Mary Hawkins

InTASC Standard: The teacher understands and uses multiple methods of assessment to engage learners in their own growth, to monitor learner progress, and to guide the teacher’s and learner’s decision making (InTASC, 2013).

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Brief Description of Evidence:  

The evidence I have chosen for this standard is an Observation Journal completed in my spring semester of 2022 in my EDUC 240 Introduction to Physical and Health Education for Elementary Teachers class. In this assignment, we were tasked with watching and observing a variety of videos of elementary P.E. classes. We were then to answer questions given to us over the videos. In the questions we were tasked with thinking about what we may do if we saw any negative behaviors, and describing what those behaviors looked like. We also described what the environments they were in looked like and if they were appropriate, along with different ways the teachers were able to present the activities and material to the students. Throughout this assignment, I was able to observe multiple teachers and activities that allowed me to think about how teaching such a course can be altered by student, grade, and ability. 

 

Analysis of What I Learned:

In this assignment, I was able to observe various P.E. lessons and how different they can look. It was interesting to observe these and see the teachers incorporating different disciplines into the physical activity. In one video, the students were climbing a wall while trying to connect letters/words. I also learned that at times in a gym environment it can be hard to redirect behaviors because it’s such a large space with a lot going on, but on the other hand it’s a great environment to incorporate multiple activities that use similar skills. In one video many stations involved jumping, which would allow the students to practice that skill in multiple ways. The space and use of separate stations also allowed the students to have more freedom and autonomy than they might in a traditional classroom setting. The journals allowed me to document what I learned and think about how I may handle various situations exemplified in them as an educator. I found I was able to see a lot of Gardner’s theory of multiple intelligences in these videos as well (Cherry, (2021).  It was easy to see the children who learned more kinesthetically found the activities easier and were more excited to practice them. It was also interesting to learn that the teachers would leave a poster with pictures and word instructions of each movement the students were supposed to do at the stations, which would be helpful to those students who have a more visual/spatial intelligence (Cherry, 2021). 

 

How This Artifact Demonstrates my Competence on the InTASC Standard: ​

This artifact demonstrates my competence by showing I can identify multiple methods of assessment; in this case, they were the various stations in the videos that allowed the students to practice the same skill in different ways, as well as allowing the students to choose which stations/methods they enjoyed the most. By allowing the students more freedom to practice their skills, the teacher is then able to see if they are ready to move on a build onto said skill or if they need more time to practice and master it. By using multiple methods of assessment the teacher is able to meet a learner where they are at and see under what methods they thrive. Some students are going to perform better in an assessment where they are unaware they are being assessed, while other students are going to perform better on a more traditional style test. It’s important to recognize what students are in your classroom in order to adapt accordingly, whether that be to add new content to a lesson or spend more time on what the students are already working on,  so their success is at the forefront. 

 

Citation:

Cherry, K. (2021, July 28). Gardner’s Theory of Multiple Intelligences. Verywellmind. www.verywellmind.com/gardners-theory-of-multiple-intelligences-2795161

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Council of Chief State School Officers. (2013, April). Interstate Teacher Assessment and Support Consortium InTASC Model Core Teaching Standards and Learning Progressions for Teachers 1.0: A Resource for Ongoing Teacher Development. Washington, DC: Author.