Standard Seven | Assessment
The competent teacher understands and uses appropriate formative and summative assessments for determining student needs, monitoring student progress, measuring student growth, and evaluating student outcomes. The teacher makes decisions driven by data about curricular and instructional effectiveness and adjusts practices to meet the needs of each student.
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Artifact I:
Reflection:
Performance Indicators – The competent teacher:
F. effectively uses appropriate technologies to conduct assessments, monitor performance, and assess student progress;
This artifact is a lesson plan about Irish Immigrants in the United States that addresses Standard Seven, Assessment. In this lesson plan students will create video journal entries as if there were Irish Immigrants in the United States. This assignment uses technology (flip video cameras) to show what students have learned. This helps me as an educator to conduct assessments, monitor performance and assess the progress of my students. In this assignment students can tell about immigrant experiences in the United States. This requires them to research and show what they know about immigrants, especially Irish immigrants in the United States. This shows that I as an educator can come up with creative assessments using various technology to show the progress of students in my classroom.
F. effectively uses appropriate technologies to conduct assessments, monitor performance, and assess student progress;
This artifact is a lesson plan about Irish Immigrants in the United States that addresses Standard Seven, Assessment. In this lesson plan students will create video journal entries as if there were Irish Immigrants in the United States. This assignment uses technology (flip video cameras) to show what students have learned. This helps me as an educator to conduct assessments, monitor performance and assess the progress of my students. In this assignment students can tell about immigrant experiences in the United States. This requires them to research and show what they know about immigrants, especially Irish immigrants in the United States. This shows that I as an educator can come up with creative assessments using various technology to show the progress of students in my classroom.
Artifact 2:
Reflection:
Performance Indicators The competent teacher:
C. involves students in self-assessment activities to help them become aware of their strengths and needs and encourages them to establish goals for learning;
This is a writing rubric and checklist that addresses Standard Seven. I feel that rubrics are very beneficial tools for students and they enable the teacher to assess a student and allow the student to assess their work themselves. This rubric is specifically for writing assignments, an area where many students struggle, so I feel that this is a rubric that can be used often for Social Studies writing assignments. These materials show students how they will be graded and shows what they need to include in their assignments and what kind of understanding they need to show in their writing assignments. Using a the checklist students can see, even before they turn the assignment in, what they need to include in their assignment before they turn it in and also can show them what they need to add, fix and what they have done well. This checklist can be used so a student can self assess their work before turning it in even if it is a rough draft, and it also show them what and where they need to improve. Rubrics can show students where they have strength which can really encourage them to do what they need to do to improve in different areas. I would use this rubric to pinpoint difficulties my students have with writing and then I would have conferences with my students to help them see what they are doing well and where they can improve. Student self assessment is a sign of teacher growth because it is showing that a teacher can teach students how to independently learn and grow which is a skill that students will use for a lifetime.
C. involves students in self-assessment activities to help them become aware of their strengths and needs and encourages them to establish goals for learning;
This is a writing rubric and checklist that addresses Standard Seven. I feel that rubrics are very beneficial tools for students and they enable the teacher to assess a student and allow the student to assess their work themselves. This rubric is specifically for writing assignments, an area where many students struggle, so I feel that this is a rubric that can be used often for Social Studies writing assignments. These materials show students how they will be graded and shows what they need to include in their assignments and what kind of understanding they need to show in their writing assignments. Using a the checklist students can see, even before they turn the assignment in, what they need to include in their assignment before they turn it in and also can show them what they need to add, fix and what they have done well. This checklist can be used so a student can self assess their work before turning it in even if it is a rough draft, and it also show them what and where they need to improve. Rubrics can show students where they have strength which can really encourage them to do what they need to do to improve in different areas. I would use this rubric to pinpoint difficulties my students have with writing and then I would have conferences with my students to help them see what they are doing well and where they can improve. Student self assessment is a sign of teacher growth because it is showing that a teacher can teach students how to independently learn and grow which is a skill that students will use for a lifetime.