The teacher understands and uses multiple methods of assessment to engage learners in their own growth, to document learner progress, and to guide the teacher’s on-going planning and instruction.
Artifact- Instructional Plan
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The artifact for this standard is my Instructional Plan. Within this assignment, I identified an instructional priority of a student I was working with in fieldwork and came up with a plan and assessment for the student. The student that I was working with had a goal in her IEP of working on calculating money. I then created a least-to-most prompting method to help the student over the course of four weeks work on her goal. I collected baseline data of if she knew the names of coins and then worked up to calculating how much two different coins were worth. Each week I would pull my student aside for a quick check-in of how she was towards her goal and I would collect that data and see how she improved over the course of four weeks. The student was given the same assessment each week to see if there were any areas that she continuously got stuck on or improved. This assignment corresponds directly with this standard because it allowed me to learn and create a formative assessment for a student. I was able to document the assessment and the learner’s progress and was able to change my own instruction as the assessment was given each week.
This assignment has helped me expand my knowledge of becoming a future teacher because it allowed me to work on giving an assessment to a student and see how my own lesson worked. Over the course of creating the assessment, I was able to do more trial and error processes and learned what was going to be the best way of giving the assessment. This also helped me learn more about how to work with students more one on one rather than whole group teaching and really focus on the needs of that one student. This assignment has helped me better understand what giving formative assessments can look like and how they can change for each student.