students can succeed during instruction and assessment/ evaluation. I want to ensure that all my students are given the support and resources that they need to succeed. I am in a class that has many students with IEPs that need modifications or accommodations with their instruction and assessment. I can use assistive technology tools such as text-to-speech with one of my students that needs support with reading and writing. With this software, texts can be read to him and he can speak to the program and it will write what he is saying. Hopefully this will also help him improve his current level of reading and writing which is set at around grade 3. I can also use Google Classroom for my students which I can use for students with IEPs who lack organizational skills. Google Classroom makes all worksheets available to students that they can access at any time at home which will reduce the number of lost worksheets in their binder. This is also beneficial for other students because they can access and use the services provided by Google to help them in their school work independently or by working collaboratively with their peers. 

2. One of my professional learning goals from my AER Strategy form that I will explore in Block 1 is "I will learn about ensuring effective and appropriate instructional and assessment practices that meet the unique needs of diverse students so that students can benefit from student engagement and improved student learning through things like assessment." Some strategies I can meet these goals are: 

*I can ask for help from my associate teacher and my colleagues to give my students the resources they need. 

*I can create an environment where all students feel valued and confident and have the courage to take risks and make mistakes. 

*I can use effective instructional strategies to meet the needs of diverse students and keep them engaged. 

*I can facilitate growth in my students by giving them constant descriptive feedback through an ongoing assessment process.

*I can provide students with multiple ways to showcase their learning so that it meets the unique needs of my diverse students. 

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Blog #3:
AER Strategies for the Growing Success Policies Document 

Here are my professional learning goals and strategies for meeting these goals. I found annotated resources that will help me implement these strategies. 

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Blog #2

L-What I learned about…

ASSESSMENT, EVALUATION and REPORTING 

I am writing this post 5 weeks later and I almost can’t believe that assessment is almost over! This course presented more of an overview of what assessment, evaluation and reporting are and how they work. While 6 weeks is no where near long enough to explore this huge aspect of teaching, I still learned a lot regardless!

Here is an updated version of my KWL chart that I started back in week 1. Now that the course is almost over, I was able to fill out the “L” section of the chart and happily surprised myself with the amount of information I learned in a short amount of time!

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Blog #1: 

K- What I know

W- What I want to learn about…

ASSESSMENT, EVALUATION and REPORTING 

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        On the first day of my assessment class, we were asked to write a blog entry about what we know and what we want to learn about assessment. Here is a KWL chart of my understanding of assessment as it stands in week 1. 

(What I learned will be determined in later weeks of my assessment course!)