Week 3 Assignment 2

The group activities discussed in the CCSS toolkit were amazing ideas of how to implement the standards and cover many areas at one time. I think the key of assessment in such assignments includes a variety of assessment tools. Firstly, I think informal assessment that has clear goals in mind is very helpful. For example, the teacher can observe a group and look out for three things. They can look for participation, level of understanding through the way the student responds and the way the children are able to work together. The teacher can also create a rubric that the students receive before beginning the assignment and use that to grade the final product in a more formal way. In regards to the different reading levels with in a class, I think that using ones knowledge about the levels of the students to create groups, hand out topics etc is important.

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