Assessing Student Learning

Establishing and Communicating Learning Goals for all Students

PTS Name: Assessing Student Learning

Element: Establishing and communicating learning goals for all students

Use subject matter standards from district, state, and other sources to guide how I establish learning goals for each student?
Involve all students and families in establishing goals for learning?
Review and revise learning goals with every student over time?
Ensure that student learning goals reflect the key subject matter concepts, skills, and applications?
Ensure that goals for learning are appropriate to my students’ development, language acquisition, or other special needs?
Ensure that my grading system reflects goals for student learning?
Work with other educators to establish learning goals and assessment tools that promote
student learning

Conferencing with students to create and review personal learning goals
Meeting with each students’ families at scheduled intervals throughout the school year to review and discuss student learning goals
Working with other teachers and instructional support staff to review students’ individual goals to ensure rigor and appropriateness
Posting students’ long-term and short-term goals in the classroom and regularly conferring with students to reflect on progress
Designing rubrics to measure progress toward goals in addition to performance

Creating learning goals for students at the beginning of the year, and using those goals without modification or revision as necessary throughout the year
Writing student learning goals in language which is inaccessible to them and as a result they cannot articulate goals for themselves or determine whether they are successfully making progress
Establishing a grading system where assignment value is not aligned with learning and assessment goals (ex. A 10 question T/F quiz is worth 30% of a marking period grade while a 2-month research project is only worth 10%)