Reflection #9

1. Description of a method of understanding prior knowledge of students:
Before beginning a project it is best to know what your students already know about the topic. A good way to do this is to have your students fill out a KWL chart or other graphic organizers that may go along with the project or topic. These methods will help you as a teacher to determine what students already understand.


2.  Discussion on the importance of establishing anchors for a project:
By establishing what your students know and don't know before you begin will determine how far your students come along in meeting their learning goals. If you don't know what your students already know, you won't know if they learned anything in the end.


3. Description of several ways to assess what students learned during the project:
A big way to assess students would be to have them create something new. By this, I mean we could have our students create something that overall asks them to summarize and utilize what they learned in the project. Another way to assess them would be to ask the students what they learned. This will give us a straight forward answer of where they have come and what they learned overall. Another way would be having them demonstrate their understanding through real world assessment. By this I mean have your students give feedback through a profession. For example, having students have a debate or describing what they know through journalism.


4. Discussion on how concepts in this chapter relate to your project or topic:
This correlates well with our project because we need to know where our students stand on the basis of gardening. We need to know where to begin and what things we need to touch base on. This chapter demonstrates how we can measure our students progress toward the goal we plan to achieve.