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A. Blooms mastery learning approach involving formative assessments is what I believe to be an excellent way to track student learning. In the Guskey (2005) article Guskey informs the reader that Blooms formative assessment approach to mastery of learning is set out in a specific way. The teacher plans his or her unit of instruction. After some instruction is given to students the teacher will give a formative assessment to see what the students have mastered thus far. From there the teacher can give more instruction to help students who are struggling or incorporate some enrichment activity’s to follow (Guskey, 2005). This type of assessment seems to be a good approach to teaching because it gives teachers an idea of where his or her students are. What I would like to see differently with this design is more formative assessments throughout a unit. Instead of just one or two like blooms states, I think students and teachers would benefit from multiple formative assessments throughout the units. When teachers give multiple formative assessments throughout a unit it helps the teacher see if there are any misconceptions students may have.
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My current teaching relates very much to blooms approach to formative assessments. I like using formative assessments in my classroom because it is a quick and easy way to see if my students are understanding the content being taught or if I need to go back and teach content again. I also like how formative assessments allows for myself to conference with a student about his or her formative assessment results. This allows for me to touch base with a student as well as talk them through what I am seeing. I think using formative assessments really is so important in the teaching process because it is very important to be sure we know where our students are at before we get to far along in a
A. Blooms mastery learning approach involving formative assessments is what I believe to be an excellent way to track student learning. In the Guskey (2005) article Guskey informs the reader that Blooms formative assessment approach to mastery of learning is set out in a specific way. The teacher plans his or her unit of instruction. After some instruction is given to students the teacher will give a formative assessment to see what the students have mastered thus far. From there the teacher can give more instruction to help students who are struggling or incorporate some enrichment activity’s to follow (Guskey, 2005). This type of assessment seems to be a good approach to teaching because it gives teachers an idea of where his or her students are. What I would like to see differently with this design is more formative assessments throughout a unit. Instead of just one or two like blooms states, I think students and teachers would benefit from multiple formative assessments throughout the units. When teachers give multiple formative assessments throughout a unit it helps the teacher see if there are any misconceptions students may have.
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My current teaching relates very much to blooms approach to formative assessments. I like using formative assessments in my classroom because it is a quick and easy way to see if my students are understanding the content being taught or if I need to go back and teach content again. I also like how formative assessments allows for myself to conference with a student about his or her formative assessment results. This allows for me to touch base with a student as well as talk them through what I am seeing. I think using formative assessments really is so important in the teaching process because it is very important to be sure we know where our students are at before we get to far along in a