Examples of Pretests, Inventories, and Observations
- Use written or verbal pretests.
- Observe how students perform when new tasks or integration of skills are required.
- Review previous school information, including school cumulative file information (e.g., report card grades, standardized assessment scores) and IEPs or 504 plans for students who have mild disabilities.
- Interview individual or small groups of students about their preferred learning style and information they would like the teacher to keep in mind when planning and delivering instruction.
- Preteach or review strategies needed for student proficiency in the given content area.
- Ensure students are aware of and familiar with course goals, what information the course is building on, and how the information pertains to real-life experiences.
- Ask students what they know, remember, and already do with content related to the specific unit or course curriculum outcomes.
- Determine what types of experiences the students have from which to build on the course outcomes.
- Plan how to provide background experiences so students who do not have a rich or sufficient background relative to course outcomes can gain from you some anchor that they can use to assimilate and apply the new course content.
- Allow students to show their knowledge and skills in varied ways, such as writing, performing, demonstrating, showing, etc.
- Allow students to write, tell or show what they know in flexible ways that still accomplish the required criteria established for other students (accommodations) or that have minor (adaptations) to major (parallel) standards established for specific students.
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