1. There are many ways to asses the prior knowledge of your students. Its important to know where each student is coming from so that as a teacher you can see how far they have come/need to go to reach their goal. A way to do this is to establish anchors, to see where students are.
2. As mentioned previously the anchors that should be used to know where your students started at so they and you can see how far they have come. They are important because when it is established the students know how far they have come and it is easier to set up differentiated instruction.
3. There are many ways to see what students have learned over the course of the project. One of the ways is by have them create something new which makes them summarize what they learned. This way the learning process extends. Another way would be to have students "publish" the project and show it to the class to teach them.
4. This chapter relates to our project because we don't want our students to drop the project once it is done. Also, it is crucial to know how much information our students knew coming into the project to see if it was a success in them learning what they were supposed to learn.
Jennifer,
ReplyDeleteI like your point regarding how students should create something new to help them summarize with what they learned. I agree, by doing this students will learn to be reflective learners. This enables students to think outside the box.
Allison Burt
I think it's important for students to also see where they are and where they're going.
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ReplyDeleteYou make an important point about knowing what your students know before starting a project so you can have an idea of how effective and successful the project is. Also, its important to make the project stick with the student long term. Making a project that utalizes 21st century skills and be effective is a successful project.
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