Teacher Expectations

Teacher expectations refer to inferences that teachers make about the future academic achievement of students. The teacher creates the learning target and decides where the child should be at the end of the assignment, at the end of a unit, or at the end of a marking period. The teacher can therefore expect the students to reach a certain point in learning, only if the learning targets are clear to the students.

I believe that teachers who expect high achievement from their students will have better results than teachers who have low expectations because the students will feel motivated to meet the teacher's expectations as long as they aren't unreachable. All objective and goals must be explained and the students need to know how to assess their own work.

Homework

There are many different types of formative assessment techniques, they include oral questioning, informal observation, quizzes, homework and classwork. All formative assessment is used to give the teacher information on where a child stands and how they can improve. Portfolios are also classified as formative assessment because they contain a child's work from then to now.

Homework is one method of formative assessment. "Homework provides formative information about how learning is progressing, it allows errors to be diagnosed and corrected, and it combines practice, reinforcement, and assessment." Homework doesn't put students on the spot in front of the rest of the class. Homework is an indirect way to judge how much progress a student is making as they learn in the classroom.