Pedagogy and Active Board

1.1 Assessment measures the learner’s progress towards or the completion of, the learning aim and criteria, and can be used at any point during the learning cycle. It can provide information to adapt the delivery to suit the learner’s needs and abilities; a learner may need more help or time on some aspects, or has progressed quicker than planned and requires additional goals. By standardising the assessment process this creates uniformity for all learners.

To start the process, I easily collected all the items I needed from my kitchen cabinet and sent my 5-year-old daughter to collect the dullest pennies she could find from her piggy bank. Once the items were all gathered together on the kitchen table, I started the experiment with both my children’s eager help.

Lesson 1 clip 1 shows the introduction to the lesson, beginning after I welcome students to the classroom, by reviewing coins and their values as a class. After reviewing the Coins PowerPoint, the clip shows the beginning of my explanation for part 1 of the How Much Is Your Name Worth worksheet. The focus learner is wearing a purple sweatshirt in lesson 1. My instruction strayed a little from the lesson plan regarding the check for understanding section. In the lesson plan, at the end of the introduction section I listed to check for understanding before moving on. In the lesson, I did not specifically ask students if they understood the material and were ready to move on, instead I gauged student understanding based on their answers to the

Mathematics: The rubric used with the assessment checks for students’ understanding and work process through all problems presented on the quiz: do they understand the concept? Are they able to follow the process correctly? The rubric focuses on John’s thought and reasoning process.

As someone who grew up from another country, I personally find American coins infuriating. The fact that these silver colored coins have no numbers on them bother me, and I suppose a great number of tourists, very much. It remains a mystery to me how anyone can quickly differentiate between the dime, the nickel, and the quarter so easily. However, the copper-colored penny is special because it’s the tiniest one and also the easiest one to pick out among Uncle Sam’s coins. These days, this tiny coin has become a hot topic of debate on whether America should keep the penny or not.

On the teacher’s command, students will form a plan and race to find the combination of coins needed to reach the total amount

Assessment is carried out through formative (checks throughout the course), ipsative (to test against previous marks), and/ or summative (at end of course) activities to help the learner see their development whilst allowing the Assessor to give valuable feedback when appropriate. It’s purpose is to measure the learners understanding of the subject against the anticipated outcomes set by the criteria.

Assessments are the process of evaluating an individual’s learning. They involve generating and collecting evidence of a learner’s attainment of knowledge and skills and judging that evidence against defined standards. Formative Assessments (quizzes and practical tests) are used to

The students will need to figure out whether they have enough or not enough on an item.

I assess my students at regular intervals. Every time I ask a question to an individual or to a class I am assessing their knowledge and understanding.

Ever since we were in elementary school, we learned of the six coins that we all use for transactions: the penny, nickel, dime, quarter, fifty-cent and dollar coin. While we rarely ever see the fifty-cent or dollar coin, the penny is one of the most widely recognizable and minted coin in the United States, accounting for almost 55% of the coins minted every year. But the growing debate of keeping or abolishing the penny has become a real hot pot between the two sides. This essay will side with the abolishment of the penny and go into detail as to why it should be abolished.

In a world where the penny is abolished, when a person walks up to the checkout line to pay for a chocolate candy bar the smallest denomination coin in their pocket is a nickel. The price of the transaction could be one dollar and five cents without tax, but if the tax is included it would round to one dollar and ten cents. Customers would have replaced their pockets filled of pennies with pockets of nickels wondering if they could grow accustomed to life without the other coin. The penny, our lowest denomination coin, gives way to a controversial subject; while some may feel that out lowest denomination coin should be discontinued, it is clearly evident that the coin should be kept because it’s vital towards the stability of our economy,

The assessment method must take into account the characteristic of the learner and needs to be consistent and relevant to what is being assessed. The assessment will not only focus on improving the learning, it will measure their achievements and also remind the learner of how they are progressing.

Assessments are integral parts of instruction, they determine whether classroom goals have been achieved, and help teachers know what areas they should focus on and maybe reteach. They are great tools for developing lesson plans and answer questions such as; “do my students possess full understanding of the material?” There are many ways of assessing students’ learning, one of which I have personal experience with are on-the-spot assessments.

Assessment is carried out to ensure that learning has taken place. It measures the learner’s knowledge and skills in their learning area. Assessment encourages learners to ask questions on anything they have not fully understood, as learners know that they will have to prove their knowledge and understanding to the standards of the awarding body.