Chapter 3 Post

Focus Question: How can teachers evaluate and assess their students?
Assessing students takes not just one class but the whole year. For the "norm" of how to assess the students is by using multiple-choice and short answer tests, essays and other written tasks. (Maloy Robert, Verock-o'Loughlin Ruth, Edwards Sharon, Woolf Beverly.Transforming Learning with New Technologies.20011 Pearson Education,Inc., publishing as Allyn and Bacon.) But their are some tools that help assess and evaluate such as : Electronic tests and quizzes, Digital Portfolios and Online Surveys and ect. ((Maloy Robert, Verock-o'Loughlin Ruth, Edwards Sharon, Woolf Beverly.Transforming Learning with New Technologies.20011 Pearson Education,Inc., publishing as Allyn and Bacon.) Using these tools is not only going to change how we can help students but a different way to read them. The normal way of grading them on a scale are FCAT and ect they are so use to this their is no where for creativity.
Tech Tool: PBS Teachers was a lot more helpful then I would have thought. Since I want to go into middle school Language arts they actually had a section for me and I could explore lesson plans, videos and more creative ideas for teaching. This one lesson plan was I thought very unique it gets the students thinking and moving To get up and Move
Chapter Summary : This chapter seemed to me a start of explaining how lesson plans come together and how teachers assess and evaluating, It does talk about the different types of assessment and how you don't have to use just the normal and what is given to you. It brings in using technology in Performance Assessment and the Student Performance Rubrics. One thing I loved about this chapter is that it does offer a good amount of help and tips in order to bring your class some creativity with using technology and creating rubrics.