How many of you observe your students and record what you see?
How about conference with them and take notes?
Doing both will help drive your instruction!
It has been proven that by systematically collecting and analyzing anecdotal comments, teachers can evaluate students' progress and abilities to inform and plan appropriate instruction.
Anecdotal Means: An anecdotal record is "a written record kept in a positive tone of a child's progress based on milestones particular to that child's social, emotional, physical, aesthetic, and cognitive development," notes the American Association of School Administrators (1992, p. 21).
There are two overall purposes of using anecdotal records:
- to identify the instructional needs of students
- to provide information about students’ development over an extended period of time
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