"The purpose of assessments are to determine the learners` strengths and weaknesses so that the teacher can improve instructions to provide more opportunities for learners` cognitive growth and educational experience" - Reda Davin and Jane Sethusha.
Learners are assessed in order to track their progress and monitor their level of development as well for us as educators to provide assistance and guidance to parents and evidently improving teaching methods/techniques.
Evaluation is defined as a written document which describes the performance of the learners by a set standard; whereas assessments are ongoing processes of monitoring and observing a learner/s in their own space accordingly.
For my assessments I will be doing formative assessments which are based off the information taught and are used to track day-by-day learning. This also helps improve daily teaching abilities as well as provides feedback on the leaner's progression.
Assessment (15 minutes)
The purpose of this assessment is to provide feedback on what the learners have learnt as well as develop their critical thinking skills.
Move around the room during Independent Working Time and observe learners as they work to assess their understanding of the lesson content. Encourage and assist learners to write questions that use higher-level thinking. Distribute copies of the writing checklist and have learners use it to assess their own work.
Assess learner understanding by listening to learners as they share answers to questions during the read-aloud and as they brainstorm with partners later in the lesson.
o Are learners able to use the 5 W's accurately?
Check that learners understand the difference between a simple yes/no question and one that requires more complex thought and discussion.
Review the work the learners did by reading aloud a few of the question’s learners wrote. See if the class can answer these questions.
Have learners trade their questions with a partner and then share their answers to one another's questions.
Pose learners questions to the group and allow for whole group discussion of interesting open-ended.
Assessment (15 minutes)
These assessment's purpose is learners will be able to locate examples of circles, squares, rectangles, and triangles in the world around them as well as be able to compare various types of shapes.
Have your learners complete the Shape Jumble worksheet, identifying and coloring the specified shapes. Using that same worksheet, call out each shape and have the students point to one of the shapes that you call out.
Sing the “Flat Shapes” song with learners. Invite learners to name all the shapes and identify which shape is missing from the song. Once the learners name the rectangle as the missing shape, ask the learners to name the shape that is most like a rectangle. The learners should name the square because it has four sides.
Using one page from a book with shapes in it have the learners name and identify the various shapes in the picture.