The teacher understands and uses multiple methods of assessment to engage learners in their own growth, to monitor learner progress, and to guide the teacher’s and learner’s decision making.
This standard is extremely important to ensure student learning. Currently, in my student teaching I am implementing a pre-assessment, 2 data points and a final assessment on the students expository writing abilities. This would be an artifact I would use to show student growth for each standard addressed. This standard requires for teachers to, "6(v) The teacher is committed to the ethical use of various assessments and assessment data to identify learner strengths and needs to promote learner growth." This is one of the critical dispositions for this standard and is something that the data points will address. Additionally, the standards 6q, 6r, 6s, and 6u require that the teacher is working with student to reflect on their learning, the teacher takes time to plan assessments and create lessons that plan with the end in mind, and also for providing accommodations for students.
Accommodations is something I see as I work in this 8th grade english class. Two students could not complete their final essay and were struggling to pass the class. My CT did a verbal writing assignment and asked them to discuss with him their definition of a hero and provide examples. He then went back through to edit this response with more appropriate transitions to create coherence.
My first artifact will the the Student Learning Outcomes (SLO) I created for one class period. This satisfies, "S/he keeps digital and/or other records to support his/her analysis and reporting of learner progress".
My second artifact will demonstrate, "The teacher implements required accommodations in assessments and testing conditions for learners with disabilities and language learning needs" and "The teacher differentiates assessments which may include providing more challenging learning goals for learners who are advanced academically." For both of these, the students were able to use vocabulary.com for their vocabulary formative assessments. This was beneficial for 504 students as well as accelerated students.
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