Joanna McCane
EDU: 645
Week 3
Thought Process and Rational
Behind week 3 BLOG
When creating my testing items and essay for the week three assignment, I was initially lost. This was my first time being asked to upload assignments to Blogs, Glogs, or any other website. Therefore, I called myself starting off with something a tad bit more familiar for me. I am in school for counseling and have never thought about all the things a teachers job entails; although, now I would never look at it lightly again. Now, that we have cleared the air let me explain my thought and rational behind my created test items and outcomes.
I started this lesson by creating outcomes for various assignments for various grade levels. My first objective was to provide an outcome and test items for students beginning the first grade and having to recognize the alphabet. I felt like I would begin by introducing my student to the alphabet with an illustrated alphabet chart. Then, after a period of time I would test their knowledge by providing them with classroom assignments to help them to retain, recall, and write out the alphabets in various forms like: capital letters, lower case letters, word, and sentence format. Lastly, I would provide a matching test; which will allow the student to match the letters in column A with the words provided in column B.
The next lessons, objective was to demonstrate my students knowledge of shapes taught the prior year of school. I would be able to recognize which students were secure with knowing the shapes and which one’s still needed help. I thought that providing them with worksheets and having them to draw each shape will help them to apply what they are learning in a hands-on, cognitive observational learning process. Upon completion of unit, I would incorporate a true false test. The student would have to apply a T or F on the space provided indicating if the statement about the shape is true or false, with 90% accuracy.
The purpose of my third outcome is to teach my third grade class weekly spelling words and test their comprehension of them. The student would be provided with class and homework assignments like: writing words 5x each and using words in a sentence to observe how they recall, and rewrite them according to their own understanding. My projected outcome is for each student to pass a weekly spelling test with an 85% retained accuracy. I would test their knowledge by supplying a multiple choice spelling test as well as an essay in which students will have to provide a paragraph that includes so many of the spelling words in story format. The overall rational is intended to illuminate classroom activities and assessments in an approach that is reliable with modern cognitive theories of learning and instruction. Examples of my outcomes and testing items can be found on my Blog @
No comments:
Post a Comment