Creating First Exposure Assignments: Whats The Assignment Got To Do With It

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Creating First Exposure Assignments Whats The
Assignment Got To Do With It?

• PETAL
• December 6, 2007
• Michelle Erklenz-Watts

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• Why dont students complete their homework with
  the level of thinking that is expected?
• Brainstorm.

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Checklist Making the grades

• A
• B
• C
• D
• F

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A

• Accountability
• Use it and or collect it
• Example Reading Responses
• Eduplace.com/graphicorganizer
• Teachervision.fen.com (search graphic
  organizers)
• Writedesignonline.com/organizers
• Graphicorganizers.com

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Excerpt from syllabus regarding accountability

• Portfolio Portfolios are a tool for both
  students and teachers to monitor and evaluate the
  learning process and progress. Therefore, you
  must maintain a 3 ring binder of all your class
  assignments. Each day I may collect your
  assignment(s) or whole portfolio. We will
  revisit pieces of your work as we progress
  through the semester. Therefore, your portfolio
  should be up-to-date, organized, and available at
  all times. At the end of the semester you will
  be asked to either write or orally present your
  own reflection regarding this process and your
  progress.
• Reading Response Assignments These are either
  graphic organizers (GO) or assessment techniques
  that are provided for you. You must reference
  the book and page number of your comments as they
  relate to the reading. If the format of the
  reading response assignment is stifling to you in
  anyway, you may come up with your own version of
  documentation but the same elements must be
  addressed.

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A

• Authentic
• Meaningful now
• Example Essential Questions
• http//www.k12.hi.us/dtisdell/webquest/ssessques.
  htm
• http//www.criticalthinking.org/TGS_files/SAM-Ques
  tions2005.pdf
• http//www.spa3.k12.sc.us/eqtemplate.htm
• http//www.spa3.k12.sc.us/vietnameq.htm

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Excerpt from syllabus for authentic

• Course Goals/Essential Questions
• Through exploring essential questions, candidates
  will uncover the social construction of teaching
  concepts and become fully aware of how the
  answers to each question directly affects how and
  what strategies and methods they implement in
  their teaching.
• How do you get to know the needs of all learners
  (from various cultures and abilities)?
• How do you effectively manage and organize a
  classroom and learning while meeting the needs of
  all learners?
• What is Social Studies?
• How does philosophy relate to pedagogy?
• What is good testing and assessment for all
  students?
• How do you engage all students in learning?

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Excerpt from syllabus for accountability and
authenticity
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B

• Build Relationships
• Share yourself
• Ask them to share

• Believe in your Students
• Set high expectations but scaffold for success
• Example Course rubrics (on back of notes
  sheet), Group member checks, mid-term self checks

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Group Member Check

• Group-Work Check for Process and Product
• Overall, how effectively did your group work
  together on this assignment (Rate 1 to 5, with 5
  being the best, and explain)?
• Out of all the members, how many participated
  actively?
• Out of all the members, how many were fully
  prepared?
• Give a specific example of something you learned
  from your group that you probably wouldnt have
  learned working alone.
• Give a specific example of something the other
  group members learned from you that they probably
  wouldnt have learned otherwise.
• Suggest one change that could improve your group
  work outside of class.

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C

• Classroom Culture
• Professional working environment
• Example Practice like youll play
• Collaborative
• Example Create classroom commitments

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D

• Disposition
• Yours
• Look to yourself when you are not successful
• Theirs
• Look to yourself when you are not successful
• Example for both
• Disposition Rubric, http//soe.sjfc.edu/rubrics/pd
  f/ProfessionalDispositions.pdf

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F

• Feedback
• Immediate
• Before the next assignment is dueif not, loses
  meaning (see below)
• Meaningful
• Make it instructional rather than punitive
• Relates to prior assignments
• Example Track comments

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Excerpt from notes on students

• 9/19, GO1-very neat tw, asked her to expand on
  personal experiences, needs to consistently
  reference 9/26-LPC with DH ideas, good review of
  MIs but needs more off of checklist. No DH
  ideas are referenced so incomplete 10/3-did not
  turn in portfolio10/4I emailed her and she
  responded immediately with apoligies and came
  right over to my office to drop it off, she just
  forgot, very organized but GO 2 has no page
  numbers and GO4 needs to complete section E, LPC
  10.3-no ref to readings but good critique 10/10,
  1st LP- no SS standards or curric., needs to get
  prior knowledge or hook, needs to provide
  handouts, strong rationale, needs some structure
  for success, no current event, Preconcept not
  complete on GO, no handout for HOW reading-only
  had her personal notes 10/17-Materials review
  list, no reference to at least 3 articles, asked
  why, not sure about some comments for
  guidance10/24-2nd LP- no SS standards or curric,
  has EQs but seems more UQs, learning outcomes
  needs to focus on learning not what they will be
  doing, needs intial motivation, has later, I
  suggest to move it up, has talk, explain-needs
  to give more detail, has web but not in lesson
  plan, great organization, rubric and assessment
  are not matached, rubric needs to make
  distinctions, DBQs for class are incomplete,
  10/31-GO5, identified import points and made
  connections 11/14- Lesson plan with technology,
  needs to label adapts and mis, not all los are
  being assessed, lesson suggest inquiry but does
  not follow through, questions need to be written
  out and labeled, needs ant set. 12/5 Show What
  You Know- Lesson plan-75, reflection has
  summary but no real reflection checklist good
  but needs to organize

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• Revisit our initial essential question with an
  add on.
• Why dont students complete their homework with
  the level of thinking that is expected?
• Brainstorm

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• So go make the grade---
• all of them!!