Entry 4: Assesment

Something that I admired about this teacher was that assessments were informal and fun, therefore the students didn't know they were being assessed and didn't have that pressure hanging over them. Instead of having a paper with questions about the water cycle they were given a blank paper and had access to crayons, pencils, rulers, art supplies, etc, and asked to diagram the water cycle however they liked and present their idea to a small group.

Creativity ran wild and each project looked slightly different from the rest, but they all showed the students understanding of the concept. I do not know if this is necessarily possible with the majority of assessments that need to be done, but it was extremely effective in this instance.