7. Assessment

This artifact was created for a history methods class that I took in the fall of 2021. For this artifact we were to create a lesson that included both formative and summative assessments and to include a rubric of the summative assessment. Below is the summative assessment rubric for the story the students were to create to conclude the unit. There are sections that are broken down and also two that show which standard they have met for each category. 

Knowledge Indicator 7L of Teaching Standard 7 states that the 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." For this assessment, I was able to have to have students see what the end goal was for their project and be able to use a rubric to set goals and separate when they needed to finish parts to help them through the process. This rubric also is broken down into parts so students can see in what areas there were strengths and where they could continue to grow and help them better understand. 

This artifact demonstrates clear understanding of creating assessments to help students be aware of their strengths and needs and to find the areas to specifically encourage them to continue learning. When recognizing this students will be able to set goals to better increase their knowledge and grow more exponentially. While creating this artifact it also helped me really realize each point break down and how best to continue when students need to know their errors and how to earn points in more assignments. 

This artifact was created for my 4th graders during my student teaching. Here I created an end of the unit test to see what students had recalled and learned during our unit on animal communication. The assessment was open ended and left lots of room for students to shine. This also left availability for me to see what lessons in the science unit stuck out and what they best remember from this unit. It also gave me the chance to let students who may not remember the specifics on an assessment to share their understandings. 

Knowledge indicator 7I of Teaching Standard 7 states that the competent teacher "knows assessment and progress monitoring techniques to assess the effectiveness of instruction for each student." This assessment allowed me to really see what points students remember and the amount they elaborated on each topic. While during science time and their labs I was able to check in with progress monitoring more for social emotional on how they work with others. This assessment really gave that open door for all students to share and let me realize the effectiveness of each lesson and how it impacted the students lives and their learning capabilities. 

This artifact demonstrates clear understanding of techniques to assess the effectiveness of instruction for students. Through this artifact it opened me up to see that there are so many ways to see what students have learned and be able to have differentiation in assessments but still be able to properly assess students.  As a teacher, this is important because we need to recognize that students may have learned during the classes but the material that was chosen and  covered on the test is not everything they learned and there may be more to what they recall and learned.