#9 Reflection

All students work at different paces, but most certainly they never start at the same place, but establishing anchors will give the teacher a sense of where the students are starting at and how far they will go to meet their learning goals.  By having your students express their learning journey of the topic you will better understand their prior knowledge and what they have learned.  There are multiple ways to assess what your students learned during a project, by having them reflect on it can show you and other learners how and what the student learned.  Another way to assess your students’ knowledge is to have them summarize in some way at the end of a project.  The example in the textbook is to write a book.  A very interested and exciting way to assess would be to apply what they have learned to real life professionals who can evaluate them.  Lastly, by encouraging your students to enter a contest or submit for publication would be very exciting to a student.  I think it’s a unique and fun way to assess, and who knows they may win something.  All in all these ways of assessing what your students learned are good ideas.  This chapter of the text can relate to my topic of staying healthy for an elementary grade classroom is that instead of assessing the student just by a test or paper, I have them doing a big project, in one of my lessons I created, in which they also talk to real life professionals and once done can apply it to their lives as well.