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Standard 8 The teacher understands and uses formal and informal assessment strategies to evaluate and ensure the continuous intellectual, social, and physical development of the pupil.
 * Teachers know how to test for student progress. **

Evidence 1:

Rationale 1: This lesson was created for 8th grade literacy students during an autobiographical unit. Following the writing process, the students started this assignment by brainstorming at least 5 positive and 5 unfortunate events in their lives. After writing a description for each event, the students edited and revised the description before creating the pages on [|www.storybird.com]. Throughout the writing process, students were being assessed on each task. Once the students created their stories on Storybird, the stories were graded as a formal assessment.

It was important to me to assess throughout the lesson. This allowed me to conference with students and give immediate feedback so students could make any adjustments. Because of the continuous feedback, students’ final stories were done very well. Also, the students really enjoyed using the artists’ picture to enhance their Life Events Story.

KSD 8.K.2 The teacher knows how to select, construct, and use assessment strategies and instruments appropriate to the learning outcomes being evaluated and to other diagnostic purposes. Because writing is a process, I realize the value in assessing throughout a project and not just the final work. This allowed students to make revisions throughout the process.

8.S.6 The teacher maintains useful records of student work and performance and can communicate student progress knowledgeably and responsibly, based on appropriate indicators, to students, parents, and other colleagues. Being able to assess while conferencing with the students, gave me an opportunity to teach on the spot. Students could make revisions to their work during the conference.

8.D.2 The teacher is committed to using assessment to identify student strengths and promote student growth rather than to deny students access to learning opportunities. Using a rubric for the final assessment, allows students to understand what areas they did well in, and if there were any benchmarks they need to improve on. Students are given the opportunity to improve by redoing any benchmark they did not score well on.