Blog #5

For my use of assessment in the classroom, I would rate myself as a #3.  I could do a lot better.  Although I have used pre-assessments, I really have not figured out a way to differentiate instruction for as little as 2 or as big as 15 students.  It has been frustrating, as I have not had much direction in the way of curriculum.  I could definitely do better.  I am planning to create pre-assessments for each section, and create a pre-assessment for the class completely.  I have remedial math students.  However, from experience, some of these students are at the pre-algebra level or below, and some are into the second year algebra.  It's difficult to differentiate and do these pre-assessments.  I am planning to create my own, and be able to show some type of improvement for these students.  I have used it to figure out, to a degree, which of the old standards the students need help on; however, I have had trouble in using this data effectively.