Week 2 Assignment-Using Assessment to Guide Instruction

       In this video, Dr. Paratore discusses the importance of literacy and the importance of various assessments to evaluate student’s progress when it comes to literacy and reading. She discusses the importance of students not only being able to read the text that is in front of them, but to also comprehend what they are reading, and acquire different language and knowledge of the text. We as teachers must learn how to assess students from different perspectives, in order to make sure that our student is an effective and strong reader.  We as teachers must use “multiple measures” when assessing our students in literacy. We can test the student in how they read something they are forced to read in a classroom or how they read when they read texts willfully. We can even evaluate students on how they read in groups or how they read on their own. There are many assessments that we can use when testing a student in literacy, it is our job to utilize them to the best of our ability in and out of the classroom. Inside of the classroom that I am observing, I noticed the teacher utilizes multiple measures when evaluating her students in literacy. She evaluates the students in groups, she evaluates them individually, and she evaluates them weekly when providing different assessments to students to see if they are on the reading level they need to be or if they need some extra-assistance in helping them read on the level they need to read on. One type of evidence the teacher I am currently observing and a type of evidence that was mentioned in the video are, running records. Other types of evidences that were mentioned in the video, that I found to be very informative was consulting with other teachers in other departments such as art, music, or computer. Another form of evidence is previous and cumulative records of the students reading assessments. I found this video interesting because, I was able to view different ideas and perspectives on how to assess students in literacy from a diverse group of teachers. I was able to compare these ideas and evaluations to other evaluations that I have witnessed in the past when observing different classrooms. This video also showed me how each teacher has their own significant way on how they assess their students and what they find to fit best in their own classroom.