EDU431 METHODS OF TEACHING MATHEMATICS

AND SCIENCE IN THE PRIMARY/JUNIOR

GRADES

Required reading E: Analysis and Reflection.

Title: Assessment for Learning
CITATION: Kevin Goode, Teresa Kingston, Janet Miller Grant, and Larellie Munson, (2010).
Assessment for Learning.
ABSTRACT:
This curriculum insert focuses on assessment
strategies that all classroom teachers will
find useful. It is adapted from Learning
Together: Successful Teaching in Combined
Grades, EFTOs New Resource for Teachers of
Combined Grades.

ANALYSIS/REFLECTION:
This document did not touch upon
assessment strategies for combined grade
classrooms which I found disappointing as
more and more combined grade classes are
being made. In both placements so far I have
been in combined grades and have seen
more combined grade rooms than single
grade rooms so I feel it would have been
beneficial if this article touched on the
aspects of combined grades. However, the
assessment strategies which were discussed
basically defined a constructivist pedagogy
of assessment. It is important for students to
be able to know, understand, and sometimes
create the way they will be assessed. When
students are involved in the process they
feel more inclined to do better because it is
worse to let yourself down by not achieving
your own goals than to not achieve goals that
are just given to you. When students are
involved they take control of their own
learning and allows more room for
independence and growth. Students have
many chances to self reflect and will learn at
a younger age what type of learner they are
and how they can learn best through this self
reflection.