4/16 blog

4/16 Blog 

In my classroom, I have seen the use of classroom-based reading instruction and high-stakes testing. In order to determine the student’s reading level, they have a system of doing three tests throughout the year in order to group the children into reading levels- some sort of high-stakes testing. In the classroom, the children have literacy groups where they are also separated by these levels. During their literacy centers, my mentor teacher have a read with teacher center where she reads through leveled books that she chooses based on the children’s groups. 

I do a portfolio for my preschool children and I find it very helpful. Even though there are only 12 children in my preschool class, all the assessment or activities that could involve assessments get mixed together if I don’t write their responses down. By then organizing my portfolios by domain I can quickly go back, figure out how they did on the last few assessments in an area, then use this to provide them developmentally appropriate activities.