Assignment:
Targeted Essential Learning
Effective literacy teaching focuses on research-based strategies and utilizes student assessment data in order to plan instruction that improves student achievement.
Assessment Tool Selected
1) Data-based lesson plans
2) Intervention activities
Specific Performance/Task(s)
- Generate a variety of formal and informal assessment tools that align with instruction in order to measure student learning.
- Select and utilize best practice implementation strategies appropriate to different developmental levels.
- Collect, maintain, and use records of student work and performance/achievement to monitor student progress.
- Analyze assessment outcomes to inform instructional methodologies.
- Collaborate in the design, implementation, and support of learning programs that develop students' academic abilities.
Relevancy of Task to Teacher Candidate
By engaging in the instruction and assessment cycle, teachers are able to create more effective literacy instruction that is tailored to student reading development levels.