Assessments

This was a lot of reading on assessment and how it can benefit both student and teacher. The main issue to know about assessments is “What do you do with the information given to you?” Also, “How do you apply your data to your teachings and your students?” We as teachers are always assessing our students to see where they fall into our classroom. If we assess them by using only one type of assessment then there will be bias among the results of the class. The reason I say this is because all children learn at different rates and learn by using different modalities. So we as future teachers or teachers already, have to change the way we assess our students and get a full understanding of our children in the classroom. This also gives the student of understanding of how he/she learns and comprehends topics in class. They get a better way of self evaluating themselves and try to correct their problems in what they lack in. I feel that you always have to keep an ongoing assessment for both student and teacher. We as teachers should take a hard look at ourselves and make sure we are doing the right thing in the class room to help the students out the best we could. We have to start off by always keeping up on our subject matter and knowing all the information out there on the subject. This way when we give assessments, we have an understanding why we are giving the assessment and have reason for it. Rather then just giving a test and marking a grade down and handing it back to our students with no explanation or reason behind it. It will be such a waste of time to give assessments and do nothing with the information given to you.