Classroom Teacher Performance Assessment Guidelines July 08 DOC

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The knowledge and skills that preservice teachers need to bring to their final practical experience is around data collection and understanding their students and how they learn. They need to know how to gather the data, where to find it but, most importantly, how to analyse it and interpret it and forward plan with that data into the classroom. Within our school and other schools where I have also been site coordinator I’ve made certain that the first thing that is understood is the school context and the data that goes behind that. So it is what sort of environment do we work in. And then after that it is looking at what are the data sets that we, in our school, expect our teachers will work with, what diagnostic formats, what external data collection agencies will we be using, as well as how do we use our formative and…summative assessments. ...at the start of the year, I looked at their NAPLAN data, teacher notes that had been collated throughout the year and also sight words,