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The first document is the pre-test I gave to my class when we started our geometry and measurement unit. As we progressed through the unit the class took post tests. The first post test that was given was on volume. These test are used to show student growth and understanding not by scores, but by knowledge of material.
During my student teaching placement I spend most of my time at a school that used the GLAD program. In the use of this model teachers make an assortment of different strategies to help students learn. One of the strategies I used was a pictorial as seen in the first picture to the left. A pictorial is written out in pencil before hand and then as the pictorial is taught to students the teacher writes over the pencil with markers. Keeping a color coded system helps students to find information and refer back to the pictorial if need be. The pictorial is referred back to for writing prompts, citing evidence, and students will find and identify key phrases and topics on the pictorial. Another glad strategy that I used was a process grid (second picture to the left). A process grid lines up with my philosophy that students should be able to teach others to further their own learning. Tribes will send 1 member each to meet with the teacher. The students take notes in a mini lesson and become experts on a certain subject. After each member of the group has become an expert on their own subject they teach their group members what they learned. This allows the members to all receive the same information as well as giving students the valuable ability to teach a topic to other students. Each table will create their own process gird. Every table helps to create a class process grid that hangs in the room and can be used as a resource for students. |