Why is it important for teachers to properly interpret student assessment data to adjust lesson plans, differentiate instruction, and improve student learning? Reflecting on your field experiences, do you feel student assessment data is currently being used to improve instruction? Provide specific examples,
As an educator, it is important to analyze your student data to help make meaningful lesson plans that involve differentiation that will help your students thrive inside or outside the classroom.
Data gathered can be an assessment or observations that teachers will build their lessons on and improve skill deficiencies to meet all needs of students inside their classroom (
How Educators Can Use Student Data to Drive Instruction
, 2020).
When I think back on the field experience, student-assessed data is used to help improve instruction inside the classroom. With the age of technology, using data to help plan and have engaging lessons is important for today’s children to make gains. For example, some of my students cannot read beyond a three to four-letter word. With my mentor, we went through my
phonics lessons to find ways for students to quickly recognize and understand complex words.
Beyond the introduction, observational data is collected to see if I must review the skills again or make another modification to see if students really understand the objective or just repeat what they hear their shoulder partner says. For math, a lot of data was collected to see if I have
to use more manipulatives or online tools to help students understand and master the learning target to add more rigorous
questions to further deepen their critical thinking skills.
Reference
How Educators Can Use Student Data to Drive Instruction. (2020, June 11). LSU Online. https://online.lsu.edu/newsroom/articles/how-educators-can-use-student-data-drive-instruction
