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.
Artifacts
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Reflections
This artifact, a cumulative assessment rubric that I crafted as the capstone to a Hero Unit Plan, displays how I intend to monitor student growth and knowledge acquisition throughout the entirety of a unit plan. It is a cumulative assessment asking students to recall what they have focused on through the unit, and use this information to craft their own writing project. It also tests students’ integration of correct grammar and writing conventions within a more creative style of writing, allowing them to practice and hone their skills. This artifact is an appropriate representation of Standard 7 as it requires students to utilize information that was taught and reinforced through the entirety of the 4.5 week long unit as a final wrap-up. It also functions as a means of measuring student growth and monitoring their progress, because it is preceded by a smaller assessment. This allows me, as a teacher, to use the scores from the previous assessment as a comparison and measure of how the students’ grammar and writing convention use skills have changed or improved. This assessment demonstrates how I was able to become aware of the ways in which to effectively test student knowledge acquisition through developing the assessment rubric. I also realized that there are several different areas that teachers need to focus on in order to best understand and gauge student learning, which I gained through observation and experience in the classroom. As I grow in my teaching, I hope to use this unit plan, and especially the assessment as a means of allowing students to have a personal and creative stake in the writing process and final product.
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.
Artifacts
Click here for supporting artifacts for Standard Seven.
Reflections
This artifact, a cumulative assessment rubric that I crafted as the capstone to a Hero Unit Plan, displays how I intend to monitor student growth and knowledge acquisition throughout the entirety of a unit plan. It is a cumulative assessment asking students to recall what they have focused on through the unit, and use this information to craft their own writing project. It also tests students’ integration of correct grammar and writing conventions within a more creative style of writing, allowing them to practice and hone their skills. This artifact is an appropriate representation of Standard 7 as it requires students to utilize information that was taught and reinforced through the entirety of the 4.5 week long unit as a final wrap-up. It also functions as a means of measuring student growth and monitoring their progress, because it is preceded by a smaller assessment. This allows me, as a teacher, to use the scores from the previous assessment as a comparison and measure of how the students’ grammar and writing convention use skills have changed or improved. This assessment demonstrates how I was able to become aware of the ways in which to effectively test student knowledge acquisition through developing the assessment rubric. I also realized that there are several different areas that teachers need to focus on in order to best understand and gauge student learning, which I gained through observation and experience in the classroom. As I grow in my teaching, I hope to use this unit plan, and especially the assessment as a means of allowing students to have a personal and creative stake in the writing process and final product.
© 2011 Kaylin Jamnicki | Last Updated: April 2012