Blog Post 6

Session 6: “Reflect on your use of assessment in the classroom.  On a scale of 1 – 10, ten being highest, how would you rate yourself.  What are your plans for becoming a “10” if you are not there already? How are you using assessment in the classroom to guide your instruction?  Describe how assessment results are used to differentiate instruction within your class.”

I think that I rate myself at a 4 on the scale of 1-10 on my use of assessment in the classroom. I do use assessments such as exit tickets and quizzes to monitor the progress of my students and try to use purposeful grouping in the lab. My plan to become a 10 consists of using websites such as Socrative.com, Kahoot!, and Google Classroom to help me make more informal assessments and to gather data prior to the tests and quizzes. Using these tools should make it easier for me to track what students are doing well and which are not.