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The competent teacher understands and uses appropriate formative and summative assessments for determining student needs, monitoring student progress, measuring student 6 growth, and evaluating student outcomes. The teacher makes decisions driven by data about curricular and instructional effectiveness and adjusts practices to meet the needs of each student.
Formative Assessment:
Formative Assessment:
In my 3rd grade Student Teaching placement, I was able to teach students continents and seas of the world. After learning all of the continents, I made a review Pear Deck game (on the right) in which I did not use for grades, but rather to have students answer questions and verbally reflect to me if they knew what we have been learning. I locked screens after a certain amount of time to ensure students didn't change answers. I then had students tell the answer(s) outloud and we had a quick discussion on it. Students reflected on their own or verbally to the class if they were comfortable. I would walk around and see what students selected after I locked screens and we were discussing to questions. I made notes about which students were getting multiple questions wrong and I would ask them questions further or maybe discuss with students while other students were working on questions. This was useful, a good review, and the kids loved the fun!
Below, on the left side, are a few more examples of what I have used for formative assessment. The top-left activity was sort of a pre-test to ensure students understood go to change verbs when they are irregular. I gave this pre-test/exit slip type of activity to them to see where their understanding lies right before taking the actual verb test. I wanted to make sure they all had an understanding of the irregular verbs before I administered an actual test. The bottom-left image is a sticky note fact activity I did with almost every important person we were learning in a unit of biographies/nonfiction. During February, I was able to teach various important people for Black History Month and I had students make fact walls in which they tried to give a fact that was different from those sitting next to them. This fact wall featured was about Rosa Parks and was instructed to do before we dove deeper into her life; this was more of a prior knowledge assessment with some prompting towards life and death years.
The Indicator that fits with this formative assessment is 7E) which states "...understands how to select, construct, and use assessment strategies and instruments for diagnosis and evaluation of learning and instruction..." This connects because I understood the topic, the students and where they were at, who's screen I needed to keep an eye on for reviewing, and how to make the formative assessment engaging. I believe this worked well because many students were asking to use Pear Deck again and play more Social Studies games. I could also use this as a independent review resource and view over answers later in time.
Summative Assessment:
Summative Assessment:
Within this same 3rd grade placement with the continents review, I was able to make my own half-unit assessment. This took place after the review when I had only half the number of continents within the Pear Deck. Students took this to see both where they were in their learning and how the review helped. Many students scored very well in this, while only one student struggled. This proved to me that the assessment went well but supports and accommodations are needed for this student as they take written assessments such as the one below.
Indicator 7J) states "...uses assessment results to determine student performance levels, identify learning targets, select appropraite research-based instructional strategies, and implement instruction to enhance learning outcomes..." I believe that this assessment I created relates to this standard because I not only created an assessment based on study tools and what the students had been learning in Social Studies, but I also took the results in which one student struggled as a sign to accomodate this student better and give them more study tools.
Progress Monitoring:
Progress Monitoring:
During my time at District 109, I was able to use a tool named AimsWeb Progress Monitoring. Each week, I would do a quick one minute assessment in ELA topics, and a quick one minute assessment in Math topics for each of the students on my caseload. These assessments would vary based on my student's individual goal, progress, and where they test each quarter. It would give a score, color, and percentile in which they test within and in which they would be in for each week of progress monitoring. This would prove if an intervention was showing growth, no progress, if behavior plays a role in their testing, and if there would need to be any changes. It also gave data for behavior reports, parent updates, progress reports, report cards, IEP meetings, reevaluations, or possible placement change. I am unable to show the data and program as there are real student's names within the program and it is very difficult to remove the names.
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