Assessment For Learning
Key Strategies
Assessment Video
After watching the Assessment for Learning video, I found the five strategies and the suggestions to be very helpful for a teacher. Rystad (2013) noted, ""providing feedback the moves the student forward" and I find this to be the best strategy for any teacher regardless of the age of the child. It is important to provide children with feedback so they understand what they are doing correct and what they need to work on to get better. I feel that a successful K-Prep classroom is one that provides each individual child with engaging materials that are at each of their levels. I also liked when Rystad talked about the red, yellow, and green light concept. This is a great tool because you can use it with older children but you can also use it with younger children as well because it is such a simple concept for all ages to understand.
Formative Assessments
Teachers have to do formative assessments on children so they can know and understand where each child is with their learning. This can be done by asking questions, games and other fun and creative ways for a teacher to know at what level a child is at. As a teacher this is done by taking daily notes and observations that I do of all the children in my classroom.
Summative Assessment
Summative assessments are not fun for older children because they have to take the standardized tests to see what they have learned at school. There needs to be summative assessments in some way shape or form because teachers need to know what concepts and information each student is retaining so the teacher knows what they need to work on with the children. Younger children it is not standardized test; however, there are other tools teachers can use to access what they have learned.
Formative/Summative Assessments
I find that both of useful for teachers. I feel that formative assessments can be done daily to help with the improvement of lesson plans for the children. The summative assessments are useful as well; however, they do not need to be done as often and K-prep teachers can find fun ways to do these such as making up a game to see what letters and sounds they have learned from the alphabet.
Quote:
The test of a good teacher is not how many questions he can ask his pupils that they will answer readily, but how many questions he inspires them to ask him which he finds it hard to answer.
-Alice Wellington Rollins
Reference:
Rystad, M. (2013, April 7). Assessment for learning [Video file]. Retrieved fromhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcLMlY6R7RM
Amber Stuart
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