INTASC+Standard+8

** INTASC Standard 8 **
INTASC Standard 8: The teacher understands and uses formal and informal assessment strategies to evaluate and ensure the continuous intellectual, social and physical development of the learner.

__**Specific Category of Standard 8**__
 * INTASC.8.D || D: The teacher values ongoing assessment as essential to the instructional process and recognizes that many different assessment strategies, accurately and systematically used, are necessary for monitoring and promoting student learning. ||
 * INTASC.8.E || D: The teacher is committed to using assessment to identify student strengths and promote student growth rather than to deny students access to learning opportunities. ||

The teacher uses a variety of assessments to evaluate their students on all aspects of their education, which includes the students' intellectual, social, and physical development.
 * __Understanding Sentence__**


 * __Artifacts__**

Artifact 1: Artifact 2:

The artifacts cited for this standard both show evidence of a students’ progress by assessments. These artifacts accurately reveal connections to INTASC standard 8. Artifact 1 shows the value of ongoing assessment, a tutoring program over the course of a semester, as essential to the instructional process and recognizes that many different assessment strategies, accurately and systematically used, are necessary for monitoring and promoting student learning. Artifact 2 portrays that the teacher was committed to using assessment to identify student strengths and promote student growth rather than to deny students access to learning opportunities during this one tutoring session. These artifacts fully evaluate my knowledge, skills and dispositions that are related to this standard. Both of these artifacts show the importance of assessment. Assessments are the evaluation of instruction and progress within the classroom.
 * __Reflect__**

These artifacts describe my personal theory base and evolving philosophy because they support coaching in intellectual thinking and critical thinking. As a future teacher, in my classroom, I will use a variety of assessments and I will use them when they should most appropriately be used. I will use informal assessments to show student growth and progress or when I feel I should not place the pressure of a test on my students. I believe all the assessments should be used to make the student and the teacher more well rounded. Additionally, I am not a huge fan of the standardized tests, but they are required, so I will efficiently an adequately prepare my students for the assessments they must take.
 * __Project__**