​ ​ Assessment

​Measuring students' learning through evaluation is important as it provides both instructors and

students with useful feedback on the extent to which students successfully meet learning goals.

Some of the goals of examining these common evaluations are to have educators discuss and

analyze their style and content of question-writing, individual plans for student success, and an

opportunity to examine what changes need to be made during curriculum planning and

classroom instruction. It involves teachers as well to improve their teaching styles to identify

our strengths and weaknesses, we as teachers also struggle to find another way to teach the

curriculum. To measure students' weaknesses and strengths all schools have a statewide test that

is called AzMERIT these assessment is given to students at the end of April or May these

performance how students are doing in English, Math and Writing.

Scores are given to parent in mail at the end of the summer in between June or July this

measures whether our students are on track to succeed or whether he/she needs to spend extra

time learning a subject. Evaluations can be effective tools to support our students. The state

needs this information so that they have an idea that teachers are actually teaching the

curriculum. Even though every teacher has their own teaching style students are to be taught

what the district hands them it doesn't really matter how they teach it, it's just a matter of fact that

they are actually teaching our students the curriculum, for example in the second grade

classroom the teacher designed different stations she has an app called class dojo and she presses

a button and choses the groups, students have a chance to be in different groups.
I was told to help students with math activities, we had shaving cream placed on the table and

students were to use their finger to write out numbers, using their fingers was like having

therapy. This assessment is espectacular because we got some of our schoolers to pick up a

pencil. Students are improving little by little. English was measured by having students matching

letters and saying the sound while we had them matching the letters. Most of the time this

activity didn't work so we had to come up with a different ideas so that our students were able

to understand the Alphabet. We sang the ABC’s and were asked what letter it was, sound and

visual of what starts with that letter.

For example, my second graders are learning to subtract digit numbers, most of the students did

not have an idea on how to borrow one number. My mentor asked me if I had any other idea of

teaching it and, yes I did. I explained to the students that when the number on top is too small

and aren't able to subtract then it time to ask or knock to our neighbor tens to let us borrow on

number so that number bigger than the number on the bottom. Once strategy was shown to the

student most of them got it but some still had trouble figuring out. Therefore my mentor asked

me to help them in small groups. I was given different types of activities as I was working with

them I got to discover that some didn't know how to subtract with one digit numbers. The

problem was they didn't know how to subtract from the beginning. Now that most of the students

know how to use that strategy they are able to apply it when they take the AzMerit. Giving our

students more strategy to use is more effective in their learning.