• How will you collect data to get to know your learners and their strengths and challenges?
• What resources will you use to help you gather the data and evaluate it?
• How will you record and keep track of that data in order to make data-driven instructional decisions?

 

Data collection is the process of gathering and measuring information on targeted variables in an established system, which then enables you to answer relevant questions and evaluate incomes. Collecting data in order to get to know your learners and their strengths and challenges will include;

1. Surveys and questionnaire: Give your students a survey even if its a single question. This can be a great activity to evaluate your students and get to know their weakness and strengths.
2. Chatting it up!:Take a moment through out your day and connect with your students to know may be the challenges they are facing. For example, this can be while you are waiting on a line, coming in from a break, during transitions or when a group finishes up with you, keep one back to have a conversation before sending them.
3. Watch them: While your learners are working, observe them during unstructured breaks. How do they work? Are they focused? Do they appear to struggle? Which activity causes anxiety. Choosing to watch how a learner works or doesn't work can tell more about their strengths and challenges they might be facing in a situation like group discussions.
4. Trial and error: Giving your learners different tasks specifically to see how they respond can be helpful. For example, Do they do better with oral instructions or written instructions? As you work with learners you can learn the quirks about this specific class and if you keep track of these things, planning will be easier because you already know what problems might come up.
5. Their Past life: Former teachers can be helpful but you need strategies, not gossip. In stead of tell me about Jane. Say, what strategies did you use to help Jane write independently. Keeping it specific will help keep the opinions to a minimum. Before approaching past teachers, ask the learner which classes were more the most successful and start there if possible.

Data resource is a component of information technology infrastructure that represents all the data available to a particular research body. Data about knowing and your learners and their strengths and challenges can be;

• Learner's interaction with other learners
• Questioning fellow teachers
• Checking learner's previous performance, and
• Interview other learners

In order to make data-driven instructional decisions, recording and keeping track of learners data is very important. There are many different types of record keeping, whereby each can fall in either, Summative instructional data, or Formative instructional, or/and Attendance. These ways includes.

• Tests
• Project based learning
• Class check points
• Rubrics
• Pre-assessments
• Whole class snapshots, and
• Individual profile sheets