Work+Skills+Self-Assessment

Lesson Name: Work Skills Quarterly Self-Assessment Submitted by Alix McKee Standard(s): 1B Student demonstrates awareness of their personal traits. (I am aware of my traits, what I do well, and what areas I can work on. 2D Student demonstrates ability to set and achieve goals. (I can set and achieve goals that will help me to be successful.) Materials: Work Skills Self-Assessment pencil Time: 30 minutes Goals: Students will reflect on their work, celebrate strengths and recognize opportunities for improvement. Assessments/Activities: At the end of the quarter, students in the Open Optional program at Chinook create a portfolio to reflect on and share their work from the previous months. As part of this process, they complete self-assessment or reflection checklists for language arts, math, work skills and specials. At first, I slightly modified checklists I obtained from Everyday Math, colleagues at Chinook Open Optional, and current and former colleagues at Bowman Optional. Recently, I rewrote the work skills assessment to better reflect our class agreements.

[|Work and play assessment.doc] The teacher reads the checklist aloud and while students put a checkmark to indicate how they are doing in relation to the various statements. Discussions about the qualifiers (never, sometimes, often/usually) are helpful to students in clarifying the teacher’s meaning and reflecting on their strengths and opportunities. Students are asked to write a description of their homework routine each evening. The teacher reviews the student-completed checklist and makes written comments and checkmarks as necessary to provide feedback. Self-assessments are shared with parents during conferences or portfolio shares.