Number Four.

March 10, 2015: How Does the Teacher Manage Assessment?
In my second grade classroom the teacher has many different ways of how she manages her assessment. Because I am in her classroom when she does reading/writing time I have only seen her do those assessments. During writing time, she usually has anywhere from one to three kids come to the back table with her. She watches how they write, how their spelling is, how well they stay focused, etc. I think that this is a good way to assess a couple students at a time. And it works well for her class. During reading time, she has the rest of the class silent read while she pulls one kid to the back table to read to her. At this time she listens to their pronunciation, how fast they read and how well they read. This to me is an excellent way of assessing them short term and long term. Because she goes through each student and so she can see how they are doing a couple months apart from each reading.

I have really learned a lot from this teacher. She is such a good teacher and she really knows how to keep her kids in line. I like seeing all of the different things that she does because it gives me good ideas on what I want to do and what I may not want to do when I am finally a teacher. In assessment I am not really fond of how she does the writing assessment because she always pulls the same students to the back table to watch them. I think she should possibly switch them every time like she does with reading. I know she is trying to help those few kids get up to benchmark, but I think it would be a good idea to see how all of the kids are doing as well.