1. Assessment
Page During First Teaching Block
As I am going into my first teaching block I am looking for resources
that can help me along the way. For
assessment I will be using my digital portfolio on assessment to help guide
me. The first thing that I would use to
help guide me would be the AER Strategy Form.
This form will be a constant reference for how I will use assessment to
tackle a variety of challenges such as ELL learners, special needs learners, or
report cards. I have included two
resources for every section from the Ministry document Growing Success to help guide me in future uses of assessment.
I would also like to use my assessment page from my digital portfolio to
continue to blog about my continuing experiences and challenges with
assessment. I believe I have already
started off quite well with my first two posts on my past experiences with
assessment and my recent experiences with assessment. I would like to continue this blog by
detailing how I am dealing with assessment during my first teaching block and
how I am adjusting to assess my placement class. I believe that this will help with my
self-reflection as a teacher and allow me to refine my assessment
strategies.
3. Professional Learning Goal for Job
Interview
If I were to highlight one of my professional learning goals from my AER
Strategy Form I would want to highlight my goal to better facilitate support
learning for students who are form an Aboriginal, Metis, or Inuit background. In my AER Strategy Form I have highlighted
the need to research the need to study the social and economic conditions these
students come from as well as talking to experts and advisors from these
communities. This will be done to help better
understand the context that these students learn in and what challenges they
might have to learning. I have
highlighted two Ministry of Education documents to help me develop this
learning goal. These resources can be
found here and here. Both of these
documents help inform teachers about the learning styles these students might
have based on the communities they are from while also providing practical
strategies and tools for the successful instruction of Aboriginal, Metis, and
Inuit students. I believe that teachers
in Ontario are under-equipped and to help with the effective education of these
students. I therefore believe that
highlighting my knowledge and willingness to learn and develop this knowledge would
be a desirable asset during a job interview.