Reflection #9

1. There are multiple ways of understanding students prior knowledge. One way is a KWL chart this can be useful for teachers to learn what students already know, they can also use the "want to know" column to adjust their lesson plan to the students interests. You can also take the boring way and give them a pre-quiz. These are useless to me but many people use them. You can figure out what students already know about a subject, these are not graded and students tend to blow them off since they wont be getting graded. Another thing you can do is have a discussion about an upcoming project. A discussion can sometimes get off topic but students enjoy talking. 2. By establishing anchors you gain a sense of where student are starting and how far they are going. In a project based classroom you expat the opportunities to differentiate instruction and help learners become successful. 3. Ways students can be assessed: - Using rubrics helps students stay on task and focused. - A teacher points out that having children lose points for being late is inappropriate. You lose a lot of meaningful data because you marked them down for being late. - Having deep conversations with students lets you know if they know what they are talking about. -Giving tests, this is self explanatory. 4. For our storyboard we have to discuss a way that students can be assessed for this project. This chapter gives us multiple ways that we can assess students. If let us know that we don't have to go to the standardized testing that multiple teachers use. We can think outside the box and come up with unique ways to assess students.