Reading Reflection #9

    Establish anchors with the students to understand prior-knowledge of topics. Like the book talked about before, a great activity is K-W-L. This activity will help to get a better understanding of your students prior understanding. Keep in mind all students wont be at the same place or have all the same prior-knowledge so this might be a great time for a mini-lesson.


    This goes along great with the topic of understanding prior-knowledge and pretty much goes hand and hand with it. By establishing "anchors", you gain a sense of where students are starting and how far they are going as they work to meeting learning goals. When considering assessment, think about the quality of the learning experience.


    A great way to assess students is a rubric, this way they can see what the learning goals are even before the project starts and what they need to have learned and/or completed. Maybe stay away from traditional tests and give more informal that assess the analysis or real reading. Asking students what they have learned is always an idea or have them test their project in the real world. Trying something new to grade students is always a great idea and will truly test if they have really learned anything or not.


   Ideas and concepts such as new ways to grade is great when ending a project and trying to find out how much a students has really learn. Instead of just taking a boring test. As well understanding prior-knowledge is very important because you need to know where the class is with these ideas and topics to make sure they understand what is going on, if not take the time and help teach what they are unsure of before moving on.