ADEPT+7

=Monitoring and enhancing learning=

“An effective teacher maintains a constant awareness of student performance throughout the lesson in order to guide instruction and provide appropriate feedback to students.”
A good teacher does not just look at how students do on a test, but keeps up with how they are constantly doing so they are able to help them throughout. I think it is really easy for teachers (or in many cases, the government) to look at test scores only to determine how students are doing, but I think it is really important to be aware of how students are responding to information at many different points in instruction. If a teacher only pays attention to test scores, they will realize a student needs help when it is too late. By constantly monitoring student performance, it is easy to find when students need help and provide it so they can be successful.

[|High Stakes Testing-Blackboard Document]
 * Evidence:**

As a future teacher, I know I will be teaching classes at some point which have a strong emphasis on standardized testing and, as indicated by the document, there are a lot of standardized tests which students have to go through. When I am teaching, I want to make sure that I don’t make “teaching to the test” a top priority, but rather focus on how students are constantly doing. I think that if teachers pay attention to student work and progress throughout the year, they will do well on the test.
 * Rationale:**