Professional Resource Project by Paige Guthrie
I have created an assessment flowchart for new teachers who want to ensure their assessment are reaching students who do not find relevance, meaning, or accessibility in what you had planned for the class or course.
This flow chart was designed after research conducted with active teachers across two provinces, a special education teacher, Trevor McKenzie’s Inquiry book, the EduCrush podcast, and various sites around the lovely internet (linked in my networking project linked here). These sources all led me to create this flowchart that will help new teachers develop the assessment muscle that seasoned teachers seem to flex effortlessly (but takes me upwards of 20 hours in my infancy teaching stage).
This flowchart will take your assessment and ask questions of it surrounding oral skill aspects (and the surrounding anxiety there), reading skills and engagement, and writing skills and engagement. Each aspect of your assessment will be questioned and at the end of each line of questioning a series of resources will be provided that give inspiration and ideas for how to make your assessment more accessible and engaging for your students.
This project is an ongoing exercise and I plan to add to it as I gather resources. Once I no longer need it (once my assessment muscles grow big and strong) I will continue to update this resource and share it with new teachers in my community and online. Any way to decrease the anxiety around assessment planning while maintaining the drive to make assessments relevant and accessible for students is research well spent.
Please enjoy looking through this and drop a comment if you see something missing!