Assessment
Teaching Portfolio Rationale/Reflection
SAU Effective Teaching Domain: Assessment
Title: Teaching Portfolio
Context: EDU 429: Effective Teaching Strategies
Date: March, 2013
During the Effective Teaching Strategies class I took in the spring of 2013, I put together a digital portfolio to represent myself as a future teacher. This website includes a management profile, assessment profile, and teaching strategies profile, each representing what I have learned and my future plans as an educator. In my assessment profile, I provide a detailed account of my plans for assessment, grading, and data in my future upper elementary classroom. While putting this profile together, I spent many hours researching a variety of assessment theorists and identifying theories and procedures I feel will be ideal for my own classroom. I also used my own experience from teaching in classrooms to contribute to my assessment plan. This artifact clearly demonstrates my competency in assessment because it provides a detailed and well-researched account of my plans, as well as fabricated examples, for assessment in my own classroom.
While completing this portfolio, I learned that there is a great deal more to assessment in a classroom than I may have originally thought. I also learned the importance of having a specific plan for assessment, grading, and data. Having this specific plan allows a teacher to determine whether students are learning and what he/she can do to increase their learning. Assessment is incredibly important in teaching because it is the measure by which teachers and students determine what they have learned. Although I feel fairly confident in the area of assessment, I will increase my skill in this area by conducting ongoing research into effective assessment strategies and by adapting my assessment strategies as I discover what does and does not work.
SAU Effective Teaching Domain: Assessment
Title: Teaching Portfolio
Context: EDU 429: Effective Teaching Strategies
Date: March, 2013
During the Effective Teaching Strategies class I took in the spring of 2013, I put together a digital portfolio to represent myself as a future teacher. This website includes a management profile, assessment profile, and teaching strategies profile, each representing what I have learned and my future plans as an educator. In my assessment profile, I provide a detailed account of my plans for assessment, grading, and data in my future upper elementary classroom. While putting this profile together, I spent many hours researching a variety of assessment theorists and identifying theories and procedures I feel will be ideal for my own classroom. I also used my own experience from teaching in classrooms to contribute to my assessment plan. This artifact clearly demonstrates my competency in assessment because it provides a detailed and well-researched account of my plans, as well as fabricated examples, for assessment in my own classroom.
While completing this portfolio, I learned that there is a great deal more to assessment in a classroom than I may have originally thought. I also learned the importance of having a specific plan for assessment, grading, and data. Having this specific plan allows a teacher to determine whether students are learning and what he/she can do to increase their learning. Assessment is incredibly important in teaching because it is the measure by which teachers and students determine what they have learned. Although I feel fairly confident in the area of assessment, I will increase my skill in this area by conducting ongoing research into effective assessment strategies and by adapting my assessment strategies as I discover what does and does not work.