7.Assessment

During my second placement of student teaching during the Spring 2020 semester, I collaborated with my cooperating teacher at St. Laurence high school to develop this final exam assessment in a written format for our freshman class. Inside the artifact, you can find the students are asked to formulate a narrative essay that deals with various topics from the semester and the students are also being asked to report at various points where the pandemic has become a challenge for various aspects of physical activity and sports. This artifact was created as an alternate final assessment as opposed to some sort of a physical component assessment, however due to the recent pandemic other measures were adapted accordingly.

The importance of this artifacts was to connect students to an effective assessment, even though were are physically and socially distancing due to the pandemic. Because of this, alternative means of assessment were needed in order to provide an effective measurement tool of student understanding during e-learning. As stated by the IPTS 7 performance indicator 7Q that states a competent teacher, "uses various types of assessment procedures appropriately, including making accommodations for individual students in specific contexts." This artifact shows evidence of understanding the standard by showing the accommodations that were made to the final assessment in specific contexts, in this case the current pandemic. The artifact demonstrates my progress toward meeting the standard as it verifies various accommodations made for individual students to be able to complete the final assessment from home through a google document.

While working on this assessment, I learned that it is important to have alternative ideas and means to assess students in a variety of ways in any case of emergency. This artifact is important to my development as a teacher in that I have come to learn that situations can escalate quickly, we must quickly adapt for the success of our students. In the future, through this document, I will be able to apply various assessment procedures to support and accommodate individual or groups of students as needed.

When I was in my first placement of student teaching in Spring 2020, I developed a self-assessment checklist used to track a passing skill. In it is three cues of passing, along with various attempts of passing across the top. Students would use the checklist for each attempted pass and analyze their for on whether they completed the cue. Then the students would write short term goals on the back of the sheet for using the passing skill. This assessment checklist was created to track students progression level in the passing skill during a soccer unit.

The importance of this artifact is to provide students a means of accountability for future goals and responsibility for their acquisition and understanding of new learning. As stated by the IPTS 7 and performance indicator 7L a competent teacher, " involves students in self-assessment activities to help them become aware of their strengths and needs and encourages them to establish goals for learning." This artifact demonstrates an understanding of the standard by having students complete a self-assessment of the passing skill where they can physically see the strengths in their skill as the assessment goes on. It facilitates progress toward meeting the standard as it provides students an opportunity to document goals for the future as well.

When creating this assessment, I learned that it is important to make the content in the assessment grade-level appropriate as some students in the group com from diverse backgrounds where English is their second language. This artifact is important toward my development as an educator as it provided me with an opportunity to create my own assessment tool that was effectively used in the classroom setting. For my future classroom, I now feel more comfortable creating my own assessment tool that will allow me to continue to modify new assessment tools to create effective assessment for other situations as well.