7Q: Making Accomodations For Individual Students

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7Q: uses various types of assessment procedures appropriately, including making accommodations for individual students in specific contexts

5I: uses multiple teaching strategies, including adjusted pacing and flexible grouping, to engage students in active learning opportunities that promote the development of critical and creative thinking, problem-solving, and performance capabilities.

1H: analyzes and uses student information to design instruction that meets the diverse needs of students and leads to ongoing growth and achievement.

PA 24: Find 5 test questions in the teacher’s manual. In a discussion with your cooperating teacher, evaluate each to determine their value. What do they assess i.e. content, a skill, ability to analyze, reading for meaning, graph interruption, summarizing, etc.? How do they help to drive the instruction? …show more content…

Corcoran does not use a textbook with questions and teacher’s answer solutions, but she does use Origo, math warm-up packets, and TouchMath General Math. The value of the math warm-up is to use the packet as data given evidence to evaluate if each student is progressing to make their annual or three-year goal and benchmarks. Mrs. Corcoran tries to have the students complete the math warm-ups independently with little to no assistance, and will ask a teacher to review their math warm-up packet to check for errors. The assessment is formative assessment, or skills/tasks forming over time. The math applications are addition, subtraction, multiplication, word problems, division, elementary algebra, and sequences. The math warm-up packets help drive instruction by assessing what students need to improve on and what students can achieve. I learned practice over time can help students understand math applications and math warm-up packets can serve for several

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