Finding what is most helpful for meeting the goals set out in the standards may be difficult for a new teacher. Setting high standards and clear goals for students help set them up for their future, make them feel valued and have a goal to reach for. Close-Reading is a careful and purposeful way of reading that help the students to actually comprehend what they are reading and in turn makes reading more desirable. Additionally text-based evidence aides in the understanding and comprehension by providing students with well structured and purposeful text. There are so many times in my life I wish I could go back to my early education years and pay closer attention to what I was being taught.
1. Explain the purpose of the following types of assessment in learning and development • Initial Assessment • Formative Assessment • Summative Assessment Formative Assessment Initial assessment provides the information needed to plan an individual’s learning and improve their chances of learning effectively. Without it, there are only assumptions. It’s always possible to make some predictions about learners from an application form or selection test, but it’s an insecure basis for planning. Learners themselves bring assumptions about learning based on the past, and some of these may get in the way of looking ahead to a new way of learning.
Phonological awareness is one of the most important education concepts of this decade. Teachers are talking about it, parents are trying to understand it, and publishers of early reading materials are trying to include it. Yet, it is a concept that is easily misunderstood. Some confuse it with phonics; others consider it a part of general print awareness. It is neither of these things.
Current Issues Summary and Response Matt 12/12/2010 Intro As a future special education teacher one of my jobs will be to keep up-to-date on current issues in the education field and let my parents know about any helpful development on these current issues. It is important for teachers to keep tabs on new developments that could be useful to better their understanding of education as a whole. There are a plethora of current issues involving special education. These issues range from more controversial to less controversial. Some of the more controversial issues are the use of tests to place students into special education, how should we grade students with special needs and how to discipline a student who is in special education.
BALANCED LITERACY PAPER A balanced literacy program includes aspects of literature-based instruction as well as phonics. Linda Chen and Eugenia Mora-Flores (2006) say that this approach “recognizes the complexities of the act of learning to read and the need to utilize multiple approaches because children learn differently.” There is no one-size-fit all strategy to teach children how to read and write, instead we need to find out the individual needs of each student and give them several strategies to work with. It is our job as educators to provide our children with meaningful opportunities for reading and writing. Before laying out an instruction outline, we need to define our goal. Every year teachers need to
It is concerned with the soundness, trustworthiness or legitimacy of the claims or inference that are made on the basis of obtained scores. As teacher we must understand that the assessment we are actually assessing are on clear procedures, consistent and unbiased. Also that I interprete children's work and understand their work correctly, fairly and reasonably.During the marking process there were many incidents where validity could be noticed. A good example would be that I didn't have a reasonable range of the English content knowledge which therefore reduce my chance of assessing the recount to the best of my abilities. As teacher we can't asses everything so we must make sure that what we so assess is
There are two different types of assessment, assessment for learning and assessment of learning. Assessment for learning is used to inform and guide instruction as well as diagnosis any misconceptions a student may have. Assessment of learning is used after the learning has already occurred to determine the level of understanding the student has achieved and to see if they have mastery of the standard. Within this component teachers can indicate which type of assessment they will use to guide instruction whether it be a pencil/paper test or assessing students using 21st century skills. Differentiation: When providing differentiation in the classroom the teachers provide instruction to meet or exceed each individual student.
Standards-Based Assessments Standards-based assessment is the primary outcome of standards-based reform. Well-designed tests ensure that all students have the knowledge and skills that they need to succeed at the next level. By using multiple and diverse sources, teachers can be certain that they have enough evidence to assess student learning. Understandably, the new way of teaching has had some teachers in a quandary as to the best method for panning lessons. Since the author is not currently teaching in the
Simon Zapata 3 January 2013 Unit One: Expository Paper Education is a general form of learning in which skills, knowledge, and habits are transferred from one person, or group of people to others; this is done by teaching, research, training, self-learning, and also experience. Many authors speak of their upbringing, and the effects education has on them. Some speak of their experiences by using anecdotes, and observations to show the effects of education. Mark Bauerlein, writer of Too Dumb for Complex texts?, criticizes modern teachers and their ways of teaching, and how it is affecting students. Authors Eudora Welty, author of One Writer’s Beginnings, speaks of her experiences with education when they she young, and the effects education
Along with positives for the students, there are positives for the teacher’s also. Teachers have a framework for understanding what students have learned or should have learned before arriving in the classroom (Gardner and Powell, 2013). The focus on skill doesn’t mean teachers should abandon the content but rather it also offers a clear framework of what skills the student should be able to do instead of what they should know (content). Common core standards are a good step in clearly defining what students need to know and be able to