Standard 4: Assessment

Refocus on Assessment

There has been several professional learning opportunities for the Stronge Teaching Standards this year, so I'd like to come back around to one of the standards that will be on the forefront of your thinking this week: Standard 4: Assessment. Stronge's work with teaching standards provides a solid foundation in best practices that will lead to high levels of student growth and achievement.  Let's look at a couple of opportunities this week to refocus on assessment.

Standard 4: Assessment

The teacher systematically gathers, analyzes, and uses relevant data to measure student progress, guide instructional content and delivery methods, 

and provide timely feedback to students, parents, and stakeholders.

Monday's Day 6/PLC

This is a purposeful opportunity for you to share the F&P of a student with your colleague, one that you're not sure how to report progress on.  Use this time to calibrate your thinking on how to most effectively measure student progress, as well as to determine how to best provide feedback about the student's progress with parents.

Collaboratively looking at a student's F&P will also provide an opportunity for a discussion about what to do next.  You have been working with these students all year, trying to identify what is going to work - use the professional knowledge of your partner to brainstorm next steps for instructional delivery methods.

Report Cards:

This is our second opportunity to provide feedback about the student's progress with parents.  You have been gathering, analyzing, and using relevant data to measure student progress, and now are providing feedback about this progress with parents.  Much of this was probably already shared at conferences, but our progress reports give parents a full picture of their child's progress in school.

This week will be busy, with the anticipation of spring break, getting things organized for report cards, students missing school... but in the few moments of calm, use your natural assessment abilities to look at where students were in the fall, where they are now, and where you want them to be by year's end.  And above all, use your assessment data to celebrate the growth you've seen so far this year!