Reflection On Mrs. Herd

During my observation in Mrs. Herd’s first grade class I directed two assessments to four students. The assessments were the Yopp-Singer Test of Phoneme Segmentation and Rosner Test of Auditory Analysis. Before administering the assessments to the four students I made a point to set myself up for it. A few ways I set myself up was reading more about the assessments, watching some videos on how to conduct the tests, and furthermore doing a practical assessment to my friend’s child. I wanted to assure myself that I was well prepared to examine the students because I didn’t want to make any errors while examining the students and have them repeat the examination again. I could envision how the students may have felt while a stranger testing them so I wanted to make it pleasant and comfortable for them. I administered the assessment in Mrs. Herd’s class while she was doing her lesson. Mrs. Herd’s class, for the most part comprises of ESOL levels 3 and 4 so she isolated two students from every level. She wanted me to able to compare how each student did in their ESOL level. Mrs. Herd separated the four students into a group and one by one I called them to sit at a separate desk with me. Immediately, I saw the students were strained and befuddled to what was going on. I explained …show more content…
I took after the same methods I did on the Rosner evaluation. I explained the instructions to the students and performed a couple examples with them. I explained to them I was going to commence by saying a word and then they were going to break the word apart and tell me each sound in the word in order. Both students reacted especially well to the Yopp evaluation. I believe I was well prepared to assess the four students. I made sure to read more about the assessments, I viewed some videos on how to conduct the exam and as well performed a practice assessment to my friend’s