I. PLANNING FOR TEACHING AND LEARNING                                                                                 PACES

TEACHING AND LEARNING COMPONENT

I.F Assessment and Evaluation
Formal and informal assessment and evaluation procedures provide the teacher and learners with ongoing information for improvement and growth and evaluative judgments relative to standards. To accommodate learner differences and a variety of cognitive and/or performance levels, formal and informal assessment and evaluation procedures should contain a variety of procedures and items. The PLAN should specify times and activities for communicating performance expectations and for providing diagnostic feedback to learners.

Sample Professional Growth Activity 1
Comprehension
  1. Select one or more learning objective(s) consistent with the Sunshine State Standards or the Competency-Based Curriculum for your grade/subject area.
  2. Obtain and review samples of formal assessment instruments appropriate to your selected objective(s) from your department or grade-level chairperson.
Practical Application
  1. Using the formal assessment instruments provided by your department or grade-level chairperson, resources provided by the text publishers, and the PACES Teaching and Learning Professional Growth Manual develop both formative and a summative assessment instruments to measure learner progress toward mastery of the learning objective(s).
  2. Develop a series of lesson plans for the chosen objective(s) that provide for communicating performance expectations and diagnostic feedback to learners and parents as appropriate.
Assessment
  1. In collaboration with the Colleague Teachers, assess the plans and assessment instruments.

Sample Professional Growth Activity 2
Comprehension
  1. Select one or more learning objective(s) consistent with the Sunshine State Standards or the Competency-Based Curriculum for your grade/subject area.
  2. Research assessment instruments and procedures as well as different cognitive and performance levels, (utilize professional journals, the Internet, and skilled colleagues).
Practical Application
  1. Develop both formative and a summative assessment instruments to measure learner progress toward mastery of the learning objective(s).
Assessment
  1. In collaboration with the Colleague Teachers, assess the appropriateness of the assessment instruments.

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