Assessing and Evaluating Students' Learning

The Spokane public schools website makes a lot of sense because coming from a student’s standpoint I agree that students and parents want a clear picture of what the child has done throughout the quarter/semester. Students take grades very seriously and they want to know where they are at with their hard work they have put in. I also agree with the article that giving a zero is a negative impact on the student. As a teacher, I want to bring so much positive energy into my classroom that I have a feeling zero’s would bring my students down. Giving a zero doesn’t show the students full potential and what they can do. Maybe they forgot to turn something in or they are still working on it. Moving onto the handout Assessing and Evaluating Students’ Learning, I like how it mentions to ask the student “What does it mean to learn literature?” This will influence how students’ will analyze literature. The information the teacher gives is what the student is going to listen to. I also like what this article mentions about feedback. “In giving feedback to students’ written drafts, you are encouraging them to explore alternative perspectives so that they are continually rethinking, elaborating, reformulating, revising, or interrogating their own interpretations.” This will allow students’ to keep on thinking about what they just performed. They can become stronger readers, writers, and thinkers during the feedback process. Once the teacher gives good feedback the students’ can gather their thoughts and re assess what they are going to do next. I also like how it mentions if the teacher doesn’t have time for the feedback process then you can teach your students to do peer feedback. What I plan to do in my classroom will be what the article calls “exit memos.” This will students’ a time to reflect on what they learned that day in the classroom. They can recap on their own what they learned that day and hopefully the information will stick in their head a little more and it will be remembered. This article was very helpful and it gave so many ideas on what you can do in your own classroom.