The teacher should use multiple strategies for assessing students to help form lessons that engage students and to stimulate their personal growth. Teachers should monitor the student’s growth to see how the student progresses. The data collected from this monitored growth should guide educators’ and student’s decision making.
Anticipatory Set:
Assessments are important in any classroom to check for student understanding and comprehension. Assessments come in many forms other than tests, the example to the left is an anticipatory set that can be used to ask students engaging questions to begin class. I can monitor students’ prior knowledge and growth about the concepts I am teaching or will be teaching. Anticipatory sets can be a guide to students for the lesson for the day.
Graphic Organizers:
Graphic organizers are wonderful formative assessments. In the photo, a student has completed a graphic organizer to help her begin to work independently on a final project in which they are to design their own room like an interior designer. It gives step by step instructions to make a one-point perspective room. I can monitor the students’ growth and understanding of concepts by observing what they present by completing graphic organizers
Pre-Test Data:
With this Pre-test data, I modified some portions of my lessons to explain more thoroughly the concept of linear perspective and supplied vocabulary that the students needed to learn. The average is low because the students had not yet learned about perspective previously. A few students scored very high on this test and I expected them to excel during instruction. I also used this data to modify instruction for the students that received lower scores and I was able to focus on areas that need the most attention. I specified areas that needed more detailed instruction by reviewing the most frequently incorrectly answered questions.