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**Standard 8 Teachers know how to test for student progress** The teacher understands and uses formal and informal assessment strategies to evaluate and ensure the continuous intellectual, social, and physical development of the pupil.

Evidence:  Grant Proposal written in EDT 655   Rationale:  Using formal and informal assessment strategies to evaluate and ensure development in students is an important aspect of teaching. During my EDT 655 //Developing Grant Proposals Integrating Technology// class I decided to write a grant for Classroom Performance System (CPS) student response systems or better known as clickers. These clickers would allow students to receive immediate feedback, and enables the teacher to adapt the lesson and activities at the moment of instruction. While writing the grant I knew that these clickers would benefit my teaching, as well as ensure that I was helping the intellectual and social development of my students. My hope was for the students to become active learners and improve academic achievement through daily assessments by using the CPS Student Response System individually and collaboratively. I would be delivering more interactive and adaptive lessons to promote greater student involvement, achievement, and progress while capturing real-time assessment data.

 When I finished my EDT 655 class it was at the beginning of the 2011-2012 school year and the grant was due shortly after the class finished. I was unable to meet the deadline to submit the grant, but have the grant ready to be submitted at any time. Since we did not get the clickers, I decided to see what else I could use to get the same kind of results. A colleague of mine suggested a website called Socrative, which I found to have a similar set up as the clickers. I have used it with my 5th graders and they loved seeing their instant results on the screen.

 The grant writing process for the clickers is important to my development as a teacher because I now feel confident that I could write another grant with less difficulties the second time. Because schools are increasingly data driven the clickers will also be important to my development since the software for them provides ample data to share with others.

 I learned that the CPS Student Response System would be an excellent product for anyone looking for instant student performance feedback, a device that helps you identify learning needs, and can cut back on time grading quizzes or tests. The clickers will help impact student learning by increasing engagement, advance student achievement, and give teachers the tools necessary to provide current and best teaching practices for today’s 21st Century learners.

<span style="color: #008000; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">KSD: <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> **Knowledge: 8.K.2** The teacher knows how to select, construct, and use assessment strategies and instruments appropriate to the learning outcomes being evaluated and to other diagnostic purposes.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">The CPS Student Response System increases student engagement and achievement while providing real-time feedback and data to educators. The clickers would better prepare students for future success by using technology, allowing them to answer questions with confidence, and providing them with valuable feedback.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> **Skills: 8.S.6** The teacher maintains useful records of student work and performance and can communicate student progress knowledgeably and responsibly, based on appropriate indicators, to students, parents, and other colleagues.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">The CPS Student Response System records the quiz and test results and organizes the data, which gives teachers more time to meet the needs of students.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> **Dispositions: 8.D.2** The teacher is committed to using assessment to identify student’s strengths and promote student growth rather than to deny students access to learning opportunities.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">The CPS Student Response System allows educators to instantly see student results, which helps identify individual learning needs and then they can differentiate instruction as needed.