Multiple Methods of Assessment

 

Our Department strives for:

 

success for all students and how we’ll know when they get there;

making students partners in the educational enterprise by clearly defining our expectations for performance and letting students in on them;

encouraging student self-reflection and self-assessment;

developing assessments that demand real intellectual quality while honoring student diversity;

assisting educators to create a view of assessment that supports teachers and classroom instruction;

performance-based instruction and the central role of ongoing student assessment to guide and invigorate practice

in a classroom that is:

active, interactive, thoughtful, and reflective;

authentic and relevant;

open and conceptually demanding;

participatory and risk-taking;

observed and tracked;

multi-modal, multi-level, and multi-sensory;

warm, accepting, encouraging, and supportive

fun - an inviting and exciting place to be

 

within an effective Department/School that provides:

• a safe and orderly environment

• a climate of high expectations for success

• instructional leadership with clear, open communication

• a clear and focused mission

• a variety of opportunities to learn and student time on task

• frequent, ongoing monitoring of student progress

• home-school relations that make parents/students partners in learning.