KSA #9: Teachers gather and use information about students’ learning needs and progress.
- □ Determine and respond to students’ learning needs on an ongoing basis based on students’ actions and evidence of their performance.
- Ex. Differentiated instruction.
- □ Observe and record students’ activities, analyzing students’ learning difficulties and strengths, and interpreting the results of assessments and information provided by students, their parents, colleagues and other professionals, to diagnose appropriate methods of instruction
- □ Record, interpret and use the results of their assessments to modify their teaching practices and students’ learning activities
- □ Select and develop a variety of classroom assessment strategies and instruments to assess the full range of learning objectives
- □ Explain to students, parents and other educators your interpretation and understanding of the results of diagnoses and assessments, and the implications for students
- □ Differentiate between classroom and large-scale instruments such as provincial achievement tests and common district assessments; administer both and use the results for the ultimate benefit of student.
- □ Provide many opportunities for students to diagnose their own learning needs and to assess their progress toward learning goals
- □ Use the interpretations of diagnoses and assessments as well as students’ work and results to guide their own professional growth
- □ Explain to school councils and members of the community the purposes, meanings, outcomes and implications of assessments