Module 5 Discussion (1)

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How can principals and school leaders develop competencies in utilizing formative and summative assessment practices and data to inform and guide curriculum development and instruction at their schools? How can classroom and school-based assessment tools provide teachers with the knowledge and skills required to meet the needs of diverse learners? How can embracing assessment be a positive step towards data-based decision making in education? What are the obstacles for improving assessment strategies on your campus? How can principals and educational leaders effectively explore and describe options for maximizing all available resources to develop an action plan to address student performance issues on their campus? How can principals and school leaders influence new approaches by changing philosophical ideas about assessment at their schools? Principals and school leaders need to hold their staff to a specific standard when it comes to utilizing formative and summative assessments. Formative and summative assessments allow teachers and administration to collect data and use it to guide future decisions on curriculum, development and instruction within their schools. Without utilizing assessments, there may be achievement gaps that cannot be addressed because there is no academic data to prove so. This is also true for classroom teachers being able to meet the specific and diverse needs of their learners. The data from assessments shows classroom teachers where there is more of a need in differentiated instruction, or a management need/ accommodation that the students may need in order to show mastery. The needs of students change all the time. They also vary from topic to topic, this is why it is important for teachers to collect data from the different units to see where students struggle the most to plan for proper intervention. Data is what reveals which areas need to be met in order to improve individual student learning (Miller, 2020). Holding assessments in the classroom is one of the most reliable ways to collect data. By collecting the data, you are creating an information pool to make decisions with. Although there are many other ways to collect and interpret data, by holding assessments with the students who attend the school, you are make decisions strictly based on your specific population and their specific needs. Improving assessment strategies within my school has been a challenge we have faced over the last year and a half with remote learning. The improvement seemed to be more difficult for the math department, because how can you see students show their understanding and work while on a computer. It was a very long year trying to figure out different ways to be able to truly assess students understanding in mathematics. Now that we have moved out of Remote Learning, we are not as worried any longer, but it is still a possibility that we would need to go remote again and will need to figure out how to again.
Going back to remote learning, school leaders and principals were able to exhaust their resources to assist in helping teachers find the proper resources for students to succeed during remote learning. They were able to reassign part of the budget to send staff to PD’s to learn about new strategies and practices and were also able to spend money on different programs and technologies to assist in needing to still assess their students through the virtual classrooms. Principals and school leaders are able to influence new approaches by introducing their staff to new ideas and trying to sway their opinion on them. Often times, teachers are set in their ways and are stubborn to conform, however, if a school leader strongly believes in something, they will work to get their staff to also believe in that. School leaders and principals have the ability to prove to their staff that new practices can work. References: Miller, Joyce Kyle. (Course Lecturer). (2020). Part four: Data-Based Decision Making: Module 5 [Video]. American College of Education. Retrieved from http://ace.edu
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