Assessment

• include a minimum of 5 'tips' for good goal writing • include a minimum of 2 things to avoid for good goal writing • essentially write at least 5 'do's' and 2 'don'ts' regarding writing IEP goals. Be clear, be accurate, be confident. Think about what needs to be included in a good goal for it to be a legal and ethical IEP, think about what 'tests' you can apply to make sure the goal is valid, think about what needs to be included for the goal to be meaningful. This can be presented in…

changes in performance standards, if any, do you plan to employ to facilitate the participation of students identified with special education needs? N/A Assessment (Formal or Informal) (1f: Assessing Student Learning) How will you and the students assess where the learning objectives, listed above, were met? Each formal or informal assessment should describe how it is aligned to the above objective(s). • The teacher will formatively assess the students based on her questioning during the…

Pam: What is Differentiated Learning? The Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD) states that differentiated learning refers to the educational goal of maximizing individual student achievement by recognizing that everyone has unique ways of responding to learning and classroom instruction. http://www.ascd.org/research-a-topic/differentiated-instruction-resources.aspx Differentiated Instruction Hundreds of years ago, educators mistakenly assumed that all same-aged…

Teaching and learning process embodies theoretical and practical requirements for teachers in the class. Based on a study by Cakir (2010), how can I achieve a higher level of awareness of how I teach and of the kinds of decisions I make as I teach? One way of doing these are through observing, reflecting on my own class, and giving some suggestions for my language teaching development as a way of bringing about changes, which will be discussed this reflective teaching essay. My experience in…

teacher will also remind the students that no matter where they live, each and every student has an impact on their environment. The teacher will remind the students that we all have a responsibility and a duty to the Earth to take care of it. Pre-Assessment: Teacher will ask: “Where do you see leaves?” “Do all trees have the same kind of…

Context The sequence of three lessons shown in this document is developed for year 7 Mathematics classes of a state school located in the outer suburb of Brisbane. These lessons are made of engaging teaching episodes and a formative assessment, to teach operations on fractions. A part of the material used is drawn from chapter 4 of the textbook (Greenwood et al., 2016). Remaining resources are hands-on activities, to make lessons engaging, sourced out from Internet. The school, considered for…

It’s hard to tell where to start when it comes to my experience with SEI. As I reflect on this class and my own career there has been real dichotomy of sorts. In the first half of my career I spent in a very culturally diverse community of Stoughton which had a very high ELL population with little no built in supports for teachers. In the second half of my career in East Bridgewater, there is a very low level of ELL’s with much more support. The biggest take away that I have from this course…

Reflection Summary: Lesson Plan & Instruction: How did your instruction meet the expectations of the Instructional Standards of the NEPF? An expectation within our lessons at my school is to identify the NEPF Instructional standards in our lessons plans and how we anticipate meeting these standards through our instruction. This is my second year writing lessons plans that includes identifying the NEPF Instructional standards. Prior to this course, I found it a bit awkward placing these…

options that RTI 1 gives for identifying students with learning disabilities is the IQ Achievement Discrepancy Model and the Response to Intervention Approach. The IQ Achievement Discrepancy Model is a traditional model that compares a student’s IQ assessment scores to an average score according to a Bell curve distribution. If a student falls 2 standard deviations from the average, the student would be identified for having a learning disability. The Response to Intervention Approach is a form…

is a seven-step process that teachers use when developing triangulated annual goals that link the student’s postsecondary goals to state content and industry standards. The first step in this process is to conduct and review transition related assessments. This will allow the IEP team and teachers to know the students goals. Then the…