Variety of Assessments

The culturally competent teacher should be able to use a variety of assessment techniques appropriate to diverse learners and accommodate socio-cultural differences that affect learning.
How might the teacher be responsive to the linguistic, ethnic, and socio-cultural characteristics of the students in his or her assessment practices?
I happened to notice on the three visits so far into my classroom the different tools the teacher in the classroom teaches reading and writing. (I have actually only been in the classroom when she teaches reading and writing, I think she teaches this every morning) There are many students in the classroom who are lacking in there fluency with text, meaning the effortless to read sentences and comprehend them. She often begins the morning having students read silently in their reading street books.  After everyone is settled in she calls students to the rug to go over vocabulary that are actually in the story that they just read in the reading street book. Students then usually have to create sentences using those vocab words.  During this time the teacher will write a list of things the students need to work on and complete for the next two hours.

While students are completing the list she will have students come over and work with her on reading.  They are usally doing some app on the teachers Ipad that is related to the working on their fluency skills.  Another way students can increase their skills in reading and writing is a game that is installed on the school computers. During this time, the teacher has me work with specific students repeating different words or sentences to increase their fluency in the words.  I believe that a possible reason why students in the classroom are lacking in reading outloud skills is because they speak a different language at home.  I noticed that the teacher does take this into account and make sure students who are struggling try to find time to give them extra help and teach them in different ways so students can grasp the material better.  There is only one teacher in the classroom, and many students who need extra help.  The teacher in this second grade classroom definitly works very hard to try and get as much one-on-one time with students who need extra help.