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Miss Brooks
Assessment
The teacher understands and uses multiple methods of
assessment to engage learners in their own growth, to monitor
Learners need endless
feedback rather than they
need endless teaching.
- Grant Wiggins
In the Classroom
Miss Brooks
Knowledge
I love to give students a choice or allow them their creative
freedom during assessments. One of my main summative
assessments for the geography of Michigan unit, my students are
asked to create their own brochure. They are given a rubric that
will show them what is considered mastery, but also what is graded
at a one, two, and above grade level or a four.
When analyzing assessment data, I have to keep in mind of my
special education students and my English language learning
students. Their scores may be lower due to their lack of
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In the Classroom
Miss Brooks
Dispositions
Instruction is aligned with learning goals and standards, with
assessment in mind. In class activities are planned to help develop
problem solving skills, while also learning the material at hand.
While testing is taking place, accommodations are taken into
consideration for special education students and students with
language learning needs. These accommodations could include
reading the test to the students as a source of comprehension,
shortening the assignment or assessment to only one question per
standard instead of multiple, or a quiet or separate room for
students to read the test aloud to themselves.