Assessment

1. Journals--There are daily journal prompts that students must complete; it is themed with holidays or events that took place that day. Journals usually written in narrative form, are subjective, and deal more with feelings, opinions, or personal experiences. Journal entries are usually more descriptive, longer, open-ended, and freer flowing than logs. They are often used to respond to pieces of literature, describe events, comment on reactions to events, reflect on personal experiences and feelings, and connect what is being studied in one class with another class or with life outside the classroom.

2. Teacher Made Quizzes--They are administered every week, which takes away the necessary tests that students must take. It is written/oral assessments that are not commercially produced or standardized. In other words, a quizzes a teacher designs specifically for his or her students.

3. Class Discussion: A true discussion occurs when a GROUP of people including the leader, share experiences, debate ideas and theories, discuss experiences, and work together on common problems. It is not: a teacher asks a question and a participant answers. Class discussion can be used to initiate, amplify, or summarize a session.

4. Group work--Students work together to reach a common goal based on given task or assignment. Each student must have a role to help accomplish the goal, it should all be of fair weight when distributing task amongst one another.

5. Presentations--Students are to present a project or topics assigned to be researched and shared with the whole class.

6. Performance Tasks--Students are to create visuals and/or projects about their lesson/topics learned.

7. Accelerated Reading (AR): is a daily progress monitoring software assessment in wide use by primary and secondary schools for monitoring the practice of reading, and it is created by Renaissance Learning, Inc. Accelerated Reader is an assessment that primarily determines whether or not a child has read a book. The software provides additional information to teachers regarding reading rates, amount of reading, and other variables related to reading.