This document outlines a teacher's pre-assessment and lesson planning for an essay skills unit. The pre-assessment revealed weaknesses in students' thesis statements, transitions, evidence, and tone/audience. To address these, the teacher planned lessons on writing strong theses, using academic sources and tone, logical reasoning and evidence, outlining and peer editing essays. Lessons utilized worksheets, examples, and digital tools to help students improve their essay writing skills.
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Librarians all know the importance of a reference interview -- it's to make sure you're addressing what the patron actually needs. Classes take longer, and involve more people, but the fact still holds: to give the best service, you need to assess what the needs actually are.
An additional benefit of pre-assessment is that it can provide evidence of the impact of the teaching program, both to university administration and to accreditation organizations.
Presented by Gwen Exner at "Assessment Beyond Statistics" NCLA College & Universities Section/Community & Junior Colleges Section 2012 conference.
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Feedback is another opportunity to teach our students. When our students are focused on the assessment that they have just completed we can talk about what they have done well in the assignment, what they might do better and what they can do differently next time. Many of us have opened our classroom doors to our colleagues and invited them to give us feedback on our teaching, but how many of us have shared our thoughts, ideas and strategies around our marking and feedback?
What will they need? Pre-assessment techniques for instruction session.gwenexner
Librarians all know the importance of a reference interview -- it's to make sure you're addressing what the patron actually needs. Classes take longer, and involve more people, but the fact still holds: to give the best service, you need to assess what the needs actually are.
An additional benefit of pre-assessment is that it can provide evidence of the impact of the teaching program, both to university administration and to accreditation organizations.
Presented by Gwen Exner at "Assessment Beyond Statistics" NCLA College & Universities Section/Community & Junior Colleges Section 2012 conference.
Peer Evaluation Strategy for Improving Group Participation at Brightspace Ten...D2L Barry
"Peer Evaluation Strategy for Improving Group Participation;" at Brightspace Tennessee Ignite on February 13, 2015. Presenters: Brenda Kerr and Cary Greenwood, Middle Tennessee State University
Evaluating an Instructional Sequence with Interactive Simulations (ISIS)David Geelan
A novel sequence for teaching students physics concepts and inquiry skills was developed and evaluated. It was found to enhance students' conceptual understanding, confidence in their understanding and skills in inquiry learning
Feedback is another opportunity to teach our students. When our students are focused on the assessment that they have just completed we can talk about what they have done well in the assignment, what they might do better and what they can do differently next time. Many of us have opened our classroom doors to our colleagues and invited them to give us feedback on our teaching, but how many of us have shared our thoughts, ideas and strategies around our marking and feedback?
21 plus digital tools for 21st Century learners - more web2.0 tools for 2011, using the e5 instructional model (engage, explore, explain, evaluate, elaborate).
Art of a Medical Research (Art of making an Original Research Article)Prof. Dr. Hironmoy Roy
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This presentation provides an overview of inquiry as an instructional strategy, the 5E learning cycle, and how elementary teachers can use these to integrate science and literacy instruction.
Alternative Assessments
Brown and Hudson ( 1988) noted that to speak of alternatives assessment is counterproductive because the term implies some thing new and different that may be exempt from the requirements of responsible test construction.
Assessment procedures that are not like traditional tests with respect to format, performance or implementation
Traditional vs Alternative
What should alternative assessments do?
Ask Ss to perform, create, produce or do something
Tap higher level thinking skills
Use tasks that are meaningful
Invoke real world applications
People, not machines, do the scoring
Require new instructional and assessment roles for teachers
The alternatives in assessment must be:
Open ended in their time orientation and format
Contextualized to a curriculum
Referenced to the criteria ( objectives) of that curriculum and
Likely to build intrinsic motivation.
Two Teaching Approaches
Educators: This is an online graphic representation of some of the teaching approaches of module two of the CI winter 2015 course in CAE.
21 plus digital tools for 21st Century learners - more web2.0 tools for 2011, using the e5 instructional model (engage, explore, explain, evaluate, elaborate).
Art of a Medical Research (Art of making an Original Research Article)Prof. Dr. Hironmoy Roy
This describes the path from conceive to birth of a medical research paper, describes how an author can plan the entire way of making an original research article.
This presentation provides an overview of inquiry as an instructional strategy, the 5E learning cycle, and how elementary teachers can use these to integrate science and literacy instruction.
Alternative Assessments
Brown and Hudson ( 1988) noted that to speak of alternatives assessment is counterproductive because the term implies some thing new and different that may be exempt from the requirements of responsible test construction.
Assessment procedures that are not like traditional tests with respect to format, performance or implementation
Traditional vs Alternative
What should alternative assessments do?
Ask Ss to perform, create, produce or do something
Tap higher level thinking skills
Use tasks that are meaningful
Invoke real world applications
People, not machines, do the scoring
Require new instructional and assessment roles for teachers
The alternatives in assessment must be:
Open ended in their time orientation and format
Contextualized to a curriculum
Referenced to the criteria ( objectives) of that curriculum and
Likely to build intrinsic motivation.
Two Teaching Approaches
Educators: This is an online graphic representation of some of the teaching approaches of module two of the CI winter 2015 course in CAE.
Topic: Verb - The action word
Reference: English For You and Me: Reading Language 2 by: Benita N. Miranda
Materials: power point presentation, speaker, worksheets
Value Focus: Cooperation
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Writing Step-by-Step is a two-book writing series designed for young students of
English. Expanding on students’ knowledge of core vocabulary and fundamental
structures, this series introduces higher level, more expressive vocabulary, and
more complex structures to help emerging writers better express their ideas.
Students are also introduced to paragraph form and the basics of the writing
process, including essential brainstorming methods. Throughout each unit,
activities progress gradually step by step-from vocabulary building and structure
practice to writing sentences and their own fully developed paragraphs. The
series introduces students to increasingly complex paragraphs-from descriptive
and narrative to argumentative to parallel students developing fluency.
Features
Unit themes and topics that young learners can relate to
Carefully leveled vocabulary and structures
Wide variety of activity types to maintain interest
Guided practice with important steps in the writing process
Exposure to different paragraph types
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2. Student Learning Project
Essay Skills
- Crafting a Thesis
- Providing concrete, logically supportive
evidence
- Transitioning from one idea to the next
- Academic tone and audience
- Concluding statements
3. Pre-assessment
Watched the movie Hitch in class
Assigned an essay based on the movie
Wanted subject to be accessible so students
could focus on formal aspects of essay.
Gave no essay instruction beforehand
Gave the students a rubric by which the essay
was to be graded.
4. Results
Thesis
Nearly 75% of all students either had no thesis at
all, wrote a thesis that was vague and unclear, or
had two or more theses in the introductory
paragraph.
Transitions
Nearlyhalf of all students provided no transitions
between sentences and another 25% gave only
cursory, “canned” transitional phrases.
5. Results
Evidence
Just over 40% of the students did not provide
evidence for their thesis and another 30%
provided evidence that did not logically support
their thesis.
Tone and Audience
Whilemost students attempted to write with an
academic tone, many struggled with it and
approximately 25% opted for a non-academic
tone all together
6. Lesson Planning - Thesis
Thesis instruction and practice
I went over and gave out a handout outlining 4
important aspects of writing a thesis.
Had students practice writing theses on a
worksheet.
Worksheets was 8 exercises that consisted of an
essay prompt and an example of a poor thesis.
Students were instructed to create a better thesis
using the handout and instruction given prior to
exercises.
7. Lesson planning – Tone and
Audience
Use of academic journal articles
In preparation for a “fishbowl” discussion, I had
students read over an academic journal article on
gender in A Doll’s House.
Students made notes and used this article as
evidence in their discussion
8. Lesson Planning - Evidence
Logical Reasoning
I prepared a lesson that included a discussion of
logical reasoning.
This lesson consisted of explaining the transitive
property applied to language
Supportive Evidence
Another lesson I devised was a trial for the main
character in the play A Doll’s House.
Students had to either defend or prosecute based
on evidence from the text, which had to be cited.
9. Logical Reasoning - example
No kitten that loves fish is unteachable
No kitten without a tail will play with a gorilla
Kittens with whiskers always love fish
No teachable kitten has green eyes
No kittens have tails unless they have
whiskers
What logical conclusion can we come to from
these premises
10. Lesson Planning – Essay outline and peer
editing
Essay outline
When I assigned the final essay for ADH, I
required (for a grade) that students complete an
outline worksheet that included thesis sentence,
evidence, and transitional sentences.
I also required a rough draft. The day these were
due, I planned a peer editing workshop. I created
a rubric and peer editing guidelines and had
students critique each other based on these
guidelines.
11. Lesson planning - Citation
Citation was not a rubric requirement, but I
wanted to include it because it helps define
concrete evidence
I planned a lesson to introduce students to
Noodle Tools, which creates citations from
entered information.
This program also creates in text citation notes,
so students know how to properly cite their
quotes, paraphrases and summaries.
Editor's Notes
No kitten with green eyes will play with a gorilla