Posts tagged with assessment

Week 9: How much it too much, and what’s not enough?

November7

One of the big adjustments in leaving a prep position with periods for a self-contained class is the change in the time I have to work with kids. I had gotten used to discrete 45-minute segments, but now have the whole day with the same class teaching multiple subjects, etc. I still don’t feel like […]

Week 5-7 Focus on Formative Assessment

October25

I apologize to my readers, but I’ve been really caught up in working in my new environment. Things are definitely NOT perfect, but I feel that they are headed in the right direction and are under control. I got a book for sending in a question to Larry Ferlazzo’s Ed Week blog, and I chose […]

Quick bit of analysis…

September17

I have not been in a “grading” environment when I work in the lab. All my assessments were formative and ungraded, although I gave students much feedback. I’ve been conscious there is has been a strong move towards numeric values in evaluating student work, and analyzing that to improve instruction. I’ve given students a “formative” […]

Revisiting Assessment

January2

I thought I’d come back to a topic I spent a lot of time on in the last month, assessment. First, the new secretary of education was chosen, Education Week: Obama: Duncan ‘Doesn’t Blink’ on Tough Decisions, but I hadn’t commented on it. I thought the “Doesn’t Blink” comment was a bit “tin-eared” after the […]

Can You Measure That?

December23

One of the reasons that some folks would like teachers to be judged by tests is because they feel other methods (teacher observation, etc.) are too subjective. This recently got a re-run in a “best of” post from Killian Betlach, and it brings up some issues I’ve had with “accountability” in teaching. “You get up […]

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