Tag: Assessments
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Horace Mann, to today
The following post is really a collection of works, four in total, that represent a historical inquiry of the impact of Horace Mann, followed by an observation of three video segments. They are presented below, beginning with the historical reflection, which could stand alone, but was built in tandem with these other pages, so I…
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Reading Assessment
(This article was written in response to a video that is not publicly available. It stands, alone, as a reflection on differentiation.) Considering the two students, Sofia and Matteo, I’m given to noticing the differences and similarities between them, for how they relate. Sofia is a speaker of English as her native language and…
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Response to Intervention and Vocabulary
The Response to Intervention (RTI) process is one that has many facets. In 2015 (after the creation of this course) RTI was integrated through the federal enactment of the Every Student Succeeds Act into what is now known as Multi-Tiered System of Supports (MTSS) with the addition of social/emotional concerns. Certainly, there is plenty of…
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Tenth Grade Lesson Plan: Betty Friedan’s “A Woman’s Civil Right” ~ Rhetorical Literary Devices
Given the speech by Betty Friedan she gave to celebrate the success of Row v. Wade, in which she spoke of the position of women and men in America and how America needed to look forward, students will do research that shows a competency that is demonstrable through a metric of finding at least four…
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Assessing Grammar
Teaching Conventions and Mechanics Assessing Grammar Assessments for grammar used in a classroom of English Language Arts (ELA) at the secondary level should, in my opinion, be mostly formative (FA), with fewer summative assessments (SA) so that students can be conceptually fed more than they are taxed with producing and so they are given as…