News Article #2:

My Top 3 Formatives

There are many assessment practices that I use that have yielded tremendous benefits for students. I use formative assessments for quick, continual assessing of student learning. The purpose of formative assessments is to capture data to inform my instruction. It lets me know which students are struggling…Read More

News Article:

“When am I ever going to use this?”

The biggest question I hear more than I enjoy is, “When am I ever going to use this?” No teacher likes to hear this, especially when they’ve worked so hard to create notes, practice, and activities for that topic, and especially when the subject is the teacher’s passion. It’s almost insult…Read More

Our district uses MAP (Measures of Academic Progress). The MAP assessment allows an insight to our students growth compared to other students in the nation. Each child’s performance is compared to the National average of other students in the same grade level. Student profiles make the data easy to understand. The student progress reports o…Read More

After viewing the Kentucky Uniform Academic Course Codes web page I feel our school’s biggest concern is a lot like the rest I’ve read on here. With all the cuts in funding facing education, onebof our schools biggest concerns is ensuring that all students have access to a rich curriculum as well as opportunities to provide intervention and enr…Read More