Monday, April 4, 2011
Thoughts on Assessment for the Unit Plan
Looking at the outline from last weeks blog post I cannot help but mention how broad it is. I began to look at assessment today and narrow down what I want to be teaching. Looking at the book that I wan to teach and the standards - 8.4.3.3 in the Minnesota 8th grade language arts standards would work really well. The standard talks about how scenes from the book or lines of dialogue can be analyzed to learn more about the characters and how they effect the decisions made within the book. The characters are so strong in this book (Looking for Alaska by John Green) that they would prove a great area of study and lend well to the overall theme of the unit being Identity. The other standards that I may include would be 8.7.10.10 which has to do with writing on a regular basis - I may use this in the form of a journal that the students could later use to help with their final project. For the final project I want to include multimedia so some of those standards will be used as well - possibly 8.9.8.8. The final project will have them look at themselves and how they see themselves. They will create some type of multimedia project and present it in some form to the class. They will have some choice in what this project will look like though. Knowing I want to do this assignment - I will have the students work on pieces of this during their journal entries and in class discussion and small group discussions. I will continue to look at this book and make sure that this is what I want to be teaching but so far so good!
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I think you're on the right track here with your assessments! I'm always a huge fan of any kind of journal entries or writing letters, so I really like the idea of incorporating their final project with pieces of their journal and tying that into class discussion. I guess the only thing I have questions on is how you would assess their journals?
ReplyDeleteI like how this is evolving. I think the initial assessment concept is solid, although do not feel like you have to make the final assessment multimedia unless it really makes sense in conjunction with the other standards that are the focus. As to journals--I love the idea. I would recommend that the prompts are a blend of personal reflection topics and textual analysis topics to that they can support both standards are formative assessments. Let me know if that makes sense to you, or if you have any questions as you move forward.
ReplyDeleteI think the incorporation of a journal could be very helpful when synthesizing a final summative assessment in the case of identity ownership. They should be allowed to cite evidence from their journal to draw conclusions or ideas in their multimedia final. Sounds like a great plan!
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