Missouri Teacher Standard 7.1 And 6.3: Student Assessment

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Unit Reflection
MWSU Standard #6.1 & 6.3 – Student Assessment (Missouri Teacher Standard #7.1)
6.1 – The teacher candidate understands multiple methods of assessment including formative and summative assessment strategies to assess the learner’s progress and how to use them in a variety of ways
6.3 – The teacher candidate uses multiple methods of assessment to monitor learner progress. Before and after I taught my unit over main idea and summarizing informational texts, I gave my students an assessment to determine what they know about the subject. My first assessment was called a pre-test and they did not receive an actual grade for this. This test was designed to give the teacher an idea of what the students know about main idea and if they …show more content…

We also used graphic organizers to help them read through a text and determine what the main idea was. This helped the students, because they were able to practice all week long on how to discover the main idea and to summarize the texts in their own words. For the pretest, I used the main idea assessment over ninjas. I felt this would intrigue the students and motivate them to do well. However, as many of them did not completely understand the material, a good majority of them did not fare well on the pretest. I felt this assessment would be helpful to them, because it even gave them concise directions for completion. During the first day, we used an anchor chart to go over the Somebody-Wanted-But-So-Then method (SWBST) of summarizing a text. As we were going over the anchor chart, I had students read a text together and make sticky-notes to go along with the SWBST method. After we finished the anchor chart, I had students work together in partners to complete the worksheet. If they finished the worksheet, they were to complete the ticket-out-of-the-door, which was very similar to the worksheet they just finished. I used these methods, because I feel that cooperative learning will help them, especially if the groups are working together to …show more content…

Since I am a new entity in the classroom, they were not yet accustomed to my presence in their classroom. The students are from homes that are not always the greatest, so a lot of them have trust issues when it comes to new people. They are used to their classroom teacher, so they behave accordingly when he is teaching, but when I was implementing my lessons, they were out of their seats, calling out of turn, and, at some points, just being rude to everyone, including myself.
Overall, my lessons were well thought out and planned, as I had worked hard on them, but implementation did not always go as planned. There were multiple behavior issues that we had to work through as a group, as well as individually. This is a major problem in the class every day with behavior and we are still working on this. During my unit, however, I noticed that most of the students understood the material while we were working on activities in the class. They were able to complete the assignments with 90%

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