Reflection #9

1. Description of a method of understanding of prior knowledge of students.

 Something that you can do to understand what the prior knowledge of your students is to use an activity with them and using different assessment strategies. Some type of assessment will allow you to see what they really learned and what you need to work on. Relying on assessment strategies is a good way to understand prior knowledge.

2. Discussion on the importance of establishing anchors for a project.

By establishing anchors for a project you can see where the student stands and what area they need extra support in. You need to remember that not all students will start at the same spot, so the work and help for each student throughout the project will be different. 

3.  Description of several ways to assess what students learned during the project.

Several ways where you can assess your students work and learning progress in a project would be creating a lesson of their own and actually using and summarizing the information they learned. You can also just ask the students what they have learned and have them write it down in a journal and then talk together as a class. You may be surprised with some of the answers and information that students tell you and you can also ask more challenging questions if they seemed confident in the material learned.

4. Discussion on how concepts in this chapter relate to your topic/project.

This correlates well with our project because we always need to know where students stand and we need to be able to help them along the way if they are struggling with different material than other students. Having that end goal in mind will help everyone in the class work hard, be helpful and supportive, and eventually reach that goal.