Your reflection should include:
- Describe a method of understanding prior-knowledge of students.
2. Discuss the importance of establishing anchors for a project.
By recognizing prior knowledge and establishing these anchors for the project, the progress and distance the students will need to travel through their learning process in order to meet the learning goals and objectives you set for the project. By learning where the students are with the content already, differentiated instruction can be set up to help all learners be successful.
3. Describe several ways to assess what students learned during the project.
Rubrics should be set in place for assessment so that students become aware of your expectations of their learning progress. Providing feedback and opportunities to grade on areas other than content mastery, allows students to become well rounded in other areas of being a student. Both traditional tests and non traditional activities to assess content mastery are also ways that we as educators can assess our students and what they learned during the project.
We can also use class discussions to assess content that the students are learning. Are they using the vocabulary correctly? Are they staying on task? Formative assessments are great tools for teachers to use for assessment.
4. Discussion on how concepts in this chapter relate to your topic/project
Being aware of my students previous knowledge will be a component that we will address within our project by either doing a KWL chart or possibly having them write everything they can think about a specific topic, or even give them a traditional pre-test. Gathering this information allows us to provide instruction that will benefit all students and include other strategies that will become effective in our teaching practices.
We will also use several different types of assessment include formative and summative assessments in various forms throughout the project. Walking around and taking notes on conversation and assessing group or individual progress with their project are two ways formative assessment will be used. A final project and other materials can also be used for the summative assessments.
You're comments on having anchors for different students was really good. By accepting them where they are at and what they already know, we can better see how far they have progressed individually instead of grading everyone on the same standard.
ReplyDeleteI also discussed the use of KWL's and how important they are to the continual learning of children. You can also use them throughout the year and give one at the beginning of the year and/or each lesson and then again at the end of the year and/or each lesson. Anchors are really important as well because you need to start their learning off of a strong base. Anchors and activating prior knowledge walk hand in hand; you can't put an anchor in place without knowing what the children already know. I didn't think about using rubrics as part of assessments. That's a great idea because when students know what the expectations are they can succeed more within their projects.
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DeleteI like KWL charts as well. You're able to track the students prior knowledge, self-interest of what the want to learn, and then you're able to see a glimpse of there progress through what they learned throughout their journey.
ReplyDeleteI am doing my reflection like thuis now because it helps to understand the chapter better.
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