Assignment:
Benchmark - Best Practices Presentation
Your principal has noticed how well you communicate learning objectives, guide students to set individual goals, and guide students to self-assess and track their progress. Because of your successes using these best practices, he has asked you to present these methods in an upcoming professional development.
Part 1: Best Practices Presentation
For this benchmark assignment, create a 10 to 12 slide digital presentation of evidence-based best practices related to progress monitoring, communicating learning objectives, self-assessment, and providing effective feedback.
The presentation should include the following components:
1. How you communicate learning objectives to your class and measure student performance of the identified learning objectives.
2. How you work collaboratively with students to establish learning goals and track individual progress.
3. How you assist students in analyzing their work, assessment results, and keeping track of their own progress.
4. How you provide effective, descriptive feedback to your students.
Include a title slide, reference slide, and presenter's notes.
Support your findings with a minimum of three scholarly resources.
Part 2: Summary
In 500 to 750 words summarize and examine the process of implementing your best practices in communicating objectives, progress monitoring, and providing effective feedback.
Answer the following in your summary:
1. What is the value of analyzing performance data? Discuss the influence instructional planning has on gaps and patterns.
2. How can the best practices included in your presentation inform instructional planning? How are learning gaps and patterns addressed?
3. How does the classroom climate influence students' confidence in learning independently and taking ownership of their academic progress?
4. How does inquiry and the development of higher-order skills promote student engagement and motivation to learn?
Support your findings with a minimum of three scholarly resources.
Submit your presentation and reflection as one deliverable.
Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center. An abstract is not required.
You are required to submit this assignment to LopesWrite.
Program competencies and national standards assessed in the benchmark assignment
Use their knowledge and understanding of individual and group motivation and behavior among students at the 1-8 level to create opportunities for students' active engagement in learning, self-motivation, and positive social interaction.
Candidates examine performance data to guide and engage students in their own thinking and learning, and to inform instructional planning based on identified learning gaps and patterns.
Candidates continuously monitor student progress to provide effective descriptive feedback, and collaboratively establish learning goals, assisting students in identifying quality work and analyzing their own assessment results.
Clinical Field Experience C: Self-Assessment
Allocate at least 3 hours in the field to support this field experience.
Part 1: Assessment Conversation
Choose one student with whom you have been working with in your field experiences and assess the goals for that student. After identifying and sharing the goals with the student, discuss the different ways he or she can assess their own learning.
Consider the following questions when working with the student:
1. What does assessment mean?
2. Why is assessing your own learning important?
3. What is most difficult about assessing your own learning and what is the easiest?
Summarize their answers in 50 to 100 words.
Part 2: Reflection
In 250 to 500 words, summarize and reflect on the process of developing guidelines to track data and guide students to meet goals. Consider the following questions in your reflection:
1. How does this process help to foster student independence?
2. What gaps did you notice in the process of these field experiences?
3. How would you adapt this process to meet the needs of students in your future professional practice?
4. Support your findings with a minimum of three scholarly resources.
Submit the notes from the assessment discussion with the student and your reflection as one deliverable.
Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center. An abstract is not required.
Attachment:- Self-Assessments.rar