Assessment is required for educators to be able to engage learners in their own growth, monitor learner progress, and guide the instructional decision making. When planning and administering assessments to students, it is important that educators use multiple methods in order to differentiate the learning experiences and eliminate bias in the assessment. Ultimately, to make the assessments useful for future curriculum planning, the educator needs to interpret the assessment data and use it to help learners set goals.
I demonstrate my understanding of this professional standard with the Zine Project, the the culminating summative assessment of my Transcendentalism unit. Zines are mini-magazines often written by one individual and photocopied for cheap distribution. Zines tend to have a 
radical or offbeat message. Students worked in small groups to publish one zine of their own, centered around a Transcendentalist theme of their choosing like nonconformity, self-reliance, individualism, connection to nature, civil disobedience, or anti-materialism. Each group member made five contributions to the zine. Contributions could be poetry, prose, comic strips, drawings, photography, or some other creative interpretation of ideas explored throughout the unit. So, this assessment provides students with multiple ways to demonstrate their learning. The projects were put on display at Hidden Valley High School’s Titan 21 Night.
I also demonstrate my understanding of this professional 
standard through my implementation of a Pre-Test prior to the start of a new unit. By assessing individual learner development before the instruction began, I was able to identify gaps in knowledge and set learning goals for my students. I used the same assessment as a Post-Test after the unit, which allowed me to record student growth and measure development.
I further implement this professional standard into my teaching through the Photo Composition assignment. For this assignment, I wanted to share my love of photography in a way that was relevant to Transcendentalist ideas. It is inspired by Henry David Throeau’s quote “It’s not about what you look at, it’s about what you see.” Students were tasked with taking a photo of something in nature that spoke to them while using a photography composition technique. I have been compiling student photographs and responses on an Instagram account I created called @RWEmersonOutdoors.
For more information about my perspective on this professional standard, please see my reflections on assessment.