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Week 5 reflection








In this week's class, we learned the importance and how we should write objectives. Objectives are very important when it comes to making lessons for your students because they basically show or state what the student should know or be able to do after instruction. These objectives are always linked to a core standard and include a "formula" that was discussed in class. This is the ABCD formula. the A stands for the audience which is, usually in a classroom setting the student/learner. The B stands for behavior, so this is what the student/ learner will be doing. C stands for the condition, so what circumstances are they doing it? Lastly, the D stands for degree so this is at what level of understanding you want. An example of this put together is, Given a piece of paper, each student will write down with a pencil 3 book handling skills, with at least 70% accuracy. When writing an objective, you want to apply this formula because it provides a clear and learner-centered objective. This is needed because you would want to know exactly what you want the children to know and at what level, plus how they will achieve it. This formula is something that I will always use as a teacher because it will allow me to know what I want the students to do and at what level and how. I will implement this when it comes to planning all my lessons.

 

Finally, we had a guest speaker, Lauren Wagner, who showed and explained the standard-based grading and examples of analytic and holistic rubrics she has used for the projects she showed us. A lot of the terms she used I knew from this class, were terms such as analytic, holistic, summative assessment, formative, and more. As she was presenting, she showed us some of these authentic examples of her own and how we can create these as well as how this reflects standard-based grading. After learning about all of this it was reflected in this class. First starting off with standard-based grading it basically showed it on a continuum or scale which reflects how we created the analytic rubrics because we had 4 levels, and it was on a scale of how well they did on what we were assessing, which connects to the standard-based assessment by addressing how well they mastered what we were asking.  Lastly, it reflects my learning from this class by knowing that a lot of her questions from her assessment were open-ended. I feel like this was stressed in this class because it shows us what the students are capable of instead of giving them options where they memorize the correct answer. There were a few other ways that it reflected my learning from this class but above are a couple I took away. Overall, this week I learned a lot and plan to use this information in my classroom in some way.


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  1. McKenna RawsonSeptember 27, 2022 at 11:10 AM

    The picture provides a great visual for understanding the ABCD format of objectives

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