Virtual lessons

InTASC Standard 6: Assessment

The teacher understands and uses multiple methods of assessment to engage learners in their own growth, to monitor learner progress, and to guide the teacher's and learner's decision-making (InTASC, 2013).

Brief Description of Evidence

In the Spring semester of 2020 in my Introduction to Scientific Inquiry class, EDUC 224, we had to create a week of virtual science lessons. My topic was 5th-grade engineering so I created 5 lessons about different aspects and applications of engineering. The class had to fill out a lesson plan that included information about each lesson in multiple sections. First, we filled out the basic information, such as standards, objectives, goals, and topics. Second, the class needed to list the prerequisite skills and learner profiles. Third and fourth were our resources and learner and teacher opportunities for learning. Finally, we filled out specific information regarding our 5 lessons, such as vocabulary, materials, procedures, transitions, and assessments.

Analysis of What I Learned

Throughout this project, I had to stretch and challenge myself to try and create quality and meaningful lessons that my 5th graders can learn from and understand. I also had to get creative with how I would teach and assess my students’ understanding of the lesson. I had to assess what materials most of my students may have at home that are readily available to them, and I had to think of possible challenges both electronically and behaviorally that may arise for the students and how to address them. For example, if a student was unsure of how to create a copy of a document that they could not edit directly they could just print them out or write the questions and answers on a piece of paper and submit a picture of that. With the Assessment process, I had to get creative with how I would test the students' learning. I needed to find a way to make the assessments fun, involved with the lesson, and appropriate for the grade level. Using these assessments will allow me to gauge what part of Bloom's taxonomy my students are at and how I can improve their learning. First I need to ensure my students are being given the proper knowledge through these lessons, then I need to assess their understanding of the lesson. Lastly, I use experiments to give my students a chance to apply their learning to real-life situations and be able to analyze their results to develop an even deeper understanding of the lesson (Mcdaniel, 2021).

How This Artifact Shows My Competence in InTASC Standard 6

This artifact demonstrates my competence on standard 6 because I had to understand and be able to use multiple disciplines of teaching and assessment to engage my students in their learning, such as quizzes, fill in the blanks, experiments, result recording, and short answer question. I used these assessments to monitor each student's progress throughout each lesson and to guide my decisions when teaching or changing the lessons. These assessments would tell me what sections of the lesson were engaging and challenging enough for my students, what sections they learned from best, and where I needed to change my strategies for the next one.