You have now applied various types of learning and teaching:
- Creating learning strategies activities
- Blogging
- Assessing
- Evaluating one another
Now that you are really delving into evaluating and assessing activities and one another, consider how you will (or do) accommodate peer evaluation in your classroom. How will or did activities like learning strategies, blogging, peer- and self-assessing open your eyes to how differently we all learn and interact with the concept of learning? (If we were in a face-to-face class, you all would also be jigsawing, whiteboarding, etc.) How important is it to let students play a role in assessment (whether peer assessing, creating their own learning strategy activities, or even writing their own quizzes)?
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Friday, Dec. 30th and Respond by Monday, Jan. 2nd
In my classroom, I will use many of these activities to get my students more involved. Getting them thinking about what they should be doing and helping each other by having them give feed back to one another. I love the fact that you have us blog with each other because it has shown me different ways of thinking about things, which is great in the classroom. Many of us don't know how others think because not all teachers make us interact with one another. Also, the reflections are really helpful on getting my brain going and diving deeper into what I feel and how I should rethink some things. I feel like it is important to have students play a big role in assessments because it makes them think more. Just like making our own quizzes, that makes not only the person taking the quiz think, but makes you think about what you would want on the test how you would answer some of those questions. I think just getting the kids involved in everything, helps them learn what is needed to learn in a different way rather than just sitting in front of a teacher getting lectured at.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you when you say that it has helped me think deeper and critically into things when we have to reflect. A lot of the things that we have done, like creating the quiz for each other, really made me think about what information is important in the chapter so I had to read into the material deeper.
DeleteI also agree that it has helped me think deeper on things. It has also allowed me to think about things in a different way or think about things I never would have thought of.
DeleteIt is always good to get a wide variety of opinions, backgrounds, and experiences. I too really enjoy and value the blogs for ideas. I also like having to do first hand the different types of assignments. I may not enjoy them so much at the time but afterwards I am glad I did them so that I have different ideas to take to the classroom. We have a new teacher program at the school I teach that has become very recognized. The director said she is contacted by Wong who writes of The First Days of School and Classroom Management regularly. We have a lot of workshops and activities we are required to attend and share information. That has been so helpful as well.
DeleteI think it is important for students to know how to peer assess and self assess as these strategies are ones they will use no matter what work environment they enter. I tell my students all the time when they go to work, bosses will not stand over their shoulder watching what they do and give feedback for each task. They will just realize when work has not been done and done to their standards. When that happens they will come looking for the culprit and deal with the issue at hand which could include termination. Students need to be able to tell if they and those around them are doing tasks as they should. The variety of assessments aides in learning and makes it more fun than traditional multiple choice types of assessments. It also gives greater feedback to teachers to know how well the students are comprehending the content.
ReplyDeleteI think peer assessments are a very useful tool. Just like you said, in the work place, your boss is not going be looking over your shoulder and giving you feedback on everything. Just like in the classroom, the teacher can not just look over one students shoulder, that wouldn't be fair to the rest of them. Using peer reflections is a great way to make sure each student is doing what they need to do.
DeletePeer reflections is also a good way for students to fine tune their work. We as students often care more about what our peers will think than what our teachers would think. Peer evaluations is also great for a student to see what others are doing and fine tune their own project.
DeleteI think what you talked about is a great real life example that I think everyone needs to think about. Self evaluation is such a vital part of being successful in school and life, as well as everything you do as a human.
DeleteFrom what we have done I think peer evaluation is a great idea. It gets your students working with each other and communicating with each other as well as giving one another feedback which may be from a different perspective then another person or teacher. Blogging is good for getting everyones opinion and seeing the different opinions of everyone, like discussion as well. When talking about the same information and narrow topics, it has been eye opening to me to see the different thought and opinions. I can only imagine all the wide variety of different things that could be brought up from a group of people with a more broad topic. Great way to learn and collaborate as well as being fun! I personally think that student being able to play a role in assessment is good because it helps teach students to hold their self accountable for being honest and helpful to the other students. Also, creating assessments help students learn in a different and more fun way than traditional styles of teaching. This makes the classroom a more enjoyable environment and learning more interesting.
ReplyDeleteI do agree that students being involved in assessment makes the classroom more enjoyable and interesting as well. I can only imagine the differing views that could come about not only with a broader topic but also with more people. Socratic seminars are very useful for those types of things.
DeleteI do agree that the more variety you can have in the classroom the more fun it will be for the students. I have found that the more they are engaged in the class, the more they enjoy it. The students don't like just doing meaningless activities either like worksheets. In my marketing class, the students ask to share their work and their peer's work. The students enjoy having others review their work and provide feedback
DeleteYou are so correct in that peer reflections get the students working together and talking with each other. Which is very important in the classrooms today. I also like how you said something about it being fun to blog because in this class I do think it is fun, but not only that, but getting to see what everyone else thinks is a cool way to see what everyone else is thinking. I do think that us as teachers we need to make the class more of a fun environment, not just you have to read then take a test. All of theses are great ways to make the classroom fun and enjoyable for everyone!
ReplyDeleteI really like the blogging aspect of this class. Not only does this allow me to get peer feedback and interaction but I am able to put my thoughts out more effectively than I would be able to in a normal classroom discussion. From peer evaluation alone, I believe we each learn a lot. I also believe that students playing a role in assessment is good because not only do they learn more about what is being taught but they can learn to think more critically and judge the quality of their work better.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you, when I type/write out my thoughts they go a lot more smooth and I feel like I can have a better discussion rather then the alternative of in class talks.
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