Week 1

 Overview

This week in class, I have learned about the different types of assessment, how to show a students metacognition. and how powerful documentation can be. The documentation article is one that I found very interesting. When I worked in a daycare, we had an app that we used to keep track of what the kids did that day. It could have been that day's craft, how many times they used the bathroom, how much of their lunch they ate, and many other things. This allowed the parents to check in on their kids throughout the day and see how they were doing. 

Terms and Definitions

-Metacognition: how a child thinks about their own thinking

-Rubric: a way of scoring that assess certain areas for an assignment or project

-Checklist: an assessment tool that has set specific criteria, used to track development

-Rating scale: set categories designed to meet a certain expectation

Future

In my classroom, I would like to be able to incorporate all the different types of assessments. I would like the students to do a self-check and evaluate their work themselves. They would turn it into me, and I would grade the assignment. I would like to see if they take their time to catch their mistakes, or if they rush to get done. 

-Checklists: If I was doing a small project with my kids, I would allow them to have a little bit of creative control. I would write the checklist with them, and incorporate some of their ideas.

-Rating Scales: For a rating scale that is interactive for the kids would be a clip up clip down chart. This is an easy, non-point based system so the kids can check where they fall during the day.

-Rubrics: As a student, rubrics have been very helpful when completing assignment, and it allows the kids to see what they are being graded on. It would also give more in depth expectations for each point value.