Abby Harrop
EDT
Chapter 9
1.
There are many methods as teachers we can understand our students’ prior
knowledge but one it talks about in the book is to do a K-W-L. The K is what
they Know, the W is what they want to learn, and the L is what they have
learned at the end of the lesson.
2.
They call figuring out students’ knowledge “establishing anchors”. This allows
us to gain a sense of where students are at the beginning of the lesson and how
far they will grow and have to learn to meet their learning goals for each
topic.
3.
Knowing what students learned during the project is important and some ways to
do that are to have student feedback, have students create something new that
asks them to summarize or synthesize, allow for real-world experiences, such as
allowing experts to critique students work, have the students enter a contest,
or submit their own work for publication.
4.
This particular chapter relates to our project as if we were doing this we may
have students do a K-W-L chart or some other activity to figure out their prior
knowledge and figure out exactly how much they have to learn. It also helps us
to think of ways students might be able to assess the project that they create
through our lesson.
I agree that a KWL chart is a good idea to activate prior knowledge in students because we as teachers are able to see what they know, what they wants to know and what they have learned afterwards. Great post!
ReplyDeleteI love that you included what KWL actually stands for. And I agree anchors are important in gaining a sense of where students are.
ReplyDeleteI think your thoughts are very organized which makes your reflection easy to read. I'm glad that you were like I was and that the article helped with anchoring for students.
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