INTASC+Standard+8

__**STANDARD:**__ The teacher understands and uses formal and informal assessment strategies to evaluate and ensure the continuous intellectual, social and physical development of the learner.
 * __INTASC Standard 8__**

INTASC.8.D D: 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.
 * __Specific Category of Standard 8__****__:__**

The teacher uses many different varieties of evaluation in regards to his or her student’s performance. The teacher understands and implements all different kinds of performance evaluation from a formal examination to informal observations. It is imperative the teacher uses different forms of assessment to gauge and evaluate where her or her students are performing not only in the academic sense but also in the social and physical development of the student.
 * __Understanding Sentence:__**

__**Artifacts:**__ Evaluation and assessment are absolutely necessary when I teach. I need to constantly be assessing my students to see how they are progressing, where they are at in the subject, what their weak points are, where their strengths lie, and how I can assist as a teacher to further develop my students.
 * Math Bell Ringer **[[file:Math Bell Ringer.pub]]**
 * Tackle the TAKS **[[file:Tackle the TAKS.pub]]**
 * __Reflect__****:**

I learned a lot about the importance of small informal assessment throughout my educational career at UNT. Both of my artifacts are examples of on the spot assessments of how a student retained the material from the past class. My artifacts are informal assessments that are usually done at the beginning of the lesson. It lets me assess my student’s daily and in a relatively short amount of time. I basically will put the page up at the beginning of the class and the students will come in and fill it out. We will use this to review what was taught previously and re-teach anything that was not originally understood. It will be a simple way for me to get a grade every day. By doing so many of these informal assessments, it will get the students comfortable to being assessed and this will help decrease the students fear of tests since we will do them every day and they are not worth as much. It is a great replacement for a quiz because it is not as stressful. This gives me instant feedback as to what I need to work with my students on. The Tackle the TAKS artifact can be used inside the class time as well. I can put one to two problems up just after I finish teaching the content. This shows the student what a test question could look like and it spreads out the TAKS study throughout the year so we will not have to cram it all the last few months. Both of these artifacts are very easy to grade since it will be a quick check mark if it is correct. You could even have the students switch with a partner and have peers grade. The skills that would be covered will be previously taught and that need to be reinforced. This helps students not lose content that they already mastered. This helps all processes stay fresh in their minds. You can even have students call out their answers or students can model to their peers on the large board.  **__Project:__** These artifacts show that I am dedicated to assessment. I understand the importance of formal and informal assessments. Assessment is a major component in my educational philosophy. It is my job to make sure my students leave my classroom understanding the material I teach. It does no good if I teach the content, yet no student can perform it on an assessment. I plan on constantly giving small assessments throughout my class period. I need feedback from my students to make sure they are engaged and understand what I am teaching. Personally, I believe more in informal assessments because students can often have anxiety for formal assessments and not perform to their fullest. Also formal assessments have some internal bias that hurts the student's chance at succeeding. My future classroom will be filled with tiny assessments that allow for feedback like these bell ringers and TAKS questions. My students will feel comfortable to say answers aloud and participate in the learning. My personal style of learning includes many checkpoints in the learning. I like to have little evaluations of what I actually know. I do this through personal quizzes that I create to make sure I understand what I am learning. If I do not check myself I find that I think I know things when I really do not. I plan to include this concept in my classroom too. I do not want to assume that my classroom understands something just because I taught it. I will create small quizzes that asses my student's retention and understanding.