Visitors to our site have found us many ways, the top searches being “RTI” and “assessments.” Our posts on these topics have been our most popular, so I am providing links directly to them so you can find them easily.
In June we talked about whether or not RTI can help relieve oregon’s growing need for exceptional students. We followed that with a post on Oregon for response to intervention resources.
In September we had a 3-post back to school series. First we shared reading assessments and then math assessments. The final post in the series shared a document to help teachers help involve parents in the IEP process.
Thank you for making these first few months at OregonCEC.org successful. As the school year continues, what would you like us to focus on next? Leave your suggestions in the comments.
It’s nice to see that our state CEC is active again and has a web presence.
Thanks Steve, it is good to be here and we are glad you are here too!
–Larry @ Oregon CEC
Diagnostic assessments are essential instructional tools for effective English-language Arts and reading teachers. However, many teachers resist using these tools because they can be time-consuming to administer, grade, record, and analyze. Some teachers avoid diagnostic assessments because these teachers exclusively focus on grade-level standards-based instruction or believe that remediation is (or was) the job of some other teacher. To be honest, some teachers resist diagnostic assessments because the data might induce them to differentiate instruction—a daunting task for any teacher. And some teachers resist diagnostic assessments because they fear that the data will be used by administrators to hold them accountable for individual student progress. Check out ten criteria for effective diagnostic ELA/reading assessments at http://penningtonpublishing.com/blog/reading/ten-criteria-for-effective-elareading-diagnostic-assessments/ and download free whole-class comprehensive consonant and vowel phonics assessments, three sight word assessments, a spelling-pattern assessment, a multi-level fluency assessment, six phonemic awareness assessments, a grammar assessment, and a mechanics assessment from the right column of this informative article.