I think one of the biggest challenges I will face as a
teacher is assessing and evaluating students based on the goals and learning
objectives that are established. The handout article “Assessing and Evaluating
Students’ Learning” has helped me understand the point of evaluation. In the
article, they mentioned that evaluation should help students understand what they
are doing and how well are they executing it, show students how they can
improve, and “ways of self-assessing so that they determine what they need to do to improve. This article
mentions different ways to evaluate and teach students how to do self-evaluations.
The method I found to be most appealing was “using portfolios to evaluate growth
and reflection.” Portfolios help students see their growth over time, and “by
comparing students’ performance over time, you could then determine the degree
to which students were changing.” This not only shows students their growth
over time, but it gives students and idea of how they can continue to grow as
well.
The
online article had a sentence that really stood out to me – “When a student
makes progress they feel motivated and more successful because enhancing
perceived competence is motivating in and of itself.” I really like this quote
because of its value. People in general tend to make progress when they feel
confident in their work. This leads to the motivation and drive to continue.
The online article I found to be a very insightful tool for parents or future
teachers because it thoroughly explains how grading works, and what is the point
of it. To me, grading and report cards can be discouraging for students. I don’t
think that grades define a student. Every student has a different learning style,
and some students may not benefit in homework or some students don’t preform well
on tests. But, to grade each student the same way is not fair to every student,
but then how do we grade students accordingly?
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