Chapters 7 & 8 "Preparing Teachers for a Changing World", Darling-Hammond & Bransford (Eds.). (2005)
Discussion Notes
Meta-Cognitive Assessment
Self-reflection: Very difficult for the students to do; they don't know how to give themselves criticisms before their instructor assesses them.
Videotape the students to critique their teaching.
SWIVL videotaping - camera follows them around the classroom, can be a real time feed that can be used as teaching moments
Formative Assessment
Exit Tickets - Hector uses exit tickets before recess to assess himself as a teacher and for his kids; Daniel added he has his students write at the end of the day - what did you like, learned, wished
Living Timelines
RAFTS
Menus
Cubing
Choice Boards
Think Tac Toe
See Saw - social media platform, a community builder, real time learning, Facebook for parents, real time feedback/assessment for their students, students' digital portfolio that parents can ask, videos, pictures, journals, parent can give feedback on students work, teachers post the work, parents and students can comment on, teacher is moderator of the site
"Focused efforts to improve formative assessment produced learning gains greater than on-half standard deviation, which would be .... (p.277)
Is transparent
Based on backward design
Scaffolds along ZPD's
Flexible
Double entry journal - Passage from the text, Connections I made (t-chart)
Summary star - 1) word for a title 2) words how it made you feel, 3-5, they have to complete each point of the star to know that they completed a task
Response Sheet: Summary and opinion, prediction, vocabulary that they don't know - from a particular reading - date, time, chapters or pages
KWL(S) + What I Still need to find out - this tells you where to go as a teacher
Mind Map - Students draw pictures or copy out of a magazine and make a mind map
Two stars and a wish - students pair up read the work of their partner, identify two things the author did, and one think they wish the author would have done
Individual whiteboards - students write questions, comments, hold up their boards and teachers have a temperature barometer
Kinesthetic assessment - form a circle, teacher ask a question, if students agree they step into the circle they agree, if they disagree they step outside the group, they talk to each other, form two lines and express their opinions one at a time
Living Wall - Graphic on butcher paper that class adds on to for processing and transfer of learning
Google Docs - Turn essays into ongoing documents, do instruction, begin essay, as the weeks of instruction go on, they can go back and work on it, teacher highlights areas that they need to work on, each week they focus on one concept at a time (like this week is commas, and that's the only thing that the teacher and students focus on), other students can see everyone else's work, and that works well as a model and what the end project should look like
Zone of proximal development - Assessing individuals
Classroom Management
Develop Learning Community
Plan for errors - take responsibility of your errors,
Vision - What can I actually get done in a classroom period, what is working, what is not working, make modifications
Flipped Classroom - a good classroom management tool, then focus on what the student problems are during class, makes teaching and learning more flexible
Zone of Proximal Development - partnering considerations (religious, language, ability, etc.)
Socratic Discussions: 1) first five minutes - current events; 2) 10 minutes - group work (digest readings from homework); 3) 5 minutes - whiteboard (come up to the board and give me your ideas, tell them to give you one word or one theme; 4) 25 minute - discussion of group discussions; 5) 5 minute recap (what did we learn). Elaborate the group discussions on the whiteboard to assess what the students captured, what they didn't get, assess your teaching and how you can make it better. Connect two readings about social justice in some ways. Assess with quizzes, tests, group project (picking one topic about issue you are studying) - you have two months to do the project. Then you have to write a paper about your topic.
Icebreaker: Gesture Name Game - Build community by getting to know names, being silly together, laughing, having fun, moving around - a chain game to use at the beginning of the semester.
Icebreaker: Picture bubbles - All About Me! - Draw three pictures about themselves. Share with a partner and then the partner shares with the group.
Icebreaker: About my Partner: Questions to answer that guess about your partner and you can guess silly things about their partner
Teacher monitors and participates in the icebreakers.
Needs assessment to learn about students: How do you learn best? What do you hope to learn? Is there anything that you'd like me to know about you?
Open classroom setting, moveable chairs
Backward Design
Environmental Plan Project - Learning happens throughout the course, students choose an environmental project that will improve the safety of the school, it is authentic learning, this is a class initiative, collaborative learning, they have a guideline of how the project has to be completed, students must provide evidence of the project at each step, they have to fundraise, a community based project, problem based learning
Community-Centered
Experiential, place based curriculum, inquiry-based, interesting and interactive, inquiry-based, spatial thinking, students come up with research question/hypothesis, take them out into the community, and let them explore their question - Vygotsky and Community-centeredness + technology, use google maps to tell your story, take pictures, record things, work in groups, participatory, present to the group about what the research question was about, get feedback from stakeholders (community members), write up daily reflections and feedback into their journal, they start to have a voice/agency, and are aware of issues that come up in the community. Eight hour of instruction project.
