Formative Assessment

Here is what I am using for my formative assessment.

Anchor Video

Here is my anchor video on the smartest breed of dog.

Driving Question

My driving question is:

Which dog breed is the smartest?

It goes with the WV CSO: SC.O.5.1.12 use inferential reasoning to make logical conclusions from collected data.

Lesson

Here is the lesson I would like to teach. It goes with the Power Standard: Students will comprehend appropriate level literacy and informational text. I feel like this activity would fit my struggling students learning interests because he really enjoys Reading and Language Arts. It is the only subject that he really succeeds in, and he seems to be very interested in different stories. He also always likes to tell me things he thinks is going to happen, and predicting is what this lesson is about. I feel like he would enjoy the lesson, and would be actively involved. I know that he truly wants to do well, I just sometimes think that he is not interested in the lessons that are being taught. A lot of the reasons why I feel like he is not interested, is because he is not able to get out of his seat and move around the classroom. This lesson would allow the students to get up, explore, and move around the classroom.

Howard Gardner

Howard Gardner came up with the Multiple Intelligences Theory. He believes that all children learn differently, and that you should not teach every lesson only using one intelligence. This doesn't mean that you should teach using all intelligences, but you should use several different ones in your lessons, pertaining to how your students learn. You can find this out by having your students complete a learning styles survey, to decide how your students learn. It could be spatial, kinesthetic, linguistic, and so on. This is very important to know, so that you are reaching all of your students needs. From taking the survey, I found out that my top three intelligences are: body movement (kinesthetic), musical, and self (intrapersonal). I agree with all of these, I feel like these are the ways I learn best. Here is a link to my results.

Struggling Student

There is a struggling student in my first grade classroom. He is repeating first grade this year, and he is constantly acting out. He doesn't listen to any directions or her lessons, and when it is time for him to do his work, he has no clue. He becomes very frustrated when he gets questions wrong and has to redo them. I tried to work with him, but he won't pay attention to anything. My teacher has just had enough. She used to let him make up the work that he got wrong, but now she is just counting things wrong. She said she is tired of spoon feeding him everything. When playing games, if he gets out, he calls himself a "loser" and says that he fails in everything he does. I just really wonder what goes on at home, and think it is a very sad situation. I know he wants to do well and please others, but he just can't seem to focus and stop himself from acting out.