Rubrics

As a teacher, rubrics come in very useful in the classroom to access your students. You can either let your students see the rubric and let them see what you are grading them on if it is for a single subject or if it is used for other subjects you can use it yourself, so that the students work hard on every aspect in the assignment. The Rubistar website along with the Rubric Maker were awesome sights, especially being able to use these sights as a future educator is great! The websites have a lot of great ideas to build off of and are a wonderful reference. I really enjoyed working on the rubric and the websites actually make it really simple and easy to understand.

Fairness in Assessment & Learning Targets

Fairness in Assessment is teaching lessons so that every student no matter what background, race, ethnicity, gender, disability,  learning disability or not can understand the material being taught.  Therefore, everyone has a fair and equal chance of comprehending the lesson at hand.  That means making accommodations, spending extra time with a student(s)  or providing an environment that every student can learn equally in.

Through learning targets  there are several ways to access students.  There are general learning, specific learning and mastery learning targets that can be targets for the class or individual subjects.  What i really like about the learning targets are that they incorporate taxonomy to get the most out of the target.  Taxonomy helps me organize my thoughts, into  what I want my students to really get out of my lessons and what the should achieve after the lesson is taught.  Therefore, learning targets not only help me become better organize in my thoughts, but they also help the students understand what they should achieve at the end of the lesson.

Assessment is an evaluation. An evaluation of how the students are handling the material they are taught; if they are understanding it or if they aren't understanding it and if they aren't understanding it, why is that? Not only do the students get to get an evaluation on their work with feedback to help them understand their 'mistakes' or their successes of the material, but the teacher gets an evaluation from the students. The evaluation can be positive, meaning all the students or a majority of the students understand the information, so that you, the teacher, can move on or it can be negative. The students or a majority of the students don't understand the material being taught and you as a teacher need to see what areas you went wrong in and then, go back and fix it and spend a little more time on this information.

There are all kinds of assessments formative, diagnostic, summative. A teacher can get this information in different aspects, but the most common way is a test and as the class can see in the 1620 video students take a lot of test and I understand that tests need to be given for feedback and other things, but it can't be the only assessment that a teacher gives. Students don't necessarily learn solely from test, some students might not be good test takers, so there other ways of assessing your students. You can ask students to write asummary or write about the things they learned in class that day and the things they didn't understand, not for a grade, but to see where your students stand. Then, the next day or at the end of the class that day you can review the material that the students didn't understand and review it with them so that they better understand the material. As a teacher you can give them projects related to the material you are teaching them, so that its not as formal as a test and its a little more fun for everyone. Projects let the students express their creativity and also makes them want to learn, because its better than lecturing them and making them take tests. One, more assessment is having a class discussion, by asking the students questions and making a classroom rule, "that there are no stupid questions" and "the only stupid thing is not asking questions".

These are just a few of many ways to assess students. The videos helped provide more information on how to not solely rely on just givning tests, but to be creative and help your students to better understand the material, because you have to remember as a teacher there are many different types of students who all learn in different ways. So as a teacher reach out to all your students and help every student learn not just one kind of students, such as visual learners.

My name is Leigha Ashmen. As I posted last time I'm a sophomore at SPC, where I'm majoring in Elementary Education and Political Science. I really would like to be either an Elementary School teacher or a Middle School Social Studies teacher. I love playing soccer it's been my life ever since I can remember, so as you probably could have guessed I'm part of the SPC Women's Soccer Team. I grew up in Winslow Township, NJ, which is a half an hour from Philadelphia and Ocean City. I love doing just about everything; sports, hanging with my family, friends and my boyfriend, and getting involved in Bible studies and church activities.

Now, why I wanted to become a school teacher. When I was in Kindergarten I went around telling everybody that I wanted to be a writer or an Elementary School teacher and as I got older I still had the career goal of becoming both of those things. As I looked more into the major requirements I realized that I couldn't major both in Communication and Elementary Education, so I made a decision to study to become a teacher and possibly a Social Studies teacher, for my love of being around children and helping making a difference in their lives, as well as, my love for history and the political systems around the world. Besides school and soccer I work at Victoria Secret, in addition to working all around South Jersey training youth soccer players.

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I'm a sophmore at SPC where I am majoring in Elementary Education and Political Science. I would either like to be an Elementary Teacher or a Middle School Social Studies teacher. I'll be back to write more later! =)