I believe that assessment is not only for evaluation purposes; assessment is the key to effective lesson planning. A teacher may teach the same grade, and same lessons for years, but will never teach every lesson quite the same. The reason why the same teacher would teach a lesson taught year after year differently is because of the students. All students are individuals, and so, all students will learn differently, and all classrooms will have a different set of acquired knowledge. Thus, a teacher needs to know his/her classroom before teaching a single lesson in order to know how to teach the students in a way that will engage the entire class.

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I believe that all students should be given the chance to rethink their assignment/answers over after it has been evaluated. That is why my classroom will have flexible assessments: students will get a second (and sometimes, even a third) chance to review their answer on a test once it has been corrected. During writing assignments, students will be given feedback with the chance to improve on his/her assignment. Progress would be documented using a checklist like the one above. Using flexible assessments takes away some pressure that some students might feel when it comes to being evaluated.