Week 2: Assignment 2

·       What new assessment practices will you use in your classroom?
Some of the assessment practices I look forward to implementing in the classroom include filling out a chart that provides an overview of their word knowledge, fluency, language, comprehension, writing, motivation and interest. Working with former teachers to obtain students past reading records and performance can be a great reference tool. Also have students write words that they should know by providing photos as a reference or saying words out loud (spelling test).

·       In what ways do you plan to use the results of your assessments?
These assessments give a glimpse of how students will perform within the classroom. As a teacher, it is important that you take the results to create lesson plans that tackle areas of problems. In addition, teachers can utilize these assessments to split students into various learning levels to focus more on problematic areas through specialized assignments.

·       What assessment practices do you want to know more about?
One of the assessment practices I wish to learn more about is anecdote records and seeing how students make connections, their behavior and how they react during their reading and what their thought process is like when they are reading. This allows teachers to essentially get into the mind frame of students and find ways they can avoid students making errors.

·       What are the challenges you still face in assessing and recording student achievement and progress in reading and writing?

Depending on the students age, many students guess word based on photos or what they’ve learned from prior sentences. For instances, during a running record, I’ve noticed students struggle with reading and guessing words because they weren’t familiar instead of sounding it out.

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