Category Archives: assessment
What I’ve Learned About Being A Kick-Butt Reading Teacher–Part 4
Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Assessment Inside my district I was an early adopter of Pearson’s Developmental Reading Assessment system. When the district decided to implement DRA for all elementary classrooms, the cheese was MOVED … Continue reading
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Formative Pain in the Assessment
This month marks a special anniversary for me. It’s been 4 years since I started using the Developmental Reading Assessment (from Pearson) in my classroom. Back then I was bright-eyed and full of undirected/misdirected teaching energy. I accidentally signed … Continue reading
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Becoming one-teacher-at-a-time-ish…
Happy FIFTH Snow Day to me… I finished One Teacher at a Time last week (first post here), while at the same time dipping my toe into the criterion-based assessment waters in both Math ( a unit on fractions) … Continue reading
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Shifty Paradigms
Last Wednesday I spent a few hours at my ISD with other 3-5 teachers listening to Jane E. Pollack, author of, most recently, One Teacher at a Time. I thought I was just going to hear a little about … Continue reading
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Assessment That Doesn’t Suck
I’m happily plopped on a friend’s couch in Seattle, trying to enjoy the last few days of winter break, but needing to look ahead to the next six months at the same time. I hate multitasking. I pulled out my … Continue reading
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