Assessment
Practical Application #4
As students are learning, they are making connections are progressing through the stages of growth from emergent to proficient. At the emergent stage, students need more guided and direct instruction and are more dependent on rules and modeling. As learners develop more skills and understanding, they gain confidence and are more efficient in their problem-solving strategies. Teachers can use assessment as a tool to monitor this growth of their students. It is important to value and understand their progress and scaffold their learning as they develop further. Teachers can use this as a type of assessment to adjust instruction and provide feedback. Students will begin to value their own learning and develop confidence as they progress forward. I would consider myself at the emergent stage when I am assigned a project with abstract directions and outcomes. I develop a feeling of anxiety and find myself seeking out rules and definite answers. To become more efficient in this area, I have noticed that it is important that I learn to trust my skills and willingness to learn. I have proven to myself that I am competent and proficient in my work and I need to use prior knowledge and patterns and adapt to context that I see best fit. I …show more content…
When teachers use assessment with the students they develop the ability to assess themselves and become aware of their metacognition and habits of mind. The teachers role in Assessment as Learning is to model and guide students to become independent learning, develop their own thinking and internal feedback. It is important to create a classroom environment cultivates confidence, responsibility, independence, and proficiency for self reflection. An example of this assessment is as