Thursday, February 14, 2013

Class 4

Lessons Learned:

Today’s class discussion made me think more about formal and informal assessments and how I could use them in my class. The formal assessments of test taking and having students create projects are a valuable way to reach the children but what about informal assessments? I was taught a strategy by a professor of simply putting a thumb up to ask a student discretely if they are okay or if they are understanding a lesson. They can do this discretely and it can be a personal ting between the professor and student.

The topic for my video I am thinking about presenting is revolving around the short book Star Girl. The book has themes of individuality, and the awkwardness of being a child and how it is not revered as children but admired by adults. This ties into another class so it would be easy to continue from that small project to something like this. 

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