Kiely's Response 6

The most effective assessment models are ones in which the students are actively doing what you have taught. There should be small assessments of the individuals principles being taught, but also a comprehensive assessment to show that the students have internalized the information and can apply it to other areas of theatre, and hopefully, to other aspects of life. As students are learning smaller lessons, the pieces of the puzzle, the teacher can do simple things such as walking around and observing, so they can see the students actually working and doing what the teacher has taught. It could also be a more formal assessment where the students present to the class the projects they have been working on. An assessment could also be a written test where they are using pure intellect and recall. These assessments check understanding along the way of individual lessons. I also think the small lessons should build to a larger project where students are incorporating all the things they have learned along the way. This should either be a performance, or a large project of some kind. This assesses exactly how much the students have been learning and what they understand and what they are still confused about.

For my assessments I would follow this model of small informal assessments along the way to a larger project, so that I can fix problems the students are having or help them understand things that are still unclear. Part of those smaller assessments would include some written aspects, so the students who do better at tests can show that they do understand the material. The larger project would be a modeling-type project where they actually do what we have been talking about. This to me really shows what they have learned and I can see the growth they have had.