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In the United States, formative, and summative assessments play a large role in the education of today’s students. Summative tests are typically the biggest assessments of the year for students, teachers, and the district. In order to find out more information in regards to formative, and summative assessments, I interviewed Colette Alonge-Watz, a high school chemistry teacher. Colette has been teaching chemistry for 21 years in various schools, and for the past six years has been at Millbrook High School, in Millbrook New York. Colette prefers to use formative assessments frequently and summative assessments at the end of a big unit. For instance, she uses formative assessment in her classroom, such as do now’s, exit tickets, lab questions, and review…

about how geometry is used in everyday situations and question why and the challenge questions were designed to encourage student to take their skills and knowledge and apply them to unknown situations. However, after observing my supervising teacher, who explained the marking criteria during all lessons, I would actively engage in further professional learning, to develop a level of understanding of the marking criteria and that I can incorporate the information into my lessons in the future…

For my final portfolio, I chose to revise a shorter essay, “Potential Ramifications of a Trump Presidency,” and a longer essay, “Assignment 7: Finding Place Research Project.” I chose these two essays specifically because of their differences. The former is shorter, more informal, and includes more of my thoughts and opinions. The latter is a longer research paper, and thus is more formal and less biased as I attempted to give a brief history of gentrification and its impacts on East Liberty.…

My long-range curriculum map was designed for 3rd grade math. When I originally designed this map, math was entirely outside of my comfort zone. I did fairly well at math in elementary school; however, I have tried to help my younger brother with his math since then and I no longer excel in it. This affected my ability to feel confident when designing the units. Fortunately, this did help my perspective as an educator because I can understand how some students might struggle. Nonetheless,…

understand professional growth requires growing pains should not be assessors in the first place. I also understand the concern that perhaps not enough assessors are being trained to replace those about to leave the workforce. However, shortening the certification programs or offering unprofessional home study based programs cannot be the answer. The public deserves professionally trained assessor because they depend on assessors to perform professionally. The most logical answer to…

The name of the student I will be describing is Jose Garza. He is 8 years enjoys playing video games. Jose lives with his father, mother and sister Lisa. Jose’s parents can only speak Spanish and are immigrants from Mexico. Jose and his family came to the United States when he was only 2 years old and has been attending school ever since. His sister is the only other person who can speak limited English in his house. Jose is currently attending Grande Elementary School and has been closely…

This writing class I hoped to learn some new material that can help in my future and my writing skills for other course. For this semester my expectation it was to get better on my grammar errors and connect sentence together, this are my expectations to develop after I finish this course to get a little bit better on it. It have been having difficult when I was in high school. Some of the plans that I had was to get some workshops that can help me in the writing class. Not everyone had the…

Assessment is the process used to gather information in order to develop an in-depth understanding of a student 's knowledge and a way to determine what they have learnt during a particular programme or course. Ann Gravells states that assessment is a way to ascertain if the learner has gained the required skills and knowledge needed towards their programme of learning. Assessment can also be used to determine any additional support needs a learner may have to ensure they are met efficiently.…

University of Maryland University College ITEC 626 Midterm Exam Name: . Answer all questions clearly; For Questions 2 through 12: explain your answer; show all your work to earn full credit. Please note that answers without explanations, will not receive credit. All explanations should be in your words. Please do NOT quote any source. Answers with-line quotes or/and…

We are at the halfway point of Week 3! I have posted all of your discussion board grades for Week 2. I will have the grades posted for your Unit 2 Assignments by midnight on Thursday CST. We had some GREAT posts and “conversations” during Week 2. You have initial Discussion posts due Thursday at midnight CST for your Unit 3.1 and 3.2 Discussions. Your responses to at least two other learners are due by Sunday at midnight. After you make an initial post and respond to two of your…