Reflection #9

Description of a method of understanding prior-knowledge of students.
Relying on assessment strategies is a good way to understand prior knowledge. Knowing what kids understand about the project beforehand will then give a really good outline of what the teacher will need to know in order to create a lesson plan.

Discussion on the importance of establishing anchors for a project.
By establishing anchors, you gain a sense of where students are starting and how far they are  going as they work to meet learning goals. The distance they travel during a project will not be the same for each learner.

Description of several ways to assess what students learned during the project.
A really good example to see what students understand something is by having them read a book and then showing the movie, the students should then be able to tell you the differences between each and how the movie strayed from the book. You can ask the students to summarize what they have learned as well, in a paragraph or several paragraphs. Tests are always the choices of checking of learning after a unit or project, but sometimes tests aren't always the best way to check for understanding.

Discussion on how concepts in this chapter relate to your topic/project.
This topic would help teachers check for understanding on the project as well as give us ideas on how see that the children are actually learning something from the project.