1.2 Explain The Importance Of Informal Or Formal Assessment

During the initial assessment, the assessor must introduce themselves to the learner and ensure that they understand what the course is.

The teacher will continuously carry out assessments and reviews taking into consideration the surroundings, the schedule, themselves and their learners in order that aims and objectives are met and

The assessments have been done during and after the lesson in a variety of ways; verbal response, written response, pair and group work, and making posters as a visual outcome.

The causes are one of the many complicated aspects of the autism disorder. Trying to decide how to diagnosis or make a decision on how to assess ASD is another aspect that can be complicated.

During my observation, I was able to observe two students at different grade levels. For my first student, my assessment was based on the criteria of Letter and Sound, Alphabet Knowledge, Site Words and Interest inventory assessments. However, my second assessment was based on the criteria of Running Record, Site Words, and the Interest inventory. Thus within this paper, I will present the data I collected from the assessments of each student.

My students will learn about how we use water, why water is important, absorption, dissolving and float and sink in density. The second week in my water unit has a theme of the water cycle. Each day, the students learn about the different stages in the water cycle. For the preschool students, the water cycle is simplified into four stages, precipitation, condensation, collection and evaporation. In the third week, I decided to expand on the study of different bodies of water. The collection activity used in week two, where my students learned the basics about rivers, lakes and oceans, is used to learn about the biology of animal life. Students first learn about puddles and then expand their exploration into larger bodies of water. My fourth and last week of the month has a mini-theme about weather. To make things exciting I focused on storms and then ended the week learning about rainbows.

So far this year in science we have done many things including the cups activity, Saving Sammy, and measurements. One of my favorite activities was the cup activity. My table group had six cups and an “octopus”, a rubber band with eight strings attached. We were told to make a pyramid with the cups and our group almost had it, but then we knocked it over. Another thing I did was operational definitions for measurement. This is where you create the most specific way to measure something such as a part of the body. For example, to measure your height:

I had a conversation with the head classroom teacher for the student and she outlined the student I assessed, Hamilton Brown, and his diagnosis. He is in the 4th grade and is diagnosed with Developmental Disability, and is in a self-contained Special Education classroom at the Opportunity School program in Oswego, Illinois. Per the interview, I was able to select a few items I believed would have a better chance at being reinforcement items for this specific student. I performed an informal sit-down interview with the teacher and asked her, along with the student’s paraprofessional, about what items he preferred. The teacher told me ultimately, he enjoys eating snacks, preferably sweet ones. Additionally, his favorite

The first day of science was highly enjoyable, I was so excited that we finally get to do some real science projects. In elementary school, we had not worked on science very much. One of my favorite projects that we have done so far was the cup activity where there was a rubber band and eight strings were tied to the rubber band. We each took one piece of the string and we were instructed to work together to try and transfer the rubber band onto the cups, to make a tower. That activity was highly amusing because it taught us how to work together. When Mrs. Cotter realized that we could not work together very well, she gave us another activity to do. She assigned us partners and she gave each pair of partners one piece of string. The pairs of partners were assigned to tie the string around themselves once, then she told us to untie it without letting go of each other's hand. That project was

Hello! I’d like to inform the Fine Arts Dept. that 4th graders will have a Science field trip next 02/15/17 and 02/16/17. Please, make the necessary schedule changes for these dates. Let me know if you have any questions. Sincerely, Mrs. Fabiana G. Araujo.

The first chapter begins with Mini-Math, a sixth grade level math problems. Since my 9th grade class has students with diverse mathematics level, I tried the same practice with the name “Number Talk” similar to ‘warm up’ in my class. That helped my students to recall their basic math that they have learned in the late elementary or early middle school levels. Even the high level students have difficulty

Science learning of the flow chart for an experiment, that they will be doing next week. Made sure they understood every detail of how the experiment would be conducted. They all understood that if one thing was done wrong or missed that they experiment would not turn out. They were answering the work sheet with all the right answers and had the understanding of the steps that they were to follow. The teacher seemed to be teaching the very well because the worksheet showed that they had listened to her in the week before. They were very strong in the knowledge of the steps of the experiment.

Informal assessments includes the observation of everyday performance. This is the method in which teachers collect information about their students’ performance in usual classroom conditions. Informal assessments are a part of the instructional process and can include “systematics observations, work sample analysis, task and error analysis, interviews and questionnaires’” (Sacks, 2011). It is done without establishing test conditions such as in the case of formal assessment. Teachers must be role models for their students by having a passion for what they teach as well as modelling discipline in their lives. “It 's almost impossible to catch a cold from someone who doesn 't have one. And it 's almost impossible for a child to catch the

The purpose of this essay is to compare and contrast the major differences between formal and informal assessments. Some facts that should be noted about these two assessments are that they are designed to evaluate students. Each assessment evaluates, measures, and gathers information on students. Results obtained are used in a variety of ways to determine students’ academic standings, special education services eligibility and other areas that determine their academic future. There are several differences and similarities, however, the focus of this paper will be on the comparison of major differences between the two assessments. Another important fact is that the two types of tests or evaluations may have long-term or short-term educational

Students at Primary school are very energetic, active, and curious and tends to participate classroom activities actively because of their age. Therefore, according to DCRD (2012) the main objectives of science at this stage are to nurture the curiosity of the learner about the world, engage learners in investigation, perform simple experiments, and develop love towards the nature and to provide scientific skills for later stage of science studies in their