Derek Place

In a CTE setting skills tests help prepare students for real word testing in their career field.

Having a general understanding of student abilities prior to planning and developing lessons, allows the teacher to include supports in the lessons, projects, and assessment to allow all students to learn, remember and achieve.

Creating an exchange between teacher and students encourages students to participate in the class.  Allowing students to brainstorm their own questions encourages engagement and self motivation to learn.

I found it interesting that students can score 10-15% higher on assessments when they are presented in the student's dominant learning style. 

I like the idea of using groups of students with different learning styles.  This allows students to work with their preferred learning style while learning from others with different learning styles.

I have a lot of group work.  I like the idea of creating a rubric for group participation, giving it to students ahead of time and using it to score their participation and work in the group.

I would like to use portfolios with my students.  They complete so many projects in auto collision.  It would be great to have them take pictures of all the projects. They could keep a portfolio of the pictures and scored rubrics to show their growth throughout the course.

Providing students with a rubric prior to beginning a project or task allows the student to know what is expected of them.

Authentic assessment can be hard to create but they give the instructure a more complete understanding of the students knowledge and understanding of a concept and ability to complete a task.

Reading all essay questions and answers before assigning grade can reduce bias when grading.

Directing questions to individual students is a characteristic of an excellent question.  It reduces the impuls for all students to respond at once.