Cognitive Assessment System

With the large amount of diversity in our class, working with each student in a way that best suits their needs is ideal in this type of classroom. Planning for assessments and grading the students based on ways they can grow, rather than fail is the starting point in assessing these students. Our classroom contains two teachers; one who is a special education teacher, the other is a general education teacher. The students are made up of ELL’s, three with mild disabilities, and one with a serve…

“Others visit psychologist after psychologist until they find one who is willing to diagnose their perfectly healthy child with a disability that will allow him to take the SAT and other standardized tests untimed.” (source k). Parents are cheating the system to try and gain every possible advantage to help their child succeed. But, parents can go overboard and overdo their help; one father…

He only wanted to experiment with the cars and track. Showing the materials at the beginning of the lesson and keeping them in arms reach derailed my lesson because my student decided to skip straight to the assessment portion of the lesson. In the future, I would inform my students of the materials, but not allow them physical access to them immediately. Another aspect that one of my students faced was keeping the track at a standard height. He kept on holding…

The thematic unit I created is aimed towards enhancing the learning of a first grade classroom. This first grade classroom consists of twenty-five students. The students will be focusing on the theme of winter over the next couple of months, which is why I chose to create a unit on winter animals and their hibernation process. I thought this would be a fun unit to incorporate in the classroom. The students in this classroom have been working on their writing skills as well as their reading…

LESSONS FROM THE CLASSROOM INTRODUCTION The aim of this report is to evaluate my experience during CELTA. First, I will recognize two of my strengths and weaknesses regarding my teaching skills and show concrete examples of them. Then, I will discuss what I have gained from observing other teachers and how this has influenced my own teaching. Lastly, I will identify three ELT areas of knowledge and skills which I need further development in and give reasons for my choices. STRENGTHS AND…

The education system today has the whole pedagogical process down to a science. Take a certain percentage of the student’s multiple choice score and then multiply the free response score by a seemingly random string of digits, then consider the weighted average, so and so forth. Then after crunching the numbers out comes the perfect student: One who can write the proper essay, the correct lab report, correctly perform an experiment, correctly, proper, right. But the system rarely stops to…

may affect your reputation. Achievement Assessment results should be collated which then can be used to to compare national or organisations targets are being reached. Without this…

representation of ideas (usually generated via a brainstorming session). It shows the ideas which are generated around a central theme and how they are interlinked. It is a tool primarily used for stimulating thought. He realized that the education system primarily focused on the left and brain strength, which include the use of “language, logic, numbers, sequence, looks at detail, linier, symbolic representation and judgmental characteristics. Mind Mapping is a useful technique that helps you…

Since the setting is hospital-based, as opposed to academic, non-graded, informal feedback is appropriate for providing nurses with an assessment of their individual performance. Formative evaluations throughout the CALS lecture were provided mainly through feedback stemming from case study reviews. The CALS simulation class also included an assessment rubric used to guide observations and identify learning among participating nurses. Formative evaluations, according to Gaberson and Oermann…

accommodations on assessments. I also worked with her to create informal assessments, using observations to gage where students’ learning is. Mrs. Ottlinger had 9 students on her IEP caseload, of these students, 5 were boys and 4 were girls. On Tuesdays and Thursdays, she had two periods where she engaged in one-on-one reading intervention with two male students, both students were diagnosed with an SLD. Mrs. Ottlinger was a great mentor, and was open with what interventions and assessments she…