J Jacob Data Driven Online Reading Journal

In what ways does assessment help create a highly effective learning environment? Explain your answer in 1 paragraph. The website Teach Thought had a great graphic that outlined 10 characteristics of a Highly effective learning environment. In some of these characteristics, assessment can actually lead to the creation of a highly effective learning environment. These characteristics are as follows. First, a ssessment is persistent, authentic, transparent, and never punitive. Assessment should only be about evaluating student progress and providing feedback to help them improve. Second, c riteria for success is balanced and transparent.  Criteria on assessments should be balanced and transparent in terms of the skills needed to be demonstrated. Standards Based Grading should be communicated with clarity. Third, t here are constant opportunities for practice.  Opportunities for practice can lead to formative assessments, as students practice the content, the teach...

In your Reading Journal, predict how you think your colleagues will respond to the prompt:    Before taking a deep dive in the reasoning for or against standardized testing, my initial idea (and my prediction of my colleagues ideas) is that  standardized testing is better than the alternative of not having a standardized assessment system. I believe that standardized testing provides a lot of benefits for schools across the country. They provide set standards for everyone and serve as a summative assessment towards the end of the year. However, most teacher's also recognize the strain that standardized testing takes on students,teachers, and schools to succeed. But teachers also recognize that standardized testing allow students all across the state or country to be held to the same standard and evaluate which areas could use more support.  In your Reading Journal, jot down main points for and against standardized testing. Be sure to use evidence from this ...

Context:  In my upcoming unit, my students will be spending 12 days of open investigation that will eventually showcase science and experimental design in action.  The unit ends with a large science fair that allows students to present their investigations and results to other students, teachers, school leaders, and families. Student displays feature visuals, interactive components, hands-on models, and trifold or posters that contain explanations of student work. On these tri-folds or posters, students will articulate why their project is an important contribution to the scientific community and share data and conclusions from their experiment. Students will start off by developing interesting and testable questions with the assistance of their teacher. The questions they create will be centered around their curiosity about the world around them and the need to solve a problem within their community. Once the students have refined their questions to test, they are then able t...