Chapter 4

• The one thing that has been instilled in me during my educational career is that everything you teach should be assessed. T
• There are many different ways to assess your students work both informally and formally. 
• Technology offers many different ways of assessing students formally with immediate results. One way we learned to informally assess our students is by asking them to show a thumbs down signal if they did not understand something. 
• The problem with this method is that some students may say they understand the topic and really don't. Teachers resort to this method because they need a quick way to know if they can move on to another part of the lesson or not. 
• Technology tools like Kahoot and socratic are a quick way to assess students on actual content with immediate results. 
• Another great tool technology offers is a safe place to store student work without having to worry that it would get lost or ruin. This could especially come in handy during a parent-teacher conference when a parent is asking why their child's score is so low. You can pull up quiz results, lessons and student work samples from an online portfolio.