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Shayla Mullaney 3/2/09 EDC 452 Assessment Journal 3 This week I noted my teacher assessing her students in the form of observation. She divided her class into 2 groups, separating out her ESL students. She had me take her non-ESL students and have them read the story to me, while she took her ESL students and had them read to her. My students finished much earlier and were told to work on other assignments while we waited for the other students. During this time I sat in on the ESL students’ read aloud. I felt like I was in a text talk, like in my EDC 424 class. I watched my host teacher pose open ended questions and assess students’ comprehension according to their answers. A common language for the rest of the group was created through these questions so students could learn how to better answer further question. When students were questioned, “What does pasture mean?”, and the response was someone who teaches at church, the teacher corrected the student and then left the question open. The question was answered by a different student using context clues such as “green” and “cows”. This was noted and encouraged by the teacher. I liked my teacher’s method of assessment this week because the students weren’t even aware that they were being assessed. It was fun to watch her interact with her students and still be aware of their improvement in knowledge and vocabulary through this read aloud session. I plan to become more aware of the discrete assessing because I think it works the best in the class because of the lack of stress.