INTASC+Standard+8

STANDARD: The teacher understands and uses formal and informal assessment strategies to evaluate and ensure the continuous intellectual, social and physical development of the learner.
 * INTASC Standard 8**

INTASC.8.A K: The teacher understands the characteristics, uses, advantages, and limitations of different types of assessments (e.g. criterion-referenced and norm-referenced instruments, traditional standardized and performance-based tests, observation systems, and assessments of student work) for evaluating how students learn, what they know and are able to do, and what kinds of experiences will support their further growth and development. INTASC.8.B K: The teacher knows how to select, construct, and use assessment strategies and instruments appropriate to the learning outcomes being evaluated and to other diagnostic purposes.
 * Specific Category of Standard 8**

The teacher knows that all students learn different ways and is able to provide the class with two different types of assessments. One being hands on and the other more instruction based. The teacher understands the continuous development of students and assesses their development through different types of assessments.
 * Understanding Sentence**


 * Artifacts**
 * Running Record [|Running Record.doc]
 * Living/Non living organism lesson plan [|Inductive Lesson Plan.doc]

The artifact that I chose for this INTASC is a running record that I have done with a child. This type of assessment is a formal assessment specifically used to evaluate the intellectual progress of the learner. This running record shows me what my students knows in literacy and what I can do to further enhance their literacy experience to get them further along in the curriculum. This type of assessment is one of many used by teachers to evaluate and ensure continuous intellectual learning for the student. Running records allow me to keep up with the progress a student has made in literacy and help me gain a new understanding and focus point for the next assessment. It also helps me to determine diagnostic placement for a child according to the progress they should be making in the school year. I understand where they are at in the process of literacy and what strategies I will come up with in the future to get them further along. The second artifact I chose is an Inductive lesson plan for science. At the end of this lesson plan is an evaluation and assessment on what the students learned in the lesson. Evaluations and assessments are a good tool to have at the end of each lesson plan a teacher does so she can see what the child knows and what they learned from the lesson plan. It also helps the teacher make a decision on whether or not they need to continue with that specific lesson plan based on the students understanding and knowledge of the lesson.
 * Reflect**

As a learner I have had many experiences with assessments and how effective they can be in the learning process for all students. These artifacts show that I am a good learner and want to be well prepared in giving an assessment to my students. I also want to use these assessments to create a positive and developing learning environment for all my students so they can advance in any of the curriculum given. This shows that I am becoming a very knowledgeable teacher who wants her students to learn as much as they can in school. It is getting me prepared for all the things I will have to teach and assess in my classroom. My future practice will consist of these artifacts because I want to make sure I am doing them right and having an impact and wide range of assessments to help encourage my students learning. These artifacts show that I really care about the progress of my students and want to help them in every way I can so they can learn any subject.
 * Project**