2. Were students assessed individually or as a group?
Both. I spent a lot of time with a clipboard in my arm, like a
rubric, and it would have specific things I was looking for. And
I might have four or five students I was observing that day, and
I might make notes on some specific skill I worked with that student
on. For instance, if that student was struggling with a grammatical
problem in their writing, and I had worked on that, that is a note
I would make. If I was working with a student on adding details
to their story because their grammar and everything else was in
place, then that would be the note I would make; that I had worked
with them on adding detail or visualization to their story. So it
is very individualized, and at the end I can always document what
areas I worked on with that student and then look at their final
project and decide if there was growth there or not. They always
turn in their rough copies and their final copies. So they print
at the end of each day so we know what their progression is or what
changes they've made.
