I enjoyed yesterday's session. I think that it is good practice to look up standards and objectives on ALEX and match them to the lessons that we teach. I also believe that using essential, unit, and content questions helps us as educators to focus in on what we want our students to gain from a particular lesson. I feel that I need to use more assessment strategies in my classroom, so I was interested in the different documents that we looked at on assessment.
Sometimes, well most of the time, I get in such a tunnel vision I forget to focus "outside the box" and look for more created ways to use our course of study / standards / objectives. The PLC is helping me to rethink ways I can motivate CMS teachers and administration even more for 21st century technology daily use.
It has helped me to visualize all goals ahead of time that I have for my students and exactly what I want them to learn in a unit. It helped me focus on higher-order thinking and ways to help students become more independent thinkers.
The lessons in Module 2 were helpful in planning a unit that will meet specific standards and objectives. In addition, the lessons provided new ideas for gauging students needs, using curriculum framing questions, and assessing student progress.
I agree with Vickey--I need to look "out of the box"--outside my comfort area--The PLC is making me become more a facilitator of learning for my students. Helping them to ask," What if. . .?" I love being able to "bounce" ideas off of each other--and the fellowship is great! Amye
Module 2 has helped me refresh the Bloom's Taxonomy mode of asking questions. This is great because the theme for this year's PLC meetings at VHS is Quality Questioning. I truly believe "if you don't use it, you lose it"!
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I enjoyed yesterday's session. I think that it is good practice to look up standards and objectives on ALEX and match them to the lessons that we teach. I also believe that using essential, unit, and content questions helps us as educators to focus in on what we want our students to gain from a particular lesson. I feel that I need to use more assessment strategies in my classroom, so I was interested in the different documents that we looked at on assessment.
Sometimes, well most of the time, I get in such a tunnel vision I forget to focus "outside the box" and look for more created ways to use our course of study / standards / objectives. The PLC is helping me to rethink ways I can motivate CMS teachers and administration even more for 21st century technology daily use.
It has helped me to visualize all goals ahead of time that I have for my students and exactly what I want them to learn in a unit. It helped me focus on higher-order thinking and ways to help students become more independent thinkers.
The lessons in Module 2 were helpful in planning a unit that will meet specific standards and objectives. In addition, the lessons provided new ideas for gauging students needs, using curriculum framing questions, and assessing student progress.
I agree with Vickey--I need to look "out of the box"--outside my comfort area--The PLC is making me become more a facilitator of learning for my students. Helping them to ask," What if. . .?" I love being able to "bounce" ideas off of each other--and the fellowship is great!
Amye
Module 2 has helped me refresh the Bloom's Taxonomy mode of asking questions. This is great because the theme for this year's PLC meetings at VHS is Quality Questioning. I truly believe "if you don't use it, you lose it"!
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