My Lesson Plan End Result

My lesson plans are over the causes and outcomes of the Civil War. My lessons are directed toward 7th grade middle school students. The end result will be that students will know more important information than Leaders and Battles. I want my students to know the era. Why a war had even began and how it shaped the United States.

Great job to those who presented tonight. You guys stepped up and did it even though you were not confident in them. Tuens out they were great and you have more help to complete your second presontation. I learned that I need to make sure my objectives need to be detailed. I apprciate all three of you for presenting and will use your experience to help my presentation. You did amazing. See you Thursday!!

Formative vs Performance Tasks

This week during class we discussed Understanding by Design (UbD). We discussed its framework, the seven key tenets and the three stages of UbD. Towards the end of class we went into greater detail about Formative assessments and Performance Task. Formative assessments are a way for teachers to modify their teaching and learning activities to help make sue students are learning the intended material. An example of a formative assessment would be an exit ticket given to students at the end of class over the material that was just lectured on.

 

A performance task is a planned activity that is given to students to perform to let them demonstrate their knowledge or ability to conduct the subject. Overall these performance tasks allows the teacher to observe a student on their own. At first I had a difficult time coming up with a performance  task, but we were given the opportunity to hear more examples. An example of a performance task is for a student to demonstrate the ability to find the equation for a parabola given only a few of the coordinate points.