Daily Action
The discussion about fairness made me think a lot today. How fair am I with my students and my colleagues? How do I define fairness at school? I am using an ongoing formative assessment approach to assess my students, but am I fair? Am I meeting each student where they are? The assessments we use to grade and report students are mostly standardized. In the discussion today it struck me that even if my school values student growth, we use standardized tests to measure their growth.
My action would be to make my daily observations and formative assessments more fair for the variety of students I have in the classroom. Fair measures that recognize the differences, offer accommodations and adjustments where needed, and do not follow the "one size fits all" approach.
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