The teacher understands and uses formal and informal assessment
strategies to evaluate and ensure the continuous intellectual, social and
physical development of the learner.
Belief
Statement: Assessment
should be used to evaluate learning and teaching. It should be fair and
balanced to assess if students are getting the key concepts in the content.
Teachers should use formative assessment through their lesson plans to help
guide teaching and as well as summative assessment to show the overall
effectiveness of the overall units.
Artifact
1: WWII Unit
Reflection:
This unit was designed
around assessments and within each lesson are outlined formative and summative
assessments. These assessments will help me as a teacher to understand if
students are grasping the concepts discussed in each lesson. For example, in
lesson one we have students draw a chart as we discuss different actions taken
by the United States and whether it shows a stronger pull to isolation or a
pull to involvement in World War II. This is linked with think, pair, shares
which is where students get into small groups of two and discuss the topic for
a minute and then share their thoughts with the class. Through this type of
summative assessment I can know if students are grasping the concepts the same
day that we are discussing it.
Also within
each lesson are the summative assessment questions that are linked to the
lesson and will be used on the final unit test. By having the summative
assessment with the lesson it is a good reminder as to what will need to be
covered and what will be assessed in the end of unit test. It is also important
for students to have multiple forms of summative assessments ranging from short
answer, multiple choice, fill in the blank, and essay, all of which are
implemented in this unit assessment.
Students
need to know what is expected of them. I have demonstrated this through
rubrics. With each creative assessment in this unit there is a rubric outlining
what is expected and the point value associated if they have everything they
need.
This unit
is a well thought out plan for each lesson and what will be assessed and
connected to the essentials. These lessons have not been implemented in a
classroom, but one problem that I could see is that with having a set lesson
and lesson plan, outside factors could change the way it is implemented and
will need to be adapted. With all of these lessons that I have created teacher
flexibility and understanding is key.
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