Evaluation

Summative Assessment. Click here to veiw my rubric to grade my students final product.

Formative Assessment

Click here to view my formative assessment, which is a mind map. Students will write or draw anything that comes to their mind when asked the question: What is culture?

Interest Inventory on Student

I conducted the interest inventory that I posted before on a student in my class today that is struggling. This student is in 3rd grade and is a male. It took about 15 minutes to complete the survey. He listed his name birthday, three best friends, and his brother and sister's name to start the survey. He was unsure on both spellings and asked for help. The next question was his favorite movie, which he quickly answered with "HOP". On the following question he had to think of an answer for about a minute. The question was his favorite book. He then finally answered with "The Littlest Llama." The next question he answered quickly as well, favorite singer. He replied with "Little Wayne." He then said that his favorite song was "Firework." His listed his favorite televsion show as "1,000 way to die." He was also asked if he had one wish what would it be? He replied with I would want to be the smartest kid in the world." The next question ask asked him how school could be better, and his reply was "If we could play games all day." He was then asked what he would do with one million dollars? He answered with "Spend it all on toys and candy." Next he was asked what is one thinig his teacher from last year did that he liked and one thing she did that he didn't like. He said fractions for the like, and handwriting for the dislike. He then listed his favorite hobbies as sports like soccer and his favorite thing to do at home is play with his friends.

I thought conducted this interest inventory was very interesting. I would not have guess that for one wish in the world he would chose to be the smartest kid in the world. I think it would also be interesting to compare someone who is not struggling in school to this student. I wonder if someone who is not struggling would list reading as a hobby, or doing homework as something they like to do at home.

Driving questions and anchor video for Webquest

The driving questions for my webquest is: How is the culture in your own country different from and similar to the culture in the country you are taking your field trip to?
(My teacher wants me to do countries even though it does not match the power standard for 3rd grade.)

Here is a link to the video I found for my webquest.

Power Standard and Link

I am doing a text step in my third grade classroom for my pbl. The text step requires the students to create a power point for a virtual field trip. The students will choose a country to take their class too and talk about the cultures, diversity, and use pictures to show important places in their country. I chose to use social studies power standard 5. Click here to view this standard. Since my teacher wants me to do a text step it is pretty much already laid out. However, I did find a lesson that is similar or could be done along with the text step. Click here for the link to this lesson. There are several other lessons that I found on the the ThinkFinity website that I think would be fun to do along with this power standard. I think teaching children about cultures is very important and is something I am very interested in. I think that this activity would benifit the struggling student in my class or other struggling students because they could use more pictures than words if they struggle with reading and writing like the student in my class. I think that it would also help my student because it might interest them to be able to learn about other cultures and countries. I think it would also interest a struggling student beacuse they have choices to what they use in the their media presentation.

Types of Learners

After taking this survey I found that my learning style was 4.86 kinesthetic or body movement, 4.57 Interpersonal or social, and 3.43 linguistic or language. The other scores that were listed for my other intelligences were 3.43 intrapersonal or self, 3.43 naturalist or nature, 2.57 spatial, 2.75 musical, and 1.71 logic/math. The three intellingences that were highlighted in my test were kinesthetic, interpersonal, and linguistic.

The strategies that could be used for a kinesthetic learners need to be hands on and minds on. One activity that would be good for this type of learner would be acting out a story as a play versus just reading it. This types of learners need to use manipulitives and move their bodies while learning. Another activity that is good for kinesthetic learners is to learn how to write letters by using clay. I have seen special education students use magnets to help them learn how to spell their names. This type of learner might need to take breaks to get up and move around or even take a walk while taking in information. I believe that I am mostly this type of learner because I am always on the go. Kinesthetic learners also can benifit from interactive learning games. One game that would be helpful to this type of learner is playing a game with students on a big map of the United States on the playground. Announce a state to the students and have them walk to find it and stand on it. This will help the students remember the location and the name of the state.

One strategy for a interpersonal type of learner is think pair share. These learners enjoy talking and often learn a lot from their peers. Another strategy is using cooperative groups such as, numbered heads together or jigsaw. These students would do well with projects that involve a presentation since they like to talk. Another activity that would be good to use with this types of learner is doing a video or interview project.

Lingustic learners enjoy writing and reading. A strategy that would be good for this type of learner would involve the student reading aloud. They could also keep journals reflecting on what they have reaad or to their own personal life. One activity that this type of learner would enjoy is a story telling project. I watched a video on a school that did a story telling unit for the students. This type of learner would benifit from an activity like this.

Struggling student

I have been observing a student who is struggling in school for the past few classes. This student does have an IEP and is a lower level student in both math and reading. This student leaves the room for an hour a day to go to the special education classroom. This student can do much of the work that is given to her on her own, it just takes her longer. However, she is a bit lazy and wants someone else to do it for her. She does not try very hard and often turns in work that is uncompleted or asks the teacher or myself for "help". Her asking for help means she does not want it explained to her she wants it done for her. Which of course we do not do. I notice that as the day goes on she has more and more trouble completing her work. It is almost like she gets bored of being at school. This student is very socialable with the other students and seems to have friends in the class. This student has trouble reading outloud during stories, and the other students help her a lot. I thought this was very cool because they did not make fun of her at all, instead they tried to help her. This student seems to have low self esteem when it comees to school work, which I think is why she always wants help. She seems very unsure of herself and is constantly questioning herself. This student does get excited when she does understand somethin though. She was working on numberic patterns and when she finally got it she was so excited and proud of herself.

My goal is to get this child interested in learning in hopes of making it easier for her. I also want to help her improve her reading skills so that she can be more confident when reading in front of the class. My teacher has many different instructional activities that she is going to allow me to do with this student during class time.