Though I have recently completed my internship, I will admit I am as familiar with assessment as it would seem. Part of my internship was spending 1 month in a mainstream social studies class where the summative and formative assessment was a big part of the class. The following gives a snapshot of where I find myself in the assessment world.
Section one: Where are we going?
One can see on the graph most of the areas are at 60%. However, engaging students in the assessment process is not something I am very familiar with. When I worked in the Social 9 class, I did not feel as though there was enough time to have students actively engage in creating an assessment. However, if I were to redo this process, I would work with the class to guide the assessment process.
Section 2: How are we doing
This is another area I would definitely focus on more specifically student feedback, student metacognition, demonstration of learning, and student feedback. I definitely found student feedback daunting especially with 30 plus students in a class. I am interested in learning further about how to move the red areas into the green.
Section 3: Where to next?
Goal setting has been something I have been working on for some time and is definitely something I am willing to expand. I am proud of the section on teacher growth. During my internship, I worked very hard to take feedback and create a detailed IPP sheet for myself. It helped me greatly in the process.
Section 4: Communicating with stakeholders
Though these areas are green I am looking for ways to give feedback to students that is more than just one positive, something they need t work on and back to a positive.
Section 5: System-based Assessment Literacy
I will be the first to admit, I am not as familiar with data from inside the school division or provincially.
Final Section: Assessment Literacy
It is clear that there needs to be lots of growth and further learning in the “how are we doing” section, but the rest of the areas are places I am looking to expand my growth.
