Oh...the daunting task of assessments. I can honestly state that when I took my class over...there wasn't any evidence of assessments and the numbers given were not to me real. I had to start from scratch and I created my own data sheets. I took each students IEP goals and put into a data sheet that I keep with me at my "green" table and work on daily with each student. As many of our goals are daily collection. I then take those and review once a month to see where we are at with each student. I am going to rate myself pretty low on this as I know I can honestly do better. I would say a 3. It isn't that I am not taking the information in, it's more about being able to use it and critique the goals and have more faith in myself for changing or implementing new goals to get my students where I want them to be.
I know being a new teacher I have a great deal to learn and I want this area to grow. This area is crucial to my students progress, so any little advancement will in turn help them overall. Since I am teaching a much younger group of students than the others in my cadre yes the assessment is important to my lessons. I do a great deal of social learning in my classroom so those integrated into everyday learning is essential. I do a lot of "sharing", kind, unkind, respect teaching even when I talk about coins!
I am planning for next year and I want to create a working plan with my aide to help take more data daily and being able to compile that data in such a format that a teacher, professional, parent could interpret it and understand where that specific student is currently performing.
Christin...you have the right plan. You have identified where data collection is needed and have organized a method(s) to do so. The next step really is the "what do I do with this data?" Or the interpreting the results--what does this tell me about my teaching? About my resources? About my student?
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