Growing Success

Growing Success (2010) and Growing Success - The Kindergarten Addendum (2016) offers a variety of principles, policies and practices teachers and educators should be implementing in their classrooms. The main goal of these documents is to show that assessment's purpose is to improve students learning. 

I think one of my favourite parts of Growing Success is the chart that goes into detail about the Learning Skills and Work Habits. This chart acts as a guide for what each skill and habit should look like. This chart has helped me and will continue to serve as a resource in m placement and career when trying to help the students succeed and carry out these skills and habits to the best of their abilities. By providing educators with what these things should look like in the classroom benefits the students because they also know their expectations.

Growing Success has impacted many of my beliefs about assessment in a variety of ways.  Firstly, it has positively changed my perspective of assessment as a whole. Until reading through Growing Success I never thought of assessment as a way to improve student learning but instead just to document the students' successes and levels. The document contains so many different principles on what assessment should be that assessment to me has become a positive thing. By assessing a student properly you can can promote and help students improve their learning. You are providing them feedback on what they did well, what they were missing and where they are standing, in terms of their levels. Improving student learning can and will lead to the students' SUCCESS.

Growing Success can help an educator ensure their students are receiving the best possible education by providing them with strategies, expectations and assistance. I think Growing Success is a fantastic resource that, even though I have already used, I will continue to use into my placements, and in my future classrooms.