Another assessment that our teachers provide is a portfolio for each one of our students. They are easily assessable to students and both the teacher and the student get to decide what they want to put in the portfolio. I really like this system because we have work in there for the beginning of the year and when we look back I can really see the major improvements that the children have made.
Monday, March 2, 2009
Chapter 3
The chapter on informal assessment was long and it had a lot of information. I haven't really had a chance to really apply many of the assessments that were written about but we do have our own share of assessments. Many people don't think that you can accurately assess a three or four year old child but there are many ways that a teacher can check these young students for understanding. The prekinder teachers at my school all have to conduct the circle test on all of our students. Sometimes it can be inaccurate if the child answers yes to all the questions he/she is bound to get about 50% right.(we just have to be sure to note it) This test really focuses on letter recognition, vocabulary and phonemic awareness items. I don't like conducting this test because it is very long and repetitive when you have to test 22 student in the beginning of the year the middle and the end of the year. I do like the information that the test does provide for me. It breaks the student s off into groups in their areas of need and even provides me ideas and activities that may help them improve the certain skill that they have not mastered.
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Tell me more about the kinds of things teachers include in the portfolio. Do you have an example? Id love to see one for an early literacy kiddo.
ReplyDeleteOne of the things that I keep in my students portfolio is a “this is how I write my name in September “ sheet. On the reverse side its “This is how I look” it provides space for the students to draw a self portrait. We have one for each month of the school year and I think it’s the coolest thing for parents to see. At the end of the year the parents have a collection of work that shows how their child progressed throughout the school year. In the beginning of the year all we may get is scribbles or random marks and at the end of the the year most children are able to write their first and last name and a pretty good detailed picture of themselves.
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