Kristina Tzetzos presented via Skype on the concept of “Assessment As Learning” as a platform for students to self-reflect and build their meta cognitive skills. Kristina believes learning is social and comes in many forms. Additionally, she states  you need to find yourself as an educator and be the person you want to become. She is sharing and showing us ideas that we can take away from and specifically use her as a resource to gather ideas.  Kristina has experience ranging from Elementary to Secondary as she has taught English, literature, and writing at the secondary level and grade 5 and 6 in the elementary level.

Through this presentation I learned that assessment like math is literacy-it needs to be practiced. Just because you were a student does not necessarily mean you will be a fit teacher as she explains. You need practice, practice, and practice to self-reflect and improve through time.  I think this really stood out to me because she was honest and did not just jog around the concept. I agree with her like I feel sometimes I get ahead of myself and think I can do the task efficiently but then when I do it, sometimes I really am not understanding but just doing the work to get it done. For example, if a student hands in a story and I mark it based on completion and not if that individual understood the story – I am missing essentially if my student is understanding the material and that is much more important then completing the task altogether. Above is a link of assessment for learning vs. Assessment of Learning which helped me understand the difference and the benefits of each concept.