My district is initiating "Response to Intervention" using the Aims Web program for assessments. If others are using this prevention tiering system please comment. Thanks. Joyce
-------------- Original message -------------- From: thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Here's what I don't quite understand. Why do I need an assessment approach > separate from my teaching? As a teacher I need to be reading with, > interacting with every student often! I don't need a "separate" assessment. > It might be valuable to every once in awhile double check with some outside > benchmarks if you will (say several times a year to "calibrate" my judgment > with that of others) but mostly I need to be able to read with every student > individually REGULARLY and I need to be conferencing with and negotiating > writing goals and progress with every student regularly. I need to have > internalized how to listen to and see student work knowledgeably. So WHY > the big concern with assessments that are separate from my being able to > reflect on what students are doing with the actual real work of my classroom > as we are DOING IT? > > Honestly, why aren't we trusting our own internalized understandings of how > to see studentlearning and progress through the actual work of the > classroom. I'm not trying to be difficult. I just don't get why this would > not be our ultimate goal. > > Sally > > > On 6/27/07 5:42 PM, "RASINSKI, TIMOTHY" wrote: > > > Nancy Padak and myself developed an assessment system we call Three-Minute > > Reading Assessments, Grades 1-4, and 5-8 (Scholastic). It is quick > > assessment that is a cross between running records, informal reading > > inventories, and DIBELS. From a few minutes of reading teachers can get a > > sense for their students' word recognition, automaticity in word decoding, > > expression/prosody, and comprehension. We purposefully made it a quick > > assessment because we know that time is precious in classrooms and that > > time > > given to assessment is time taken away from instruction. > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Mosaic mailing list > [email protected] > To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to > http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org. > > Search the MOSAIC archives at http://snipurl.com/MosaicArchive. > _______________________________________________ Mosaic mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org. Search the MOSAIC archives at http://snipurl.com/MosaicArchive.
