Although I was not present for this week’s class I do have some thoughts I would like to share, first up is my pre-internship. During my pre-internship I learned a lot about how hard assessment really is. I think I succeeded in giving students a variety of assignments to show their learning (exit slips, role plays, research, visuals, and always leaving room for questions) but giving the actual grades was a lot more difficult. It was hard trying to identify…
To begin class we were assigned eight papers to grade, seven of our peers and our own. These papers were our professional dialogue papers where each of us conversed with two teachers about assessment. Having the experience to grade these papers was valuable as a student because we are able to finally practice assessment using rubrics and we were able to read the advice of fourteen other teachers. As a teacher, exercises like these would be valuable to make sure…
And we’re back after an extra week off! We began this class by checking in on how our break went and how we’re doing on our upcoming assignments for this class. My break wasn’t very restful but I was able to squeeze in some Modern Family. As for our assignments, I do have to add my own thoughts a bit more throughout the Dialogue Paper and I also have a pretty good idea for the expectations of the Assessment Demonstration thanks…
We began this class with our last Learning Circle discussion based on our class textbook, where we spent a lot of time talking about communicating with parents and connecting with colleagues about assessment. The link to our full discussion is here. Afterwards we did our usual poll.guru reflection. Next we discussed graphic organizers, which can be used for any class and grade. There were a myriad of graphic organizers mentioned in the video, but the ones I was most familiar…
We started class with our Learning Circle discussions (found here) where we talked about being aware of when we give feedback and how portfolios can be very useful. We then followed up with the usual poll.guru after heading back to the whole group. Next, we discussed our Assessment Plan Showcase assignment and watched a previous student’s video he made for this assignment. After viewing this example I feel much more confident in completing this assignment for this class. After a…
We began this class by finishing our rubric activity we started yesterday. In breakout rooms, we had to brainstorm responses that a fifth grade student would have said about our geometry question. Then we had to organize those responses into three categories: math terms, descriptions, and measurements. The third step had us creating the “adequate” column of a rubric and rated the sample answer to our rubric. This step left me very confused because the criteria was from various outcomes,…
This class again started with our Learning Circle discussion about chapters three and four (click here for discussion summary). The main points we discussed was the importance of including parents and providing samples and examples. As a student, I always appreciate(d) when samples are given because then I know what to work towards to achieve student success. I know what layout the teacher likes and about how long to make the questions, and I always found it much more useful…
We started off the class with our Learning Circles talking about the first two chapters of our text (click here for discussion summary), the main thing we talked about was including students in the assessment process at the correct times to ensure maximum student success. As a student, I didn’t really care about being involved in the rubric making process maybe because I felt I would perform well either way. It was more common to receive a copy of the…
This first class began with a survey on poll.guru, we learned a little about our fellow “staff” and I found it interesting to note that most people enrolled in this class would like to teach Grades 1-5 or 10-12, I fall into the middle years area. We had a brief interruption by an academic advisor who told us about some upcoming deadlines and events for education students. We then had time to complete an assessment of assessment, where we shared…