4/4/08 -- Module #4: Creating Evaluations

Finishing Up: How can we know students learned the lesson?

Here is what each group should have completed so far:

• Each student has read the three introductory articles, and write a wiki entry that describes one thing discussed in each article that you would like to implement in your classroom.
  
  
• 150 word summary of your research for your lesson plan, including
1. NYS Standards
2. How the research informed your lesson plan
   
3. How you plan to implement your lesson plan
   
4. 4 APA Citations
   
   
• Six Website links that have lesson plans similar to one you created, and descriptions that will be added to our link list.
  
  
• Complete the Online Collaborative Writing Project, which will help your group define the words, "blog," and "wiki."
  
1. Common Blog Features
2. Blog Characteristics Sheet
3. Blogger Planning Sheet
4. Process Rubric Sheet
   
   
• Completing the worksheets from the WebQuest About WebQuest site.
  
  
• Adding content to the Wikispace webpage, including
1. 150 word summary
   
2. Lesson Plan
3. Lesson Plan Websites
   
4. Materials for WebQuest
   
5. Lesson Plan Websites

Lesson Plan Templates

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Avoiding the rush to insanity

There are wikis , online generators, Excel spreadsheets, and webpage lists on lesson plan templates. We will use my simple Lesson Plan Template to help build your lesson plans. All you need to do is type or copy/paste your information into the template, and save it. That's it!

Writing Regents Questions

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How do we know our students know
what we know we taught them?

The best way to find Regents questions appropriate to your lesson plan is to go online to the Regents archive and find the appropriate subject matter.

• ELA
• Math
• Social Studies
• Science

Let's say we wanted to create some Science Regents questions for Grade 4. First, we would find a recent exam, and access the Rating Guide for that exam. Go to the next to last page of the document (page 17), and look at the item map that links each question in the test to relevant standards. Let's say my lesson applied to Standard PS 5.1. Question 9 is appropriate for that standard. So let's download the Spring 2007 Grade 4 Science Regents Exam and create a question that we can save as a Word document.

Looking at Question 9, we can see that we need to create a question format, a graphic format, and an answer format. Open up the final document to see what we will be making.

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Homework

Each group will create 5 Regents based questions that apply the New York standards appropriate to that lesson, using the techniques modeled in class.