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Week 6 Reflection







When it comes to lesson planning we have to make sure that our standards, objectives, instructional activities, and assessments are all aligned. This is important because if we do not do that then we are basically not referring back to our main point of what we are trying to get kids to learn and leading them down a path that is confusing. So in order to align all these components we need to work backward and create the assessment first so that we get what we want the main point to be and so then it allows us to align lessons and activities to what we want to get out of the students. When it comes to aligning the standards, objectives, and assessment, you will start with the standard and then creates the objective from that. For example, you have the standard, represent and solve problems involving adding and subtracting within 20 and for an objective, you could write:

Students will be able to:
Create, problems involving addition and subtraction, independently, within numbers 1 and 20, at 90% accuracy. For an assessment, I can give students a story problem where they can write the addition or subtraction equation out and solve it using any reasoning strategy.
When it comes to assessing this standard I would document with the students using an anchor chart and see how each student solved the problem. From there I can be writing anecdotal records.

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  1. Alexa TompkinsOctober 3, 2022 at 12:27 PM

    Love the triangle photo at the top. I also have that in my blog post.

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  2. McKenna RawsonOctober 4, 2022 at 5:22 PM

    I liked how you included a sample of aligning an objective with a standard. Great post!

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