Right before school began, I blogged about this assessment folder that I was going to implement this school year.
I have linked with The Elementary Entourage to share tips and tricks to keep our sanity and be organized!
Four months into the school year and I find this method to be very easy to use and simple. I do not need to have tons of booklets with me when assessing my students. It has also become very easy to use for my assistant - if she is not sure the skill (or measure) the activity is assessing, she can easily go to teh reference page on the back.
This past year I tried several methods to collect my data. I tried sticky notes, a notebook for notes, pictures (which was very helpful.....most of the time ;)) and the worst for me was anecdotal notes on sheets of papers - which I would misplace and had to hunt them all over the classroom.
This week I found this amazing post on Thank God it's First Grade, where she talks about the method she uses for
Well, I think this may be the solution for my data collection dilemma. This is what I am going to use:
To create these data collection folders you'll need, folders, tape, index cards and markers. I intend to use a different colored binder for each assessment period/quarters. |
It gotta be cute right?! These beautiful graphics are from Creative Clipart by Krista Wallden. |
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Keep learning...and assessing!
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