This weekend I
completed three of my lesson plans….which necessitated creating four
handout/worksheets to go with them. I
feel pretty good about the lessons in general.
However, I am sure I will have to do some revision of particular
parts. I am running into a little
difficulty with writing assessments for my day-to-day lessons. A lot of my smaller activities in the unit
are functioning as formative assessment for the major assignments, so I’m
finding it difficult to assess each day by itself. For instance, in the last lesson I created
today the students complete an outline for a paper they are starting, but I
want them to keep this outline and continue working on it obviously for the
paper. I guess I feel like assessing
each day’s work should be secondary to building/scaffolding for the other
assignments.
One other
difficulty I am having with my lesson writing, and it is related to the first,
is including standards. I decided to try
and include CC standards on each lesson and with my final project rubric. For these three lessons I found it troublesome
to find standards that match up to what I am assessing(or lack of
assessment) and my objectives. I guess
it is very unlikely to happen upon a standard that exactly expresses what I
want for each lesson(wouldn’t that be nice), so I find I have to assume a very
loose interpretation of what the standard says to make it match my lesson.
Kelsey,
ReplyDeleteI just saw Aly this weekend, a second-year teacher who'll be in class on Wednesday to talk shop. I asked her about how she uses CCSS, and she said she fits the standards in (versus working to shape the lesson around them). It'd be great to bring this question about "loose interpretation" to class this week, and pose it to the panel!
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