Multiple Means of Student Assessment

These performance tests will be beneficial for problem solving tasks, manipulation of objects, construction activities, and identifying patterns and relationships. Performance tasks can be evaluated in real-learning situations or learning centers through teacher observation using a rubric with performance indicators. This way, the teacher can describe the mathematical processes that the student is capable of doing, rather that simply assigning an arbitrary letter grade, which only compares a student with his or her peers. Achievement tests have their place in the evaluation process. While the process is nearly as important as the product, as educators, we want students to be solving problems appropriately.

Through collaborative efforts, teachers can gain knowledge about the students and new ways to teach according to different learning styles. Working together, each student can receive an individualized education where their full potential is used. The students in our classrooms, both special education and general education classrooms, require individualized education to reach their full potential. Each child’s potential is different just as each child’s road to reach it is different. Our job as teachers is to be there for the student’s to help them reach their potential through their own unique way.

With issues ranging from class size, fixed budgets, how every student learns differently, students with special needs, advanced students to inequality among different levels of students it is a challenge for educators to overcome. • Differences Among Students: Students must be accommodated in their diverse educational need in order for the educator to be accomplished in their job. Students of the same age can be different in their willingness to learn, in their interests, what style of learning works best for them, their experiences, and home circumstances( Wikipedia). Some students are eager to learn while others are resistant to learning. There are also students who are adva... ... middle of paper ... ...on in today`s schooling is Differentiating Instruction, which is simply to change ones teaching methods to help cater to each individual student’s needs.

Classroom assessments help educators identify students strengths and weakness, monitor student learning and progress as well as plan and conduct instruction. Many question rather to use the more formal standardized testing or authentic learning strategies including the Multiple Intelligence (MI) theory. Classroom assessments can do more than measure learning. How educators access and communicate the results send a clear message to students about what is worth learning, how we expect them to perform as well as how it should be learned. Linking instruction and assessment is critical to effective learning.

Those Pre-services teacher who scan both problematic and effective experiences develop more in their teaching SRL strategies. On the other side those who only focused problematic experiences not adapt SRL strategies. By merging two more factors; learning from problems (LFP) and learning from successes (LFS) into SRL model, pre-service teachers can enhance their confidence and experiences and the most important thing that how they can assist there students in learning SRL strategies in class room and promote the ideology of SRL.

Differentiated menus allow students choice when committing to a task or taking on a learning experience. Differentiated menus provide tiered assignments all leading toward the same objects that allow students to choose how they will learn and demonstrate their learning. Diane Heacox (2012) an author and expert in providing tools that allow teachers to differentiate in their own classrooms defines tiered assignments as, “…differentiated learning tasks and projects that you develop based on your diagnosis of students’ needs” (p.97). Tomlinson (2001) views tiered assignments as a powerful strategy essential within a differentiated classroom to enable students to learn at their appropriate readiness level. When tiered assignments are provided they are not harder or easier’ they are simply avenues for students to achieve objectives at an appropriate level.

For teachers, non-linguistic cues or representations are an effective alternative method in the process of delivering language and content instruction. In this essay, I will discuss why non-linguistic representations work differently than linguistic methods. I will also evaluate selected Teachscape video to discuss how some teachers use these methods, tasks that allow English Language Learner students to develop authentic use of their new language, and the difference between a student-centered and a teacher-centered classroom. When a student learns a new concept, that information is stored in one of two ways - linguistically or non-linguistically. Traditional instructional methods present new concepts linguistically to students; in other words, by having them read and/or listen to the information they are expected to learn.

Today 's classroom sees your child as an individual who has strengths and weaknesses, whose academic and social needs are met in order for them to succeed. Today 's classroom incorporates multiple ways to learn. There are three main learning styles: auditory, visual, and kinesthetic. Firstly is to understand what the preferred preference of the student 's’ learning style is so you can support it. That being said, that style can change because of what is being taught or what he/ she is doing.

Abstract Today’s classrooms are filled with diverse learners who differ not only culturally and linguistically but also in their cognitive abilities, background knowledge, and learning preferences. Faced with such diversity, many schools are implementing differentiated instruction in an effort to effectively address all students’ learning needs. Although experts and practitioners acknowledge that the research on differentiated instruction as a specific practice is limited, solid research validates a number of practices that provide the foundation of differentiation. These practices include using effective classroom management procedures; promoting student engagement and motivation; assessing student readiness; responding to learning styles;

Therefore, it needs to be an important skill that is learned and used proficiently in order for a student to succeed in the real world. There are many techniques that educators can use to help improve a student’s reading comprehension. One of these skills that needs to be directly and explicitly taught is learning how to read fluently for comprehension. “To comprehend texts, the reader must be a fluent decoder and not a laborious, word-by-word reader” (Kameenui, 252). Comprehension can be difficult for students with learning disabilities because they tend to be the students that are reading below grade level.