There are many reasons for conducting classroom assessments – assigning grades is an obvious one. Effective assessment allows teachers to monitor students progress toward achieving learning targets, determine whether instruction is effective, detect students strengths and weaknesses, diagnose learning problems, provide feedback, motivate and engage students, and prepare them for high-stakes tests (McMillan, 2011). Effective assessment therefore enhances teaching and learning as well as allows a means for providing information on student achievement and learning needs (McMillan, 2011). What assessment provides immediate information about how students are progressing in their learning and where they are having difficulties? Formative assessment, or assessment for learning, enhances student learning and achievement and helps teachers improve instruction (Wiliam, 2005).
We are also required to sometimes work with individual groups of pupils on set tasks or individually with pupils who need one to one support. A teaching assistant also displays work of the pupils in a complimentary way and this is very important to give an ego boost to the pupils and to celebrate their achievements. We also have to display pupils targets, class rules and other words/numbers from various topics. Sometimes a TA is required to work with pupils who have a disability or learning difficulty on a one to one base to help them achieve the same goals as their peers keeping them in mainstream school can be extremely important and a pupil with these difficulties will often need extra support to understand their work. Quite often a TA is responsible for supervising the pupils at playtimes, on school outings, or just generally in the classroom and also offering additional support to the teaching staff in all areas.
Angela Jefferson AED/200 April 23, 2013 Professor Carrie Cook There are various cultural exchange and interconnectedness between many different societies around the world. When diversity and inclusion is included within a classroom, the teaching styles become very unique. When a teacher teaches students about the importance of inclusion while in a multicultural classroom, it can help the students to better understand stereotypes. Moreover, it can help the students learn about each other cultural background. As an aspiring teacher, it would be important to promote diversity in the classroom so that it can be a comfortable haven for the students to learn.
Also another policy introduced in the 1988 education act was open enrolment days in which parents and students could look around schools and experience what it would be like to go to that particular school. Also to increase choice, open enrolment created a competition for schools to attract pupils and a greater funding. However some sociologists would argue that education policies have other aims other than marketisation. Students now at school have to stay on in some type of education till they are 18. This policy was introduced by New Labour, carried out later by the conservatives, with the main aim to reduce inequality.
Keeping records is a very important reflexive tool for both teachers and learners in the educational setting. Accurate records taken throughout a course enables both teacher and students to continually reassess the effectiveness of the teaching/learning relationship by giving an ongoing measure against which to view learning objectives. Records indicate whether pupils have learnt what has been taught and are making sufficient progress with the course; who needs more help or is ready for more extensive work by assessing better or worse progress than expected; and whether teachers need to refine any aspects of their teaching by assessing successes or shortcomings where teaching needs to be strengthened. Attendance data taken on a close protection course gives an idea of where students may fall behind with learning outcomes through non attendance. Identifying non attendance could indicate a problem external to the teaching setting which may benefit from referral to other professionals or could point to students’ dissatisfaction with the teaching style which could be addressed by reassessing the teaching methods used in order to promote more inclusive practice.
Unit 307 (1.5) Explain how assessment for learning can contribute to planning for the future learning carried out by :- (a) the teacher Teachers should think about the strategies they use when pupils carry out formal assessed tasks. (Consider baseline assessment at the start of a topic to assess prior knowledge. If assessment shows lack of understanding, stop and address how to overcome understanding) Teachers must think about and plan their questions carefully. Feedback from pupils enables the teacher to assess whether the pupils completely understand what they have been learning. Teachers can analyse performance using tests or questioning the pupils after completing an activity.
(English, 2009). Subject positions emerged: (1) Classroom teacher: Too many responsibilities, time management, responsible for covering the curriculum, role of expert instructional decision maker, and role of learning facilitator; (2) ESL department: Completely responsible for all ELLs, responsible for constructing a fun community for ELLs, and supporting teachers with small group instruction and data; (3) English language learners: ELLs are responsible for their own success or failure, role of deficient and passive students who need special help, and the student’s role is determined by different labels either mainstream, ELL, or Special Education. (English, 2009, p. 6). What is your opinion of the literature review? Is it comprehensive?
Whether to work with disadvantaged children who help preschoolers get ready for school, they all want to help children on their own way and have a specific desire to that discourse community. In conclusion, as you can see here teachers have a unique discourse community of their own. Discourse communities can be unique to the individual or be as broad a being a citizen of the United States. The idea is that the members of the discourse community share interest, values, and language specific to that group. Being a teacher, you share many interests, values, certain language, specific child developmental language and purpose for doing the work they
In this situation, it is important that the Teaching Assistant report their concerns to the classteacher. The teacher can then implement strategies or interventions to help the child improve. The teacher may already be aware that the child has difficulties and the report made by the Teaching Assistant will contribute to evidence gathered by the teacher. A concern such as difficulties with reading could have a knock-on effect on their other literacy skills such as writing. It may also highlight underlying difficulties such as dyslexia or learning difficulties.
Collaborative Learning Community: Cultural Mosaic and Essay There are many cultures that educators will come in contact with in today’s classroom and teachers need to be prepared to provide them with the same level of learning as any other child. However, when students are from different cultures and have more complex backgrounds, the approach to learning can be quite challenging if the teachers has not educated themselves on strategies and techniques to accommodate these learners in the classroom. Therefore, by exploring the African, Indian, Japanese, and Mexican culture of students in the classroom, one will be able to gain insight on how to build an effective working relationship with students, their ways of communication, and learning styles that specifically connect the lesson content to the individual while knowledge and productivity is occurring. The following is a chart that compares some of the cultures in today’s classroom: African Culture Indian Culture Japanese Culture Mexican Culture Norms • Strong sense of family and religious ties. • Extraordinary belief in faith to persevere through any situation that may arise; that being in the classroom or outside the classroom.