The assessment process with my students is something I think carefully about. Being 'assessed' for knowledge is something that often triggers shame with many students which leads to shutting down. The understanding by design book added the Latin origin of the word, "assess" meaning to "sit with" the student. I appreciate this detail because it adjusts the 'tone' of the word and too places this process in relationship to the student which makes it more culturally comfortable for my students to consider that we are all 'in it' together.
Having said that I try to create assessment assignments which have challenge, familiarity, cultural openings (to allow their culture to have space), bridges to the larger world and some kind of interaction.
What I learned in thinking, reading and pondering the content of Tuesday's class is that I need to be clearer in my mind about relating all that to the kinds of assessment/assignments I give. I feel a strong consciousness about my role in bringing new 'outside' ideas and processes to my students...
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