WEEK 2: Video Response

The video shared a lot of great point in terms of assessment that are crucial to out understanding as future teachers. The instructor gave a number of ways we can test students of their knowledge in different areas of literacy. She started of with saying there are a number of trends people follow in schools, districts, etc, but they don't help with individual themselves. I really liked how she brought this up because when we are interacting with the students one-on-one, these aspects of the school's or district's background are unreliable. She said there are different areas we can use, such as, word knowledge, fluency, comprehension, motivation and interest, general, writing and language. These various area all eventually tie in together but it helps us to compare in different contexts. We are to continually assess our students, whether it may be daily, weekly, bi-weekly, monthy, etc. Different methods such as running records, conferences, presentations, expository or story-based essays all count as assessments. Assessment happens while the teacher is teaching because it is embedded in the instruction.