INTASC

Interstate New Teacher Assessment and Support Consortium

Portfolio Evaluation

____The teacher intern understands and uses formal and informal assessment strategies, consistent with instructional goals, to evaluate and ensure the continuous intellectual, social, and physical development of the learner.

• Assessment:
  I utilized tests, quizzes, video worksheets, guiding discussion questions, written responses, open notebook quizzes, homework, and research projects to assess and monitor student growth. There were additional methods of assessment that I learned from my experience from courses I'd taken throughout this program. Moreover, the actual experience furthered my own beliefs on the different ways of assessing student knowledge other than tests and quizzes from the aforementioned examples including class discussion and research project assignments that given students the opportunity of providing their own opinions based on prior knowledge and their own take on the world around them.

• Incorporate strategies to prepare students for SOL and standardized testing:
  One of my concerns was how in the world am I going to get these students prepared for SOL and standardized testing. Following and adhereing the strictly to the standards guidelines served as a practical way of ensuring students were going to be ready for the tests. I also used a review of World War I through the use of a Jeopardy game via Power Point as a tool and also reviewing notebooks.