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HIGH-STAKES ASSESSMENTS               HIGH-STAKES ASSESSMENT High-stakes assessment is used to measure learning that are cumulative and the assessment have high importance consequences. It involves graduation, grade advancement. High stake assessment is usually used to make important decision about student school or district and educators as well. They are generally standardized test. Growing up as a student in my country in Nigeria, I was faced with the pressure of passing my exams or repeating the grade level. Most times the intentions for high stake assessment is bias. The pressure I faced were enough to give me bad grades. Teachers in my school were concerned about result more than knowing if students have met with the objective of the lesson. In my school, there was no place for differentiated instruction, students would even have to do extra study on their own, write notes and read on their own, sometimes do all night r...

MULTICULTURAL CONTENT AND MULTIPLE PERSPECTIVES My school is an International Community School and has students and families from over 50 countries. We work on the school mission that says “Learning and Leading in a Collaborative Culture.” This mission helps teachers, administration, students and parents to stay together as a family. A community as diverse as this presents a complex challenge: In a place with so many different values and belief systems, what role should an educator play? It is important for me as an educator to have a cultural awareness of the students’ lives and backgrounds. Without this awareness, my sensitivity and compassion for each child would not be able to develop, one of a classroom teacher’s most important roles is to help students develop the critical thinking, collaboration and self-reflection skills necessary to foster a better society. Having multicultural content in lesson plan helps to make students feel inclusive, it brings out student’s voice...

            Differentiating for and Anticipating for Student Needs. Differentiating lesson plans is a powerful tool for teachers to meet student needs. It ensures the achievement of lesson objectives and the engagement of students. As I reflect on working on this activity I realized that no two students have the same learning method, level, and ability. Research base emerges that not all children learn in the same way. In order to lead the whole class to a targeted objective, differentiation helps to engage students from who and where they are. The difference among students comes from their backgrounds and cultural links. As its result, students differ from three important ways, learning profiles, interests, and levels of readiness. Even though the history of Differentiated instruction (DI) goes back to the days where one room school used to hold all age range of students together after the education system transitioned to grading school, it was ...

          Articulating Outcomes: Thinking Like an Assessor The Standard 3.NBT.2 . Fluently add and subtract within 1000 using strategies and algorithm based on place value, properties of operation and/or the relationship between addition and subtraction (the unit is Money). The standard will require at least five lessons before the students will be prepared to take the summative test. The students will be given a formative project or exam at the end of each lesson to ensure that they understand the material that is being taught in each block of instruction. Some objective of the unit will be: • Students will be able to develop word problems involving money and will have correct answers to the questions and they will also be able to give answer to at least one question from 3 peers. • Students will be able to demonstrate understanding of the uses and importance of money. • They will be able to add and subtract money in different...