Week 5

Overview: 

It is important to set up learning objectives so that it is easy to see what students should be able to do at the end of a lesson as a result of what they learned. Learning objectives should be student-centered, actionable, and measurable. 

The ABCD objective formula helps identify what the students will be able to do as a result of the instruction, and gives a clear picture of the instruction and how the students success is determined. 

ABCD Formula:

-Audience: who

-Behavior: what students are able to do 

-Conditions: resources and limitations 

-Degree: level or criteria 

Ms. Lauren's Presentation: 

It was interesting to see the different types of report cards and how different types of assessments can be used to assess kids. It was nice to see real life examples of the topics we are talking about in class. I also feel that I have a much better understanding of the different types of assessments. She also talked about how she works with preservice teachers like us to help them prepare to be the best teachers that they can be so that students can get the best education they deserve. 

Week 4

What is Bloom's Taxonomy?

Bloom's Taxonomy is a hierarchical ordering of cognitive skills that more from simple to more complex up the pyramid. Students become more knowledgable as they move through the different levels. This can also be helpful when writing lesson plans so that students can work on each level, and eventually be able to do them all automatically. There are also 6 levels to this pyramid which differs from DOK that only has 4 different levels. 

Levels of Bloom's Taxonomy (6 being the highest level and 1 being the lowest)

1. Remember

2. Understand

3. Apply

4. Analyze

5. Evaluate

6. Create

What is Webb's Depth of Knowledge?

DOK is a building process in which each step requires more thinking as you progress. It will also determine the level of rigor that is being used. It is different from Bloom's Taxonomy due to the fact that you don't have to move in any certain order. The students also doesn't have to a master a skill to move onto the next one. 

Levels of DOK

1. Recall and Reproduction

2. Skills and Concepts

3. Strategic Thinking

4. Extended Thinking

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Future Use

Both of these will be beneficial to me because it will give me a place to start when lesson planning. I could also introduce both ideas to my students so they can see themselves work up the scale to see how much they learned. 

Week 3

What I learned about documentation:

I learned that documentation can be useful when it comes to seeing how a child is developing. If there is a running record of what the child can and can't do, it makes it easier to see the child's progress. This also gives a place for the parents to see how their child is doing. This can be done in a portfolio or a documentation panel. 

Differences between Reggio Emilia and Project Style:

In the Reggio Emilia type documentation, students work is shown creatively, but is scored or graded formatively. This also gives the students more creative freedom because they are encouraged to do so in a way that makes sense to them. The Reggio Emilia approach is a formative approach to documentation. In schools today, they use a more conventional and summative approach to fit the molds of curriculum. For project style documentation, it differs in the fact that the presentation is done creatively. 

How I can better my students:

I can better my students by incorporating different types of documentation into my classroom, and recognize that sometimes things don't always go to plan. I would talk to the students and get a feel for what they are wanting to get out of their own learning and base the documentation around that. 

Week 2

Overview

This week we learned about the different types of assessment used to assess children. I had never had to create a rubric, so this was a good experience for me. It was a little difficult trying to come up with the rubric, but with more practice I feel it will become a lot easier. Rubrics and assessment are a good way for kids to see how they will be graded. It also gives them the breakdown of the points and how they will be scored. When trying to come up with the grading scale on a project I wasn't familiar with was a challenging. It was easier to see the top tier work and bottom tier and know how I wanted the grading scale to be. Basing it off of what I thought I wanted to see was challenging, but once I saw the criteria, I knew how I wanted to create the grading scale. I also found that what one person deems a 5 and what another deems a 5 can be two different outcomes. 

Terms:

Holistic: consists of a single scale with all criteria to be included in the evaluation being considered together

Analytic: Allows you to assess participants' achievements based on multiple criteria using a single rubric

Single Point Rubrics: outlines the standards a student has to meet to complete the assignment

Difficulties

When developing an analytic rubric, it was difficult to make sure that each point value needed to incorporate a lot. For a holistic rubric, it is easier to make categories for each section that needs to be graded upon. 

Week 1

 Overview

This week in class, I have learned about the different types of assessment, how to show a students metacognition. and how powerful documentation can be. The documentation article is one that I found very interesting. When I worked in a daycare, we had an app that we used to keep track of what the kids did that day. It could have been that day's craft, how many times they used the bathroom, how much of their lunch they ate, and many other things. This allowed the parents to check in on their kids throughout the day and see how they were doing. 

Terms and Definitions

-Metacognition: how a child thinks about their own thinking

-Rubric: a way of scoring that assess certain areas for an assignment or project

-Checklist: an assessment tool that has set specific criteria, used to track development

-Rating scale: set categories designed to meet a certain expectation

Future

In my classroom, I would like to be able to incorporate all the different types of assessments. I would like the students to do a self-check and evaluate their work themselves. They would turn it into me, and I would grade the assignment. I would like to see if they take their time to catch their mistakes, or if they rush to get done. 

-Checklists: If I was doing a small project with my kids, I would allow them to have a little bit of creative control. I would write the checklist with them, and incorporate some of their ideas.

-Rating Scales: For a rating scale that is interactive for the kids would be a clip up clip down chart. This is an easy, non-point based system so the kids can check where they fall during the day.

-Rubrics: As a student, rubrics have been very helpful when completing assignment, and it allows the kids to see what they are being graded on. It would also give more in depth expectations for each point value.