Kindergarten - Assessment for Learning

Our learning is often provisional and frequently changes with time. Students have an ever-increasing ability, with intentional time, space, and support to set goals, assess learning, track progress, and present their growth - creating an environment where they are co-designers of their learning.

Kindergarten students recording their thinking about spheres on a large chart paper

Support students to identify their strengths and challenges by building structures to support them in reflecting on their learning. Include opportunities for students to respond to peer and teacher feedback within instructional arcs. By reflecting on their own learning and that of their peers, students are better equipped to ask for what they need and to use this information to make decisions about their goals, their learning, and their future.

Supporting Assessment for Learning Link to this section

Use these practices, and practices like these, to support student thinking and academic ownership

Student Artifacts Link to this section

Standards-Based Skills: Students will be able to...

  • Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them. (CCSS) (GP)
  • Ask and answer questions in order to seek help, get information, or clarify something that is not understood. (CCSS) (GP)
  • With guidance and support from adults, respond to questions and suggestions from peers and add details to strengthen writing as needed. (CCSS)
  • Use observations to describe patterns and/or relationships in their world in order to answer questions and solve problems. (NGSS)
  • Compare predictions (based on prior experiences) to what occurred (observable events). (NGSS)
  • Adjust actions and plans when faced with a challenge or problem. (GP)
  • Create a goal and do things to complete that goal. (GP)
     

These skills are taken from the kindergarten standards found within the - Common Core State Standards, Next Generation Science Standards, College Career and Civic Life Framework for Social Studies, ELD Framework, and SFUSD Graduate Profile

Reflection Questions Link to this section

  1. How can prioritizing assessment for learning develop academic ownership and honor students' experiences?
  2. Where does assessment for learning currently show up in your practice? What is working well for students? How do you know? 
  3. What are the implications for your own practice? What will you do first?

This page was last updated on April 27, 2023