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Jamie Simoes EDC 452 Journal #2 Assessments can be conducted in multiple ways that involve the student’s attention and also in ways where the students have no idea that they are being assessed. Today in my classroom my teacher introduced me to her assessment journal. This journal has a page for every student in her classroom in it and she uses it to assess the students on a daily basis. She assesses her students while they are doing multiple things throughout the day. They may be working independently, in groups, or one on one with her. In this journal the teacher keeps notes on every student. This journal helps her not only assess the students constantly but it also helps her keep track of what she sees during an entire school day. She informed me that it is place where she can write things down that she sees and not forget it come the end of the day. It helps her stay organized and supplies her with crucial information about each individual student. My teacher says that her assessment journal really helps her when it comes to filling out report cards and also when she has parent teacher conferences because she has specific information on each and every student. Without the journal she said that she would have a very hard time keeping track of all her observations. I found her assessment journal to be a great asset to her classroom. I loved the idea of taking notes about each student while they perform multiple tasks through out the day. It seems to be a great way to assess each student and keep track of what you observe. I will definitely incorporate the idea of an assessment journal into my own classroom one day.

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