Adjustments to Practice
1.B.2: Adjustments to Practice
Analyzes results from a variety of assessments to determine progress toward intended outcomes and uses these findings to adjust practice and identify and/or implement differentiated interventions and enhancements for students.
How I did it:
Being able to pivot during teaching is incredibly important, if something you are doing isn’t working, it needs to be changed. This is where feedback is incredibly helpful in the form of an observation from a colleague or a student survey. These adjustments can also occur at a moment's notice and connect well to the previous section on well structured lessons. Teaching is a profession in which you undergo constant growth, there is no plateau for teaching skill. Adjustments may need to be made for every different class of the day due to the uniqueness of students or when issues in the classroom such as technical problems and interruptions like fire drills. One issue I ran into during the hybrid teaching time is the fact that the WiFi did not work very well.
In our class we utilized multiple forms of formative and summative assessment. We bagan the year with mostly multiple choice quizzes as the form of assessment, I then got the chance to do an egg drop design project with the students which really switched things up. We also had other activities such as crash course video's with a form to fill out, simulation labs, and kahoot/online games as forms of assessment. Trying all of these different styles of teaching helped me see what connected most with which students, this allows you to cater lessons to groups of students.
