Reading Reflection #9

1. Description of a method of understanding prior-knowledge of students.              It was previously discussed to use a KWL activity to determine you student's prior knowledge, but a teacher must create an activity that will bring up their prior knowledge.
2. Discussion on the importance of establishing anchors for a project. It is important to establish anchors because it can help teachers gain sense of where students are starting (prior knowledge) and how far they are going as they work to meet learning goals.
3. Description of several ways to assess what students learned during the project. A couple ways to assess what students have learned is to create a task that asks students to summarize what they learned, have a panel come in to judge the student's completed work, or encourage student's to enter their work into a contest!
4. Discussion on how concepts in this chapter relate to your topic/project. For our project we have created a kickball tournament which is a task that student's will be running to show what they have learned about this particular sport.