My Final Reflection -Assessment Technology

The article Turn Your Classroom into a Personalized Learning Environment by Robin Howton stuck with me. It gives educators great tips that we can apply professionally and in the classroom. The first suggestion in the article is to collaborate with colleagues and students. Educators need to find out what works in their classrooms and adapt their own. Educators need to make learning accessible to students. Giving them a voice in their own learning. Let students use the technology we have in our classroom so students can show their expertise.  Students should be ambassadors of their own learning. We need provided students with choices and leading opportunities to become active participants in their own learning.

 Students learn best from one another and when they are motivated about a topic. Planning and assessing is a key tool that needs to be flexible and organic. Educators need to feel the pulse of their classroom, we should determine the next steps of the lesson. We need to provide student center activities. We need to be prepared for individualized learning and abilities of our students. We, the teachers need to provide varied opportunities where students can demonstrate the standard proficiency through formative assessment and continues feedback. Formative assessment should drive instruction.

Through this class, I have learned as educators a lot. I learn the importance of feedback in our student's growth. I now think about assessment as a tool that I use every day at every moment informally in my classroom observations, student’s digital portfolio on Seesaw, 1 to 1 discussions. Before I used to think more about assessment as a very formal inflexible mandate. I think that this course has help me become more creative by making assessment and progress monitoring more accessible and fun for my students for example by giving my students the opportunity to investigate about a topic during a block of time, letting them choose a project in which they can demonstrate what they learned, creating badges for accomplishments, and using and creating rubric with students so there is bite in from all parties involved. I continue learning through the discussion, articles, work I and my peers have created.