Aim 7

The aim is to use different types of assessments to assess children's learning.

 

 

  Rationale

During my teaching for literacy and numeracy lessons in the KG classroom, I was assessing the children’s learning while they were doing the activity by observing and evaluating them. I need to use different types of assessments to assess the children’s learning because I want to evaluate their learning during the whole term to know their strengths and weaknesses and so I can support their learning.

Through assessments, I can identify current knowledge and skills of students, plan for the strengths and needs of students, evaluate students growth over time and evaluate my teaching  effectiveness.

 

  Strategies

•To achieve this aim, I will use the following types of assessments to evaluate the children’s learning:

•Performance Assessment: Assess children as they participate in the activities, solve problems, or draw illustrations. I can observe and take notes on student discussions and interaction.

•Comprehensive Assessment: The type of data collected are based on the child’s social, emotional, cognitive, and physical development. Teachers need information about the student’s strengths and weaknesses in all areas to enhance their decision making and guide their instruction strategies.

•Open-ended questions.

•Photos.

•Save children's dated art work to evaluate areas.

•Make a portfolio for each child.

•Use checks list about what has been learned to date and what have children achieved.

 

 

 

 Examples of assessment sheets

 

 Mentor Observation

  

Self evaluation

Whole teaching practice period:
 

o I used some forms of formative assessment sheets which helped me to know the children’s learning development and also to plan for the next lessons so I can scaffold the children’s learning who need some supports.

o I have collected some of the children’s work and artifacts in a portfolio for each of them to check their achievements and development. (Shadowing 4 children section in the E-Portfolio).

o I encouraged the children to act as role play the story book that I read it for them to assess them if they understood what was the aims of the lesson or not.

o I used ADEC PIP’s exams where the children had different literacy and numeracy questions and then we get a grade for each child success.