Thursday, November 15, 2012

Phase II: Assessment of Learning


    • My assessment was done through having students create and solve division problems. These problems tell me what students understand as being division. I would need to support the last student since they created a subtraction problem as division. This gives me clear data to look at when trying to find student understanding. Students did very well for the most part. I would have liked to get more of these examples. More time would have been good.

      My reflection indicates this success. I thought the lesson went very well. The lesson itself could have taken more time with students first learning this material, but given my audience, I scaffolded where needed. In implementing this in a third grade classroom, I would plan for more time, more support, and overall MORE TIME. Introducing a concept may take the half hour, but the work I asked for after (creating problems) would take more than the allotted time.

      Classmate feedback was also overall positive for my engagement of students (having them all participate and having them look at other student examples) and creating a safe environment. Some constructive feedback called for more individual time with students, more wait time, and more time explaining how to use the SMART board. Overall, more time, which reflects some of my concerns with time I stated previously. This lesson would probably be best for a bit longer time period such as 45 minutes.

1 comment:

  1. I wish that we had more time for the lessons in this class too. One of the things that you have probable already noticed in the classroom is that time is not always controllable. Interruptions are common in the classroom. The goal is to be prepared for the time you think you will have, but adjust as needed.

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