Assessment Sample

Click to watch a sample assessment to close out the unit Objects in the Night Sky! Once students have made predictions in their journal and completed an observation log, they will present their findings in an animation video using the website PowToon.com. See rubric below:

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Discussion Topic: Roblyer & Hughes (2019) discuss the gaming in the classroom. What benefits and challenges are associated with gaming in the classroom? Do you have any strategies that you use to make gaming productive? When is gaming inappropriate in the instructional setting? Transcript: "Gaming in the classroom is, in my opinion, one of the best ways to facilitate student engagement. Games serve as an entertaining and motivational way to review material. Most of the time, a student cannot learn a new topic simply from playing a game, but once that topic is introduced, a game is an excellent way to practice and enhance that skill. While there are many independent online games available for students, tabletop games or whole-group class games facilitate collaboration and cooperation with peers. An article from the Missouri State Teachers Association says that, “games provide students with the opportunity to learn about teamwork and practice resolving conflicts or disagre...

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Discussion Topic: Roblyer & Hughes (2019) discuss the importance and use of data collection and analysis in Chapter 4. Address examples of how you collect data from your students and how you use that data. Have you taught your students how to collect and organize data? What methods worked well for you? Transcript: In our kindergarten classroom, we do not give any written tests, so data collection comes from a lot of one-on-one conferencing, verbal assessment, and observation. Our reading program comes with a virtual data collecting site where we constantly track our students’ data and progress in real time. Any time I read with a student or work on one of their goals, I enter it as evidence in the program and I am able to use that evidence to see what that specific student needs to work on next. My students know that I bring my laptop as I read with them, and we review the evidence I am collecting, as well as their next goal. While it took time to acclimate to collecting ...

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