Blog #5 Peer Assessing

How did it feel to create a quiz, to create a crossword, and to consider how you were assessing their learning and abilities? What would you do differently now, if you could? Why peer assess (creating and implementing)? Answer each question!

Now that you have done a couple of different types of assessments, weigh in on why formative assessment is better than summative (good time to google if you're not sure of the difference). Note that formative assessment is generally created with student learning in mind and summative assessments are written with teachers and grades in mind. Blog by

Blog #6 Chapter 5 Teaching Students with Learning Disabilities

   Read/skim Ch. 5 (Teaching Students with Learning Disabilities) in the text. Write a paragraph or two about how the material can/should help you with this unit. Blog by Wed. June 22nd and respond by Friday.

Blog #4: Position Paper Topics

Here are what you all have sent me as your potential topics:


Kimber: bilingual vs ELL classrooms

Solomon: 4 day school week

Kaitlin: looping

Madilynn:

Make your arguments for why you want the topic you've chosen...what motivated you to pick it? What do you already know about it? Why do you think it is worth researching and writing about? Post by Wednesday June 15 at midnight and respond by Friday, June 17th.

Blog #3 Assessing and Evaluating in Learning Different Environments

You have now applied various types of learning and teaching:

• Creating learning strategies activities
• Blogging
• Assessing
• Evaluating one another 

Now that you are really delving into evaluating and assessing activities and one another, consider how you will accommodate peer evaluation in your classroom. How will or did activities like learning strategies, blogging, peer- and self-assessing open your eyes to how differently we all learn and interact with the concept of learning? (If we were in a face-to-face class, you all would also be jigsawing, whiteboarding, etc.) How important is it to let students play a role in assessment (whether peer assessing, creating their own learning strategy activities, or even writing their own quizzes)? 
Blog by Sunday night June 12, and respond to your classmates by Tuesday, June 14th.