Week 12 Reflect

 

Week 12

 

Derika Joseph:

After teaching students all these wonderful skills about writing, it is also important to remember the importance of ASSESSING THEIR WRITING too. Students appreciate the feedback. By assessing them, we as teachers are providing them with feedback, regardless if we assess them formative or summative. By assessing student's writing, we are keeping track of their writing progress. Additionally, this can be done by using many different assessment tools which may include: keeping writing journals, using portfolios, having students write for pleasure, or even using rubrics. Thus, by assessing student's writing, we as teachers can then use the results of the assessment to diagnose writing difficulties-as well as, to then use the results of the diagnosis to plan for Writing Instructions, in order to assist students with the identified difficulties.

 

Shaquan Williams:

How can you be sure that your students have grasped what was thought? Teachers use assessment as a means of evaluating not only the students' work but their knowledge of elements of writing that we have taught them. Assessment is an important part of the teaching process as it shows the student's growth as they transition through lessons.

Assessing student's writing should be done both formatively and summative. Formative assessment is used to monitor the student's progress so that a teacher can provide feedback and improve the student's learning. This can be done through:

• Peer conferencing

• Journal entries

This form of assessment doesn’t usually contain a mark. The formative assessment identifies the strengths and weaknesses of students. Whereas, the summative assessment focuses on what students have learned throughout the entire course. This is usually done through the end of year exams.

Nevertheless, both forms of an assessment provide students with feedback while also helping the teacher to see weak areas and addressing them.

 

Makiba Ward:

Writing assessment refers not only to evaluating a student's final paper and assigning it a grade but also to measure a student's knowledge of the elements of writing both formative and summative. It’s important that a teacher is able to assess students writing in multiple ways and from different aspects such as using: writing journals, portfolios, rubrics , etc. Assessing students writing is very important because it is a crucial part of the instructional process and of a student's growth as an upcoming writer. Moreover, using the writing assessment teacher will be able to diagnose writing difficulties according to Ideas, Organization, Voice, Sentence Fluency, Word Choice, Conventions, and Presentation (handwriting). However, Based on the writing difficulties identified and diagnosed, a teacher will plan instruction Whole class, Groupings, and Individual.

In conclusion, students can also be able to assess themselves by writing reflections and being able to critique their own writing and the strategies they use throughout the writing process.