Lesson 3.7: Individual Literacy Profile
Focus: Ongoing records that include summaries of all of the assessment information gathered will comprise an informative profile of a student’s literacy progress. Create and maintain an individual literacy profile for each of your target students.
Prior to the Collaboration Group Meeting
1. Reflection Journal
Write in your reflection journal prior to the Collaboration Group meeting. You are to respond weekly in your journal, reflecting on your learning, observation, questions, and personal connections. Your reflections need to be at least 250 words. You may choose how to format your journal, though you may want to consider the following as you write:
- What are some new understandings you made this week as a result of the work for this lesson and your work with your students?
- How has this new understanding influenced your current practice?
Bring your reflection journal to the weekly Collaboration Group meeting, and prepare to share your entries.
2. Classroom Application
- Read the book South Pacific Literacy Education Course, Unit 9: Monitoring Progress (pp. 71-96). As you read, consider the following questions:
- What information do you consider important to students' literacy development?
- Do you have enough information to tell the literacy story of your target students?
- Read Literacy Profiles in this lesson.
- Create a sturdy file folder for each of your students that is large enough to hold at least one year of profile data. Keep the folders in a secure place because they contain personal information about the students. Suggestion: Print the student’s name, large enough to read easily, on the file tab.
- File each student’s assessments in his/her folder.
3. Guided Questions
- Write a short summary for each of the students to add to their literacy profile. Be prepared to talk about one student’s literacy profile and the way that you organized the assessment information at the Collaboration Group meeting. A summary could include some of the following:
- What are the child’s strengths across all assessments administered? For example, what does this child do well?
- Are there patterns across assessments from what you have collected?
- What are some areas of need? For example, what will you work on with this child?
During the Collaboration Group Meeting
- Share your reflection journal entries.
- Share one student literacy profile, discussing the way you organized your information as well as the literacy strengths and needs of this particular student. This presentation should be no more than 15 minutes. Leave some time for questions from the group. If there are four people in your Collaboration Group, this should take the group one hour.
- Determine the facilitator, recorder, timekeeper, date, time, and location for the next Collaboration Group meeting.
After the Collaboration Group Meeting
- Email all of your literacy profiles to the instructor. Send your assignment(s) to the instructor as an attachment to an email message. Be sure to include your name, date, location, and title on the document. Also, include your name and lesson title in each file name.
- The recorder emails the notes to the instructor.
- The timekeeper emails the attendance to the instructor.
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