Assessments

I was interested to hear about how my teacher does assessments in each subject. She said that in each subject she does it slightly differently. In reading and writing she does it very personal and meets with each of the children. She has spelling tests that work on directly what the kids need, and has a word program that adjusts to every child. It is actually a very interesting program. Where the kids go wrong, the program adjusts just to them. I would definitely consider using that technique. They also have to have specific words, write sentences with them and draw pictures to show that they understand. With writing, they write stories and draw storyboards to express and show what they are feeling. Writing isn’t tested as specifically as some of the other subjects.

            In math she does what they we learned in the module. She does pre and post tests. She said she finds that so beneficial in math and a lot of the kids like it because they can see the progress that they are making. It really makes a difference. In science, the have unit tests at the end and a few quizzes in between. Since it is fourth grade, they have a large comprehensive final at the end. Social studies isn’t something as widely regarded state and nation wide, yet they still do have tests throughout.

            Overall, there are a lot of different techniques that she uses and she adjusts them for each of the subjects