Standard8

Home **  Standard1 / Standard2 / Standard3 / Standard4 / Standard5 / Standard6 / Standard7 / Standard8 / Standard9 / Standard10  ** **Standard 8** ** Teachers know how to test for student progress. ** The teacher understands and uses formal and informal assessment strategies to evaluate and ensure the continuous intellectual, social, and physical development of the pupil.

** Evidence 1 ** : Math Magician to test and document student progress.

http://www.oswego.org/ocsd-web/games/mathmagician/cathymath.html

** Rationale 1 ** : This website is used to track my student’s progress with math facts. They choose one fact to test and “pass it” if they get a 95% or higher on their score. I verify the score with a signature that they keep track of on a graph. After they completely finish one operation, they create a digital graph of their scores using Microsoft Excel. This creates data to show parents at parent teacher conferences.

This process was developed to help me track where my students are with their basic fact knowledge. This is an ongoing assessment throughout the entire year. Students need to meet specific benchmarks, first quarter they should finish addition, second quarter subtraction, third quarter multiplication and fourth quarter division. This has allowed me to differentiation instruction in the classroom at an individual level.

** KSD ** 8.K.2 The teacher knows how to select, construct, and use assessment strategies and instruments appropriate to the learning outcomes being evaluated and to other diagnostic purposes. // The students use this site for approximately 15 minutes per week to see which facts they know. They also have other sites to help them practice when they cannot pass a level. //

8.S.5 The teacher monitors his or her own teaching strategies and behaviors in relation to student success, modifying plans and instructional approaches accordingly. // Using this site as an educator has allowed me to accurately assess and then focus my teaching appropriately. I have been able to set up a parent volunteer system, as well as a 4th grade mentor program to help my students improve their basic fact knowledge. //

8.D.1 The teacher values ongoing assessment as essential to the instructional process and recognizes that many different assessment strategies, accurately and systematically used, are necessary for monitoring and promoting student learning. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">// This process allows students to take ownership of their learning. They know exactly which facts to practice at home and have other tools online to help them. //