This is a great question and a good place to begin implementing DI in your classroom. It is important to consider what your students already know so that you can make your instruction more effective. Let's discuss-what are ways that you preassess in your classrooms?
A great way to pre-assess in the classroom is through anadotal notes. I have a notebook for writing quick little things that I see or hear my students throughout the school day. This helps when developing goals and ability levels. Also, I use it when filling out report cards. It is a great tool to use along side of all those assessments taken.
ReplyDeleteI like the notebook idea. Do you organize it by student or by day?
ReplyDeleteI organize the records in the notebook and binders as individual children so that if I need a quick reference on a specfic child I am able to do so. I also arange check lists by subject area and then by individual child in each area. This seems to organize all the collected information in a way that is easy to use for report cards, progress reports, or determining pods or work groups. :)
ReplyDeleteI use a similar method. On the inside of a manila file folder, I tape index cards that fan down in two columns. Each card has a student's name at the bottom. When spontaneously assessing, I just flip the card to an individual student and jot down my notes. It is very easy and valuable at report card time.
ReplyDeleteI like to preassess by using teacher created checklists. They are easy to read, easy to jot down notes on and send home to parents. I preassess by working one on one with a child. As a First Grade teacher, some of the things I assess are reading skills, writing skills (proof reading, sentence structure), math skills (counting by twos, fives and tens, tens and ones,odd and even) and life skills (such as left and right, months of the year, days of the week).
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