EDLD 5364- What I learned Week 4

This week I had an epiphany regarding assessments after our Week 4 readings. As we trek closer to the STAAR exam, this reading was really appropriate for me. Ultimately, the biggest lesson I learned this week in my Teaching with Technology class is that we must always remember that assessment must be used to evaluate ourselves as teachers, and our teaching methods, just as much as it is used to evaluate student learning. By changing the way we assess our students so that we are truly assessing their knowledge and skills and not just their test-taking ability, we gain a better understanding of how to improve them and how to improve ourselves as well. We must remember that we are all learners, we must learn with our students, and we can build relationships by sharing with them the excitement of creating new knowledge that is self-assessing as the lessons progress.

• Teaching Every Student in the Digital Age: Universal Design for Learning, Chapter 7
• • Rose, D., & Meyer, A. (2002). Teaching every student in the digital age: Universal design for learning. Alexandria, VA: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development. Chapter 7. Available online at the Center for Applied Special Technology Web site. Retrieved from http://www.cast.org/teachingeverystudent/ideas/tes/