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This week was really awesome in 350. Dr.Clark never fails to make class an eye opening and enriching learning experience while somehow making learning fun! I hope that my students feel that way about my classroom someday. We payed a simulation game called C'est La Vie. It was a game where were given a set profile and had to make life life decisions based on how much money we had, our health, and our living situations. A lot of things were pre-disposed and that made the game a lot more realistic. It put into perspective real life issues people who aren't born into families where they live in the best school district or struggle to make ends meet with money. The main point of the game was to make important decisions that affect your well being and future. Most of these decisions were not ones that could be controlled and that was pretty crazy to me. To win, you needed money and most of the kids in my class who did well in the game, were born with money, not having to earn it.
In my opinion this lesson connected to the NCTCS 1st standard where it says teachers demonstrate leadership. Teachers have to be aware of issues that students struggle with and make sure that their classroom offers fair opportunities for all students.It is a teachers job to advocate for all of his or her students and that is gong to be huge goal for me in my future classroom! Having a diverse classroom cna be such a beautiful thing when it is appreciated the right way.
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This week I really enjoyed the seminar we participated in led by Megan. I love hearing my classmates opinion on things because they will be the teachers I teach alongside with someday. To me, learning how they think about things is vitally important. We dissected two articles about the importances of assessment. One of my favorite quotes from the John Hattie article was, "Until we see tests as aids to enhance teaching and learning, and not primarily as barometers of how much a student knows now, on this day, on this test, then developing more tests will add little, and will remain an expensive distraction." It really puts the true meaning of assessing students into perspective. Linking assessment, instruction, and student learning is a really intricate practice and takes a lot of studying and practice to get right. It is something I want to be a top priority in my future classroom. This article talks more in depth about this topic and was good for my outside research. Classroom assessments do more than just measure learning. What we assess, HOW we assess, and how we communicate the results send a clear message to students about what is worth learning, how it should be learned, and how well we expect them to perform.
Wow, I love that quote. It is sums it up greatly. The whole point of formative assessments is to use the data from them to help students grow. If we are not looking at them and using this information to improve our lessons they are almost pointless. Yes they show if students understood it, but if we do not use that then it is not helping them at all.
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