Online Resources
Useful webpages and youtube videos to enrich assessment in your classroom!
Below, I describe why I chose these resources and offer links to visit and view them.
Below, I describe why I chose these resources and offer links to visit and view them.
ASCD.ORG According to their website, "ASCD is a global community dedicated to excellence in learning, teaching, and leading. ASCD’s innovative solutions promote the success of each child."
This resource is an excellent reference for all aspects of teaching, including assessment. This particular article, "The New Teacher's Guide to Better Assessment", was written by Mary Jo Grdina who is a curriculum supervisor and college professor in a school of education. It offers realistic advice to new and veteran teachers on how to preserve idealistic approaches to assessment and prevent choosing efficiency over effective assessment. It highlights best practices and assessment balance as steps to achieve the real aim of assessment, which Grdina states is to "Educate and Improve". |
How Differentiated Instruction and Formative Assessment Work This video highlights Forest Lake Elementary School for it's unique assessment based instruction. The school community as a whole is based upon the principles of differentiation and formative assessment.
The staff and teachers are consistently assessing their students through observation, portfolios and other forms of assessment to determine where their students abilities are and how to best assist them to achieve. They use a wide range of technology such as smart boards, iClickers, computer programs, tablets, and more to meet the students' varying learning styles. This goes beyond routinely giving assessments to focus on making assessment part of the every day practice of teaching. |
When Students Become Teachers This video takes place in a 3rd Grade classroom at Lockhart Elementary School in Wake County North Carolina. It addresses an interesting spin the third grade teacher, Mrs. Hunt, is taking on assessing her student's knowledge of mathematics.
After students are taught a standards based lesson they are asked to plan a lesson on the skill that they learned. Then they create a lecture video in which they are video taped teaching their lesson to the video's audience. These videos are then peer reviewed using a rubric. In addition, students self critique their own video lectures with the same rubric. The rubric assesses compression of the mathematic standard being taught, and mastery of speaking and listening standards addressed under the Common Core State Standards. This is an excellent way to facilitate students to perform their own formative assessment of their knowledge. The video also mentions using the student lesson videos for parent conferences, which I thought was an awesome Idea. |