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Professional Competency 5
Professional competency 5 revolves around the successful evaluation of learning. As teachers, we need to be able to evaluate students on the subjects and specific elements they should know and understand according to the governments’ educational curriculum requirements. It is also very important to collect sufficient valid information regarding student abilities in order to confidently state how it is that each student is doing in the respect subject and competency areas.
My development
I believe that I have reached a “thorough” level of mastery in this professional competency as I have learned much throughout my field experiences. During my second and third internship, I had the opportunity to develop multiple unit and lesson plans that I then evaluated students on. In this, I had the opportunity to truly see how to successfully target and evaluate what I set out to grade. I developed an awareness of test security, practicality, and transparency in which I provided my students with all the information and time required for them to learn, practice, and develop their skills before they were to be evaluated. During my final field placement, I further developed my skills, this time with students at a much younger age. Having the time and opportunity to work with students at completely different ages and levels provided me with the chance to truly develop this professional competency. I do believe I still have much to learn about evaluation though, seeing as I did not have the opportunity to put everything together in the report cards which is a big aspect of development that I am still missing and will need to develop when I start working in my very own classroom.
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For one of my courses, I was required to create a test that could be used in the classroom. This allowed me to develop the competency since I had to consciously think about what it is that I would be evaluating and keep my questions relevant and focused throughout so that the test would be accurate. This was the first opportunity I had to evaluate my own skills at creating a valid and successful test.
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During my second and third internships, I created a unit plan on E-waste for both my grade 7 and grade 9 classes. Both consisted of virtually the same information with some modifications made to match the level of the students. I created the instructions of the projects I was asking students to complete and thus needed to create rubrics that would accurately grade students on the information I was requiring them to know and understand. The rubrics that I created are PEI specific, as my groups were part of the program, that I simply needed to adapt to properly fit the project that I was asking the students to complete.
During my final internship, I had the opportunity to do several tests with my students. Throughout the week, we would start a unit of words and continue working on their numbers from 0-100. By the end of the week, the students were given a zoo-phonics and math test to check for understanding and development of the work that they accomplished throughout the week. We then write down each student’s grade so that we could keep track of how they were doing and be able to confidently grade them in each subject area by report card time. Finally, this testing gave us the opportunity to keep parents updated on how their child is doing and if they need to spend more time studying their words and numbers with them at home.
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