Pre-assessments establish a starting point for the teacher.

Pre-assessments establish a starting point for the teacher. The data collected from the pre-assessment drives the creation of targeted learning activities. Pre-assessment data is then compared to data collected throughout the activity to determine if students are progressing towards mastery of the learning objectives.

Create a pre-assessment activity for a K-4 used to collect data on an identified student’s performance levels for a mathematics objectives in counting 0-20.

Possible way of implementing the pre-assessment activity to identify learning needs that can be included in your targeted teaching activity. Following the pre-assessment, what activities could be used to support the identified student’s learning of at least one identified objective.

Discuss the following:

• How the results of the pre-assessment affect the revision of the targeted teaching activity.

• How formative assessments of the identified student’s ongoing learning during an activity might be conducted.

• How the pre-assessment and the learning objective are aligned.

• How the student’s interests were considered when designing the pre-assessment and the targeted teaching activity.

• How you plan to implement what you observed in your future teaching practice.