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Year Three
Year Three
Personal Goal
Personal Goal
My goal is to:
Use my formative assessment to impact and change future lessons.
Action Plan
Action Plan
I will meet this goal by:
Assessing progress with my MT will support my understanding of how to create and alter lessons. This will influence my following lessons so I can plan for individual and whole class activities.
Accomplishment
Accomplishment
To achieve my goal of using formative assessment to inform and improve future lessons, I incorporated various assessment tools such as Seesaw, exit slips, and lab activities. My mentor teacher guided me in analyzing these assessments to better understand how to align my lessons with learning outcomes. After evaluating my first few assignments, I realized the importance of ensuring that tasks directly connected to the outcomes I aimed to meet. Based on this insight, I adjusted my approach in math and science by incorporating more opportunities for visual representation and reducing the amount of required writing. This adjustment provided more accurate assessments of student understanding and made the marking process more efficient. These formative assessments helped me plan individual and class-wide activities that better supported student learning.
Year Two Semester Two
Year Two Semester Two
Personal Goal
Personal Goal
My goal is to:
Understand how to balance diagnostic, summative, and formative assessment are different and when it is appropriate to use each or a combination.
Action Plan
Action Plan
I will meet this goal by:
Using diagnostic, summative, and formative assessment strategies outlined in my lesson plans to decipher grading. I will use the help of my mentor teacher to understand where students may fall on the scale of comprehension.
Accomplishment
Accomplishment
By practicing the three forms of assessment in different situations, I have begun to understand when each form of assessment is necessary. Thus far, I have come to understand that diagnostic assessment is a pre-assessment mainly used for teachers to understand students' prior knowledge and scaffold off of this. Formative assessment is used to check students understanding and can help teachers know what areas of growth need more attention. Summative assessments are the final assessment of a topic or unit. This creates closure of students' understanding and can assist current and future teachers, parents, and students themselves towards future steps of consolidating learning. These three assessments are used to track the process of learning in different stages.
Year Two Semester One
Year Two Semester One
Personal Goal
Personal Goal
My goal is to:
Recognize gradual progress through summative assessment and therefore experience improvement.
Action Plan
Action Plan
I will meet this goal by:
Recapitulating concepts taught in my tutoring this semester and experience my student gradually improving their reading skills. I will also use the CORE Phonics Survey to assess what the student already knows and where to go from there TQS 3b, 3c)
Accomplishment
Accomplishment
This semester, I used the CORE Phonics Survey to understand my student's literacy and where he needed to go. Each week I saw an improvement as he began to remember and recognize tricky letters such as i and n. Although he still does not have it fully down, his improvement is apparent and gradual. I also ask my student how his confidence with literacy is and when he gets excited about remembering letters or says statements such as "don't tell me, I got this" it shows me he is beginning to understand a bit more how to read!
Year One Semester Two
Year One Semester Two
Personal Goal
Personal Goal
My goal is to:
Practice and experience positive formative assessment.
Action Plan
Action Plan
I will meet this goal by:
Implementing an aspect of mandatory check-ins to insure students are successful during my lesson.
Accomplishment
Accomplishment
During my lesson I had the students bring their worksheets to me and then after looking them over and checking in, they would receive the next sheet. I would ask how the work went on a scale from 1-5 with a show of hands. The students only ever showed 4-5 but if there were 3 or fewer I planned to discuss why and how we will fix that moving forward. This way I could make sure students were working well together, understood the content and completed the sheet.
Year One Semester One
Year One Semester One
Personal Goal
Personal Goal
My goal is to:
Learn and understand the importance of personal feedback and how the results may differ when using written rubrics.
Action Plan
Action Plan
I will meet this goal by:
Looking at how my mentor teacher gives feedback and asking why they do so in that way. Asking specifically how they use formative and summative assessment as well. I will also interact with students to find out how they use that feedback to evolve and improve their understanding.
Accomplishment
Accomplishment
My mentor teacher and I had a discussion regarding her feedback techniques and choices. Instead of using a number grading system, she assigns feedback and compliments to every student regardless of their learning level. The students expressed their appreciation for the compliments as it builds their self-esteem. She purely uses formative assessment in her humanities classroom, only giving number grades on report cards. In her class, the students never wonder what number they are.
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