Throughout my years of education, I have a cultivated a strong dislike for timed events and tests. My anxiety levels usually get so high that I blank out, I would start crying and nothing would be accomplished. Throughout my student teaching experience, I would like to be able to give exams and quizzes as assessments, but I would like to look at other ways to measure growth in my students. This week's readings have really helped me with this.
Other than having an exam, have a project where the students are thinking at their highest level and create a rubric. A rubric is beneficial to both students and teachers through keeping expectations clear and concise, a pretty simple and straight forward way of grading and is beneficial to both group and individual student assessment.
One thing that I really enjoyed and took away from this that I plan on doing is after I know my student for a little, I plan on having them create their own rubrics, with my assistance. This way, I know the students will be active in their learning and I can be sure to help direct them accordingly.
Something very similar to rubrics include concept maps. I have yet to create my own concept map, but I am in love with the idea of them because of how they can connect so many different ideas and situations together. This really can spark that student engagement and knowledge, which I am so excited to see for my students in the spring of next year!
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Evaluation of learning is a large concept that many people focus on. State officials want the hard numbers, so up until this point, it is very important to make sure you are on track with your teaching and your students 'get it' and are growing as much as they can. I look forward to using some of the different assessment techniques for the spring that I have read about this past week and as I continue to search for more questions and answers
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The notion of how to provide feedback to students on their progress that is meaningful and authentic without causing emotional distress is a BIG idea that I would love for you to continue to explore!
ReplyDeleteI'd love to hear how you implement the student-made rubric. I think that would be neat for students to do. I wonder if it would still be important for teachers to make their own so that each student is evaluated on the same scale? Perhaps student-made rubrics could be for evaluating students presentations. It wouldn't be used for the official presentation grade, but they could share their rubrics with their peers and talk about how they evaluated them and why. So making student-made rubrics low stakes.
ReplyDeleteI like your thoughts on concept maps. Having attended a high school that uses the "Learning Focused School" model and now student teaching at one, I see them used alot. I'm interested to see how students would create there own compared to the copy teachers go by.
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