Student Learning Process

1. It is imperative for teachers to not only monitor their students’ behavior in the classroom, but also to assess their students’ literacy development effectively, so they could be ensured of their students’ learning progress, which is the most significant point Tompkins makes in Chapter

Written assessment can be used to give a differentiation of questions to the learner and can be used to judge knowledge at a given level. It also provides a good paper trail. Problems could arise if the learner did not have good reading skills or was dyslexic, evidence could be lost.

It is important to ensure that we meet the need of the students on every level. One effective way to do this is to observe, assess, and record children’s efforts and progress. In this way, an educator can prepare to help a child’s progression in the class. Being able to track and refer to the progress of a child helps to ensure greater levels of success. In the end, our program is only as successful as the children in our care. Record keeping can identify areas that need improvement, and allows us to teach to their strong points.

Running Record is used by teachers to assess students’ reading performance as they read from the benchmark books, specially selected books chose for assessment purpose. It is a very valuable tool to identify patterns in students reading behavior that allows to see strategies students used to make meaning of individual words and texts as a whole. The information teachers get while doing a running record helps to identify error, reading accuracy and students

For example, assessment provides clear measurement and recording of achievement during a course that provides identification of individual

Assessments are the process of evaluating an individual’s learning. They involve generating and collecting evidence of a learner’s attainment of knowledge and skills and judging that evidence against defined standards. Formative Assessments (quizzes and practical tests) are used to

I assess my students at regular intervals. Every time I ask a question to an individual or to a class I am assessing their knowledge and understanding.

Teachers use formative, summative, and informal assessments to determine whether learning has taken place. An assessment can be done before, during and at the end of a unit. Teachers use the data collected from the performance of students to set instructional goals

During the running record assessment, I learned that this process was more difficult than I thought it would be. It was hard to keep up with the student as she read and to make the correct marks on my copy. As I had more practice with this process, it became easier for me to follow along as the student read and to mark my copy correctly. I also learned that there are many different types of running records that can be used to assess students. My host teacher printed the last two assessments from a web page that provided various types of running records for various reading levels.

Every day teachers are required to make decisions before, during and after teaching. Some of these decisions will seem small and insignificant and others will have far reaching consequences. All of the assessment undertaken and subsequent decisions made can potentially enhance teaching and influence student learning outcomes for the better (Brady & Kennedy, 2009). There are numerous things to be assessed and various methods for assessing. One example of this is the assessment of reading. A Running Record is one method of assessing a child’s reading (Hill, 2012). The running record allows the teacher to note a child’s reading behaviour as he or she reads from a chosen text. It examines both the accuracy of reading and the types of

When giving emotional support, I have seen many individuals feeling emotionally barricaded and stifled after a tragic occurrence. Wherever they are in the healing process, the simple act of letting people express how they are feeling without prejudice and acknowledging their feelings can help relieve a victim's interpretation of their situation and help change their own self-talk.

Accurate, factual, up to date Record keeping is a very important part of a teacher’s role. They need to keep effective assessment records for every student. It allows both teacher and the student to reassess the teaching-learning relationship. This identity’s which students need more help, guidance and support and helps them understand what they need to do next to improve their work. This enables the teacher to base their lesson plans on a detailed knowledge of each pupil. Records tell us what has been taught and when. It helps underpin the courses structure by telling us the complete history and progress of both student

On-the-spot assessment is a method of gathering on-the-spot information when observing students while they work independently or in groups. (reference pg. 222) While working as a pre-k teacher I had access to ATI Galileo Pre-k, this is an assessment technology that provides assessments, and curriculum. The program provided a list of learning objectives under several different learning scales. It was our job to do on-the-spot assessments based on our observation list to document individual child’s progress. We would then input the assessments to the system and the program would develop a lesson plan based on what each child had learned. It would also provide specialized activities for children that were ahead or behind the classroom average. On top of using on-the-spot

Research is a big component of a student’s studying process; however, it is hard for universities or other institutions to provide these expensive resources for everyone. A group of individuals at Drexel University’s Department of Biology have observed this problem, and hypothesized that a group of students working with a faculty member on a theoretical research proposal, might be an effective solution (Stanford & Duwel, 2013). Overall, this experiment was designed to view whether writing theoretical research projects can effectively teach students the scientific process.

The purpose of this paper is to build a case on which a student’s reading performance can improve through constant monitoring as well as show how teachers and schools can change practices to gather and use data for the students’ benefit. Moreover, this paper will seek to assist teachers to use data for informed teaching. Data was collected during the course of learning through various assessments and progress monitoring to determine whether the student showed improvement in reading activity.