Essential question: What
evidence am I collecting for my final project – and for what
purpose?
When I first started teaching
this unit I was not thing so much about evidence. So, I am going to have to get
kind of creative. I tried to take notes after each lesson, so hopefully that
will help. I took a screen shoot of a couple different book pages that L made
and the purpose of these is to have a visual representation of the work she did.
I also have the results of the pre and post test.
Something that I like about pre and post tests is that the teacher can really
see exactly what long term learning has happened. L got 50% of the questions
correct on the pre-test and 90% correct on the post-test. It is great to see what
lessons she really absorbed and what lessons we could have worked on a little
bit more. I also did a book rubric once the book was done, but she had very
little interest in it. At first, she liked the smiley faces, but it did not
seem like she cared what they represented. The purpose of the rubric was to help
L see what she needed to include in her book and it worked for that part. I would
reference it when she asked a question about what she needed to have in the
book the idea of it giving her feedback on how she did on the book was where it
was not as well received. In the future, I would like to make a rubric with the
class, so that everyone understands what is required and how they can do their
best work.
I think that evidence would have been more
abundant if I was teaching an entire class. In this instance, I only have one student
and no one to compare or contrast her work to. Hopefully I will
have enough evidence/data to write up a complete reflection.
I think notes are evidence. I rarely take them, but it’s good hard evidence of what occurred. I actually forgot that I need to have students do a self-reflection. I will have them do this early this week. Thanks for saying something about it! It’s a challenge to work with one child, but you did show growth! Nice job. Now we have to work on our reflection.
ReplyDeleteGood morning, I like your pre and post test. I wish I would have added this. I simply have the original creation and the final creation of a nursing care plan which is quite different and shows growth.
ReplyDeleteI think you're right in that pre and post tests offer a solid indication of growth and/or areas that need strengthening. I've used rubrics in the past, but from my experiences students don't pay much attention to them. I'm sure it's the age. No matter how I've introduced them or stressed how I use them, students rarely make the connection to the rubric, what they need to do, and how I will grade them.
ReplyDeleteI felt the same way! My biggest issue was figuring out how to document all that I have done. I have gathered the evidence but now I need to figure out how to show what the students have learned in a way that I can illustrate it. I should have been taking more pictures along the way. That would have been the easiest. However, I found myself so into my lesson that I was not going to take the time to take a picture. I am kicking myself now! It is so much easier with pictures. I knew better! I teach middle school students so rubrics tend to work for me. I feel like they help students to know what they are reaching for and help give them time to self reflect. They also make it so I stay focused with my learning targets, otherwise I tend to get off task.
ReplyDeleteI am happy yours went well. And good luck with your upcoming assignments.
I'm curious - do you give the exact same pre- and post-test or do you have questions based on certain objectives in each? In other words, do you have objectives you ask questions about and the questions change but the objectives do not?
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