Q & A Assessment for CNMI Teachers

Arayanee Maratita

Teacher: Luna Litulumar HJHS CCLHS Teacher

 ED 450: Assessment & Evaluation

Fall 2012

Ms. Soledad Camacho

1. How do you assess your students with special needs? 

Well it all depends on the ability of the student.  If the child can read and write then his/ her assessment is modified compared to his/ her classmates. 

2. Are your teacher-created assessments reliable? How do you know?  Has it been validated? How?

I can’t say they are reliable but I can say they work well for the IEP of the child.

3. How do you know your assessments are effective?

I see that the child is responding and remembers the things being taught to him/ her.

4. As a teacher in training, what do I need to know about assessment? 

Everything that can help students achieve their goals.

5. About how much of your assessment involves paper and pencil assessment? Why is this type of assessment used instead of a more hands-on approach to assessing students? 

My assessment involves hands on and presentations.  The students learn more and they retain more of the information.

6. What are several ways you assess your students?

Paper and pencil, presentations,

7. What is the purpose of assessing students?

Check for progress and comprehension

8. What is the difference between Common Core and CNMI Standards and Benchmarks?

Common Core is more general and CNMI is specific

9. What do you do with the results of your assessments?

Collections of data and turn it in to admin and central

10. How do you link assessment to the common core being presented?

We are not using common core

11. How do you assess students who do not want to participate?

Give them options, call parents when it becomes habitual

12. What are your most effective assessments and why?

Hands on and presentations

13. How do you evaluate SPED students during Gen Ed lessons?

Based on IEP

14. Do you collaborate with teachers from the same grade level to create assessment activities?

Yes teachers that are teaching same subject and sped contact teachers.

15. Do you use the (Adequate Yearly Progress) AYP to modify your instructions?

-Yes

16. Do you assess your students based on their learning styles? How?

No

17. How do we assess without stressing out?

Use seat works and quizzes

18. Do we assess just to get a grade for the report card?

Of course not!

19. Does PSS have a certain guideline for assessing?

Yes

20. What is your biggest challenge when it comes to evaluating students?

 What do you mean?

21. Why is assessment important?

-For progress

22. How often do you assess your students? How does the frequency of classroom assessments improve student achievement?

- Weekly, but because I am teaching Carolinian Bilingual, spelling and alphabet is difficult, it helps for improvement

23. What type of assessments do you prefer and why?

- Multiple Choices, Fill in the Blanks

24. Do you provide a rubric for each activity/assignment that your students do? Why or why not?

 Of course for assistance!

25. Do you make modifications in your teaching after assessing your students? If so, what strategies do you generally use to modify your teaching?

- Depends if majority have failed, which is rare.

26. What challenges do you face when assessing students who have different learning styles?

Accommodating everyone

27. Do you assess students authentically or on the pencil and paper method?

-Both

28. Do you pick and choose which assignments to add to the grade book? Or do you put everything in the grade book? Why/Why not?

Everything, for data collection. Admin request for everything documented

29. How do students receive feedback?

Based on grade, mid progress, and  one-to-one intervention

30. What are the diagnostic assessments that your school has/use? Summative?

STAR Math, Reading

What are Smartboards?

What are Smartboards? List down a list of activities using smartboard for student to access?


Smartboard is an interactive whiteboard that was designed to do almost what you want it do in regards to classroom use. There are alot of different activities for Smartboard which includes:

• Demonstrations
• Projects
•  Interactive Learning (hands on)
• Accommodate different learning styles
• Great for constructive educators
• Meetings
• Used to bring out different 
• Digital storytelling
• Brainstorm
• Take notes directly into PowerPoint presentations
• Reinforce skills by using on-line interactive web sites
• Create a project calendar
• Teach editing skills using editing marks
• Use highlighter tool to highlight nouns, verbs, adjectives, etc.
• Use it with Kidspiration or Inspiration
• Teach students how to navigate the Internet
• Illustrate and write a book as a class. Use the record feature to narrate the text.
• Diagram activities
• Teach steps to a math problem.
• Have students share projects during Parent/Teacher/Student conferences
• Graphics and charts with ESL learners and special ed students.

Professional Portfolio

What do you think a Professional Portfolio consist of:

I think what a Professional Portfolio consist of are different varieties of documents pertaining to the person. They should have a professional picture of the person and includes a shot biography of the person (similar to a resume). It should include proof of their skills and experiences of what they've done to get to where they at. They should have documents such a release forms allowing them to reveal some information about them to the employer. It should include a collection of your activities in your profession.

Personality Test (450)

Humanmetrics Jung Typology Test™

Your Type

INFJ

Introvert(67%) iNtuitive(38%) iNtuitive Feeling(50%) Judging(11%)

• You have distinctive preference of Introversion over Extraversion (67%)
• You have moderate preference of Intuition over Sensing (38%)
• You have moderate preference of Feeling over Thinking (50%)
• You have slight preference of Judging over Perceiving (11%)
• Introverted iNtuiting Feeling Judging
  by Marina Margaret Heiss
  INFJs are distinguished by both their complexity of character and the unusual range and depth of their talents. Strongly humanitarian in outlook, INFJs tend to be idealists, and because of their J preference for closure and completion, they are generally "doers" as well as dreamers. This rare combination of vision and practicality often results in INFJs taking a disproportionate amount of responsibility in the various causes to which so many of them seem to be drawn.
  INFJs are deeply concerned about their relations with individuals as well as the state of humanity at large. They are, in fact, sometimes mistaken for extroverts because they appear so outgoing and are so genuinely interested in people -- a product of the Feeling function they most readily show to the world. On the contrary, INFJs are true introverts, who can only be emotionally intimate and fulfilled with a chosen few from among their long-term friends, family, or obvious "soul mates." While instinctively courting the personal and organizational demands continually made upon them by others, at intervals INFJs will suddenly withdraw into themselves, sometimes shutting out even their intimates. This apparent paradox is a necessary escape valve for them, providing both time to rebuild their depleted resources and a filter to prevent the emotional overload to which they are so susceptible as inherent "givers." As a pattern of behavior, it is perhaps the most confusing aspect of the enigmatic INFJ character to outsiders, and hence the most often misunderstood -- particularly by those who have little experience with this rare type.
  Due in part to the unique perspective produced by this alternation between detachment and involvement in the lives of the people around them, INFJs may well have the clearest insights of all the types into the motivations of others, for good and for evil. The most important contributing factor to this uncanny gift, however, are the empathic abilities often found in Fs, which seem to be especially heightened in the INFJ type (possibly by the dominance of the introverted N function).
  This empathy can serve as a classic example of the two-edged nature of certain INFJ talents, as it can be strong enough to cause discomfort or pain in negative or stressful situations. More explicit inner conflicts are also not uncommon in INFJs; it is possible to speculate that the causes for some of these may lie in the specific combinations of preferences which define this complex type. For instance, there can sometimes be a "tug-of-war" between NF vision and idealism and the J practicality that urges compromise for the sake of achieving the highest priority goals. And the I and J combination, while perhaps enhancing self-awareness, may make it difficult for INFJs to articulate their deepest and most convoluted feelings.
  Usually self-expression comes more easily to INFJs on paper, as they tend to have strong writing skills. Since in addition they often possess a strong personal charisma, INFJs are generally well-suited to the "inspirational" professions such as teaching (especially in higher education) and religious leadership. Psychology and counseling are other obvious choices, but overall, INFJs can be exceptionally difficult to pigeonhole by their career paths. Perhaps the best example of this occurs in the technical fields. Many INFJs perceive themselves at a disadvantage when dealing with the mystique and formality of "hard logic", and in academic terms this may cause a tendency to gravitate towards the liberal arts rather than the sciences. However, the significant minority of INFJs who do pursue studies and careers in the latter areas tend to be as successful as their T counterparts, as it is *iNtuition* -- the dominant function for the INFJ type -- which governs the ability to understand abstract theory and implement it creatively.
  In their own way, INFJs are just as much "systems builders" as are INTJs; the difference lies in that most INFJ "systems" are founded on human beings and human values, rather than information and technology. Their systems may for these reasons be conceptually "blurrier" than analogous NT ones, harder to measure in strict numerical terms, and easier to take for granted -- yet it is these same underlying reasons which make the resulting contributions to society so vital and profound

Is it RIGHT or is it WRONG?!

Oh my goodness, as much as I want to deny the reading into my type, it is RIGHT. I am majority of what it describes me. Because I can be a "dreamer" I make it happen, so it is accurate that I am also a doer. As it states that I am also mistaken as an extrovert because I can be outgoing and socializing with different people, there are a few people in my life that confide and trust in my life.

I am a friendly person, but believe that if I was done wrong, I would think of ways to get even, but I don't do it because I would feel guilty. These type describes that I would shut down people whenever I feel like it, and it states the obvious because I do it when I feel like it or when I need it. I love to write and express my feelings when I am unable to express it physically and verbally.  There is so much that it has mention that describes my personality and behavior for the things I do.