Module 7: Pedagogy
7.3.2 Planning for assessments
- Design a unit’s worth of lesson plans to target the specific skills, knowledge, and areas that you have already identified as necessary for your students to find success. The whole planning process is recursive. Make objectives, make a tool for assessing whether or not students have reached the objectives, identify what the students need to succeed on the assessment, and design instructions that target the students’ needs.
- After you have taken your students through the unit and graded the assessment, it is time for you to reflect on your teaching. Your objectives were to help your students be able to do A, B, and C. Were you successful? Did enough students succeed that you can move ahead without worrying about their progress? If students did not succeed, what kept them from succeeding? How can you do things differently the next time you implement the unit to ensure that your students are more successful?
- There are two ways in which the previous reflection can inform your teaching. First, redesign your unit so that it more effectively helps students achieve your objectives. When you teach the unit next year, you should have more success. Second, what skills did the students miss in this unit that they will need in the next unit? Their performance in this unit should inform your planning of the next unit. If most of your students did not get the skill you were planning for them to hone, then it should now become one of your objectives for the next unit. You cannot just write them off and hope for better results next year. You need to make up for it with these students and then adjust your instruction so that it is more effective next year.
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