http://www.byrdseed.com/do-your-assessments-reflect-your-teaching/ Fri, 13 Jan 2012 05:51:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://www.byrdseed.com/do-your-assessments-reflect-your-teaching/comment-page-1/#comment-208 Ian Byrd Wed, 21 Apr 2010 06:47:57 +0000 http://www.byrdseed.com/?p=216#comment-208 <p>Awesome ideas! Asking for rankings and justification is a great way to understand students' thinking.</p> Awesome ideas! Asking for rankings and justification is a great way to understand students' thinking.

]]> http://www.byrdseed.com/do-your-assessments-reflect-your-teaching/comment-page-1/#comment-167 Ian Byrd Wed, 21 Apr 2010 02:47:57 +0000 http://www.byrdseed.com/?p=216#comment-167 <p>Awesome ideas! Asking for rankings and justification is a great way to understand students' thinking.</p> Awesome ideas! Asking for rankings and justification is a great way to understand students' thinking.

]]> http://www.byrdseed.com/do-your-assessments-reflect-your-teaching/comment-page-1/#comment-165 suzannecunningham Tue, 20 Apr 2010 16:02:10 +0000 http://www.byrdseed.com/?p=216#comment-165 <p>These are great assessment ideas! In my 9th grade English GT classes, I've included for many years the ideas you've mentioned regarding judging with criteria and prioritizing. We'll take several chapters of a novel and the students will create a "Top 5 List" of the most important revelations, actions, or ideas within the chapters, supporting their choices with "why" and then ranking those choices with #1 being the most influential idea/occurrence. Students are examining points of literary analysis, then evaluating those points in connection to the novel's development through text evidence - perhaps making predictions about future influences using literary techniques the author has included (foreshadowing, symbolism, etc.), and then they are making a small assertion and defending it (why their choice of #1 is valid), which is critical thinking and an AP writing skill. The answers reveal the thinking processes as well as the skills, and are therefore interesting to read/grade/discuss. Keep sending us these great ideas for affirming the higher level thinking of GT learners!</p> These are great assessment ideas! In my 9th grade English GT classes, I've included for many years the ideas you've mentioned regarding judging with criteria and prioritizing. We'll take several chapters of a novel and the students will create a “Top 5 List” of the most important revelations, actions, or ideas within the chapters, supporting their choices with “why” and then ranking those choices with #1 being the most influential idea/occurrence. Students are examining points of literary analysis, then evaluating those points in connection to the novel's development through text evidence – perhaps making predictions about future influences using literary techniques the author has included (foreshadowing, symbolism, etc.), and then they are making a small assertion and defending it (why their choice of #1 is valid), which is critical thinking and an AP writing skill. The answers reveal the thinking processes as well as the skills, and are therefore interesting to read/grade/discuss. Keep sending us these great ideas for affirming the higher level thinking of GT learners!

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