TPE B

Learning to Love Assessment. How does one relate assessments with classroom management and classroom structure? Tomlinson stated, "my sense of the wisdom of using assessment to accentuate student positives rather than negatives" is an important concept. Do we negate the negative or affirm the positive? Or how can their be balance between these opposites? Not that a teacher doesn't want to challenge the weakness students may have, but how do the strengths grow to begin to alter the balance so the dimensions of weakness are challenged from within as apposed to without. So as the teacher reaffirms the positive, through consistent assessments, it becomes a non-orthodox form of challenging the negative.
Tomlinson said, "The best teaching is never so much about me as about us" stuck out as something of importance. Understanding the classroom as a unified body, and attempting to advance the totality of the classroom is key to community based learning, as apposed to teaching in a framework of broken down individual pieces.