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Saturday, August 6, 2011

Wisconsin Educator Standards 8) Assessment

Standard #8:  The teacher understands and uses formal and informal assessment strategies to evaluate and ensure the continuous intellectual, social, and physical development of the learner.

I recognize the advantages and drawbacks of different types of students' assessments.  I will use and record multiple measures of   students' learning.  I will modify teaching strategies based on the results of assessments.  I will be able to communicate student progress.

Artifact nine is a evaluation form focusing on my teaching, filled out by my supervising instructor, Mary Skerik, as she observed me teach a lesson during student teaching.  She observed me teaching a math lesson in the statistics and probability unit.

In addition to assessing my students I need to be continually evaluating my teaching.  Using constructive criticism and thoughtful reflection will make me a stronger teacher.

Artifact twelve is a writing lesson plan.  For this lesson students wrote a generalization (a skill they had been working on in reading) about a specific person they knew and then gave to detail to elaborate on the generalization.  To encourage self-reflection, students were then asked to grade themselves.

The assessment portion of this assignment asked students to participate in self-reflection.  Based on students' reactions, this is not something they normally do. 

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