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Assessment
InTASC Standard 6: The teacher understands and uses multiple methods of assessment to engage learners in their own growth, to monitor learner progress, and to guide the teacher’s and learner’s decision making.
Introduction
The purpose of assessment is to provide feedback to learners in a multitude of ways, which in turn encourages their growth. It provides both students and educators crucial information on student progress with content comprehension and recall. Through assessment, we determine students' current academic levels and develop vision for daily work and attainable goals. Through assessing students in a variety of ways, mastery of content can be demonstrated in varying ways appealing to all types of learners. Assessment is intended to pinpoint strengths and areas of growth for students. Educators can be strategic in their practice by focusing on areas of greater confusion and allot less time to concepts students have previously mastered.
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Throughout the year I assess my students in multiple ways. We have daily formative assessment, district and state mandated summative assessment, art integration assessment, and ongoing year-long assessment.
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Visit the links below to visit each component of our assessments.
Conclusion
It is my duty as an educator to align instruction and assessment with learning goals. The feedback provided by multiple assessments allows daily content instruction to target state standards needing greatest focus. It becomes droll and unnecessary to covered mastered state standards. By focusing on targeted skills of need determined by assessment, instruction is personalized and deliberate.
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Assessment in turn drives small group instruction because specific skills are practiced with deliberate intervention. Additionally, assessment gives students and teachers general awareness and guidance for learning throughout the year. Having appropriate and frequent assessment makes learning individualized and purposeful. It maximizes instructional time and allows student growth at faster rates because time is not spent on areas of existing mastery and adds focus to areas needing support.
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