Standard8

The teacher understands and uses formal and informal assessment strategies to evaluate and ensure the continuous intellectual, social, and physical development of the pupil. Evidence 1: Webquest Rubric for Postcard from the Virtual Field Trip Rationale 1: This rubric was created as the evaluation portion for a Webquest on the Dominican Republic for a Spanish 3 class. Students were given the task of writing a postcard in Spanish to document their virtual field trip to the Dominican Republic. The rubric focuses on 2 of the 6 Traits of Writing—voice and content. This rubric has not been used yet. This rubric will allow for student success in areas other than the grammar of the language. This is important because not all students can write flawlessly in Spanish. The specific focus of the writing assessment—voice and ideas, gives the students direction in their writing. When writing a postcard in real life, grammar is not going to be a point of detail. Instead, telling the recipient what you did in an exciting tone is important. Students should be able to connect the purpose of the writing with the focus of the writing. I think that rubrics are essential for subjective and performance based assessments. Giving the students the expectations ahead of time allows them to produce a product that they can assess themselves before handing it in. Rubrics make grading easier because there are no unknowns.
 * Standard 8 **
 * Teachers know how to test for student progress. **

KSD 8.K.2 The teacher knows how to select, construct, and use assessment strategies and instruments appropriate to the learning outcomes being evaluated and to other diagnostic purposes. For the task of writing a postcard, the voice and content are what are important. This rubric focuses on those two writing traits. 8.S.1 The teacher appropriately uses a variety of formal and informal assessment techniques (e.g., observation, portfolios of student work, teacher-made tests, performance tasks, projects, students’ self-assessments, peer assessment, and standardized tests) to enhance her or his knowledge of learners, evaluate students’ progress and performances, and modify teaching and learning strategies. The rubric for the writing assessment aligned appropriately with the task. Different tasks require different types of assessments. What students are able to do within a given assessment allows for me to modify instruction if necessary. 8.D.1 The teacher values ongoing assessment as essential to the instructional process and recognizes that many different assessment strategies, accurately and systematically used, are necessary for monitoring and promoting student learning. Within the Spanish 3 class students have a variety of formal and informal assessments. Informal assessments occur almost daily and formal assessments occur weekly. This is necessary to monitor student learning and to hold students accountable for learning.

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