Monitoring and assessing student achievement is a vital part of the teaching- learning cycle. It enables me to monitor student’s progress, improve my teaching and develop lesson that are targeted at each students’ individual needs. Throughout my placement I have been able to develop a range of both summative and formative assessment tasks, which have allowed me to analyse and record student progress and differentiate my teaching where necessary.
Assessment for learning
Before beginning a unit of learning I have used the following assessment strategies useful for discovering student’s prior knowledge towards the concept whilst providing me with …show more content…
We can then, if needed think of strategies that will help us achieve the success criteria.
Assessment of learning
This type of assessment allows me to collect data in regard to the effectiveness of the learning and teaching that has occurred after the conclusion of a unit of work. o At the end of a unit on subtraction, I administered a post-test, I choose to keep the test the same as the pre-test, which enables me to easily see students’ progress. o Whilst roaming the classroom when students are learning, I like to carry an anecdotal grid that has the learning intention and success criteria jotted down at the top. I am then able to make quick notes about student’s achievements within this lesson whilst noting down any thing we might need to revise again.
In my own classroom, I plan to continue using a range of assessment techniques, to improve my teaching and continually strive to improve student learning