In order to accurately understand if a student has understood the concept, authentic assessment is key in understanding if students are able to take the skill and apply it to a real world context. Sometimes just giving out a test isn't enough. There are a lot of students who have test anxiety and their best work isn't captured in a unit test. Students...
Week 10: Data Management and Probability As we are quickly approaching the end of our first semester in teachers college, I'm realizing how much needs to get done before our two week internship in December. We are all starting to see the finish line with a much needed break! Retrieved from Giphy We focused on two chapters this week which focused on data...
Would you rather have a noisy class of opinionated students or a quiet one where you know they want to speak but you cant get anything out of them? I have been the quiet student afraid to give out my answer or state my opinion, but I realize now becoming a teacher that we need to get the oral communication in our classroom...
How has Growing Success impacted my beliefs about assessment? I cannot relate completely to the Kindergarten Growing Success Addendum. Being in the J/I program it is my hope to teach the junior/ intermediate grades however there is some important information that all teachers can take away from reading the document. The Kindergarten Addendum focuses on a play based inquiry design program since young...
This week was an online class where we talked about Measurement! Out of all the strands, measurement was always the least stressful for me. I enjoyed it the most because I could visualize using this concept most in real life and the activities my teachers presented with their lessons were very kinesthetic. Retrieved from Flickr For our setting the stage activity, she gave...
Okay so there's not really this big huge equation that I'm going to give you to solve mystery of why children think writing is boring and a waste of their time. I'm not going to lie; I didn't enjoy writing when I was given a subject/topic on something I had no interest in. As I was trying to find a resource to develop...
This week we focused on Geometry and Spatial Sense which translates into representing 2D and 3D shapes and looking at the relationships between points, lines and surfaces. This strand always confused me. When it comes to this strand I am a kinesthetic learner and I would always prefer to hold the 3D shapes in my hand to look at and learn from rather...
I am finding that the trend of reading for fun is slowly dying. As a child I loved to read and would sometimes go through 2 books a week. As I get older I don’t have much time to sit down and enjoy a book during the school months so I save all the books I want to read for the summer when...
