3-S Process Chapter 8 - Assignments Matter

What statements can you make about the reading? What did you learn that others need to know? Assignments are turned in and reviewed. Record the score in the grade book and move to the next task. WRONG!! Utilize the data to determine the effectiveness of your instruction. Utilize the data to determine if the assignment is worth repeating. The data should inform your practice of teaching and you should learn about students strengths and weaknesses. Learn from the data and make positive adjustments to instruction assignments and tasks. Reteaching a solution, not a repetition! When reteaching, it is chance to make instruction more impactful and productive. To do this, a teacher cannot teach the lesson the same way as the first time around. Before you reteach, you need to evaluate what didnt work the first time around and change how it is presented to the students. Make it fresh and different the goal is learning!

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What strategies will you try? How will you apply your learning? My geometry teacher came to mind when I read this chapter. He wasnt a reflective teacher and he wasnt a teacher who differentiated his instruction. If he had analyzed assignments and looked at the data as a reflection of his teaching and then changed his approach by reteaching in a new way, I would have learned more and struggled less. The goal in teaching is student learning. If we arent willing to be reflective teachers and utilize the data we have to be better teachers, we shouldnt be teaching. Our students deserve the very best we can give them. This includes looking at what we do and finding ways to make it better. I will make sure I take a two-fold approach to reviewing and grading assignments. First, I will look at the student results and find out what they need moving forward. Second, I will look at the assignment in terms of how I did as a teacher. By looking at the assignments from both ends I will get a full view of the effectiveness of my teaching and I will know where to make changes and what steps to take next.

What is the source? Where did you get the information?

Doughtery, Eleanor. Assignments Matter: Matking the Connections That Help Students Meet Standards. Alexandris, VA: ASCD 2012. Chapter 8: Assignments as Data