assessment

I have to say that I am better at summative assessments than formative assessments. However, I have been trying to assess my students on how well they met my objective each lesson. Things that have been helping me are a anecdotal record sheet for each subject where I make notes about the students and I keep on a clip board and exit tickets.

The demands on bilingual kindergarten teachers to do three different kinds of aimsweb assessments, one-on-one with each kid was a major challenge for me the last few weeks because it takes 20 minutes to do each test with each child. Formal assessments like these bring some good information to assess how the student is growing but take a lot of time away from instruction... I wish there was someone in my room that could help me with one or the other because it is so hard to balance them both and still make sure the activities are meaningful for all students. It has been pretty amazing to see how much some of my little kindergarteners has grown though.