Student Self Assessment

When we switched to our current teacher evaluation system, student self assessment was the big concept my team wanted to focus on.

In Kindergarten, we created bookmarks for math and ELA that focused on the main skills we wanted to track throughout the year. We mount them on construction paper. We highlight the areas they have accomplished and review often with the kids. They can tell us what their next goal is and where they are now with their skills.

Our math bookmark focuses on 3 skills: oral counting, counting objects one by one, and counting objects in a set:

 Front:

Back:

Our ELA bookmark is based on letters, sounds, and sight words. We have reading levels, which are based on IRLA.

Front:

Back:

Stapled to back once letters and sounds are completed:

Another student self assessment piece was found by my new K partner, Leah Marsland. The original idea used sticky notes with student's name to mark how they felt they did on a lesson goal. We improved the idea by getting magnets. Each student in our class has a number, so we marked their number on each magnet.

Red means "I need a lot of help with the skill."

Yellow means "I did OK, but I might still need some help."

Green means "I did great." 
Purple means "I did great. I can teach this to someone else."

You can use this concept for any lesson goal. We can also take a picture of it and send it as evidence to our principal.

You can purchase magnets at: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07DCMTMXV/ref=cm_sw_em_r_mt_awdo_86AxCbWEC51JB

More About Stations

When people come to my room, I get a lot of questions about how I do stations. You can read my previous posts "Games, Games, and More Games" for ELA and "Math Stations" for math to get a detailed description with links.

I have set alarm clocks every 10 minutes for math stations and 20 minutes for reading stations, using https://www.timeme.com/alarm-clock-50.htm. Students have a Word document on their laptop. Each monster stands for a different station. II link the monster to the website/file that matches the station (dailies) activities. Here is a description of what each monster means.

Math:

Reading:

Here is what a student's computer doc looks like:

You can see that the monsters match the different stations/dailies. Math links are a little different.The Green monster is the "Math by Myself." I put that image because it is the one they see when they go to the link (Ready Math). If you zoom in on "Math by Myself," you will see a very tiny i-ready monster.