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**8 Teachers know how to test for student progress.**
 * The teacher understands and uses formal and informal assessment strategies to evaluate and ensure the continuous intellectual, social, and physical development of the pupil.**

Evidence 1: Hispanic Heritage Project with rubric

Rationale 1: Assessment takes place in a variety of ways. I assess students daily. Often times, the assessment is a short check quiz, a participation grade or checking an assignment. This project was a rather large one. It required students to document several aspects of the Spanish culture to create an awareness of Hispanic Heritage Month. The project was ongoing for a month. The rubric was a good way to assess this project because the assignment had many components and my expectations were clearly communicated in the rubric at the very beginning of the project. I used this rubric and project with all of my classes this fall. I think that I will use it with just my beginning level students in the future as the websites were primarily in English. I do not feel that it challenged my upper level students enough. It was, however, great for my beginning level students.

KSD

8.K.2 The teacher knows how to select, construct, and use assessment strategies and instruments appropriate to the learning outcomes being evaluated and to other diagnostic purposes.

I use a variety of assessment tools including rubrics such as this one, objective tests, self-assessment and oral proficiency testing. It is important to use the assessment that is best suited for the objective being evaluated. Knowing how to create and utilize a variety of assessments is key to building student confidence as well as giving accurate feedback.

8.S.5 The teacher monitors his or her own teaching strategies and behaviors in relation to student success, modifying plans and instructional approaches accordingly.

Self evaluation is equally important for the instructors as it is for the students. Much of my self evaluation is informal but I am constantly making changes to lesson plans, due dates and assignments. In this particular unit, I found that my expectations were too great for the amount of time that I had scheduled in the computer lab and I had to make accommodations to the assignment as well as the deadline.

8.D.2 The teacher is committed to using assessment to identify student strengths and promote student growth rather than to deny students access to learning opportunities.

Rubrics do just that. By clearly communicating your expectations, students can easier meet the goals. Students were given the rubric at the very beginning of the unit and knew the expectations right away.