7. Assessment

Description: This is a formative assessment my CT introduced me to which I use after my students complete a timed run. It asks them to reflect on the effort they gave by providing cues to prompt thinking.

Connection: This assesment connects to perforamnce indicator 7l in that it allows students to be involved and assess themselves. The process of self-assessments encourages students to take responsibility of their learning and track their own improvement.

Explanation: Asking my students to do this reflective assessment has helped me learn what they understand about running and how well they think they do when running. I can compare their reflections to my own data which I track based on how far they run in the givent time.

Description: This is a assessment I used in my sixth grade health class when we were learning about carbohydrates. Carbs can be divided into two major categories and this assessment asked them to identify which foods would fall into each category. 

Connection: This assessment relates to performance indicator 7j which discusses using assessment to enahnce learning outomes and implement instruction. I used this as a formative assessment during my Nutrition unit to help me gauge how well my students understood complex vs simple carbs and what I as the teacher needed to clarify.

Explanation: This was one of the first assessments I created all on my own and for a class outside of PE. From it I learned that explaining the difference between the two categories using the same language each time was unhelpful. This assesment helped me identify the common mistakes students were making and go over the correct responses with them.