Assessment

 We started our lesson today by thinking about assessment, instruction, curriculum, and learning. We were told to build a house and place each word as either a wall, a roof, or the foundation. Below you will see the house that I drew in class. I placed curriculum at the bottom because I feel that it is the foundation of learning. Without a curriculum, teachers would not know what to teach. I then put instruction and assessment as the walls because I felt they were intertwined. You instruct and then assess to check your instruction. Learning was the roof because it is the overall goal for your students and should be on top. Learning should be the outcome of the instruction, assessment, and curriculum. 

We learned about different modes of assessment. There are three different types of assessment. They are

• Pre-Assessment, which is an assessment before learning

Examples of pre-assessment are a pre-test, a KWL chart, and self-evaluation 

• Formative or Ongoing Assessment, which is an assessment for learning

Examples of formative or ongoing assessment are conferences, observations, questioning, exit cards, or journal entries.

• Summative Assessment, which is an assessment of overall learning

Examples of summative assessments include a unit test, a performance task, a demonstration, or a portfolio review.

After learning about the different types of assessments we got to add our own slide to the assessment powerpoint of something that we felt the presentation was lacking. Below you will see the slide that I created.

I decided to write more about formative assessment because I feel that it is vital for a teacher to understand. It is important to know that formative assessment can show you if your instruction is working, and if it is not then it is always possible to go back and revise!

Assessment is needed to ensure that teachers are teaching effectively. By learning about the different assessments in class, I feel that I am ready to one day implement them into my own classroom!