Joe Booker

                 There are many differences between formative and summative assessment. Formative assessment occurs before or during instruction to see if students know that material they are about to learn or to see the progress of learning. When summative happens after instruction seeing if the student comprehended the material. Formative assessment is usually ungraded because students cannot be expected to be graded on something they do not know. When in summative assessment they are graded because it is how the teacher knows if the students retained the information they were taught. In formative assessment it helps the instruction by showing the teachers what they need to teach and what the children already know. In summative assessment it summarizes what the children were supposed to be learning throughout the lessons.  When I am a teacher I will make sure my students comprehend the material by using both formative and summative assessment. I will grade them on the quality of an oral presentation which will be a summative assesment. This presentation will be on the topics they did not comprehend during the formative assessment which was not graded. By making the children do a presentation on the material they did not comprehend it will force them to learn the information they present and also give me an opportunity to grade the children.

standardize tests

Joe Booker

                I feel that standardized testing puts more pressure on the teachers and students then is necessary. Standardize test are making teachers teach to the standardize test and not teaching for students to learn. The importance of school is to educate the children, they are the future of our world; these kids need knowledge not testing. My school prepared me for my standardized tests by getting ready for the standardize test the whole year so we were ready when we took it at the end of the year. This prepared us for the test but did it prepare us for life? These tests are taking away from the quality of our education.  If I had the ways and the means to I would get rid of standardize testing. Who cares what school does better than the others or what children are smarter than others if all the children are getting a quality education that’s all that matters. Quality education makes quality people, making the world a better place.  This should be the focus of education and this is how I plan to make education in the future.

Rubrics

Joe Booker

Chandler

Assessment case study

5/5/14

 

In Miss Wren's rubric that she is developing, she needs to remember that it needs to be valid, reliable, and absent of bias. The rubric must apply to each and every students oral book reports. A confidence interval will make use of the standard error of measurement which will allow Miss Wren to consider the range of scores that might include the student’s true score. To find the students confidence interval the score must be supported by evidence in the book report not just how she feels about the particular presentation. The absence of bias will give all the students a fair assessment making it the closest to the person’s true score. A way that Miss Wren can in cooperate an extrinsic reinforcement would be if the students receive an "A" on their book reports will not have to take the test on the book and the students who fail to receive an "A" will have to take a test on the book.

Joe Booker

I believe that first graders have the same curiosity and are just as motivated to learn as sixth graders or high school students. Students curiosity has not declined from first grade but it is the fact that students know so little when they are in first grade. At such a young age children have motivation to learn through their curiosity to find out what many people already know. To these first graders new knowledge, is new knowledge they aren't worried about what it is they just want to absorb as much information as they can. Older students on the other hand know all the basics and have a good grasp in most of the concepts in the world this does not mean they are not curious. These students are curious as well, they are just looking for certain things that interest them and the answers they are looking for might be more complex or not actually exist. They might question religion, what happens when you die, aliens, government, and  life. Curiosity will never stop no matter how old you are, there will always be things we don't know and there will always be things that we want to know, just all apart of life.

Maslows hierarchy

Joe Booker

        I believe that children can learn if they are hungry or feel unsafe in their environment but it is very difficult. Children have basic needs that need to be fulfilled. When a child feels safe in their environment and are fed they can learn to the best to their ability.  If a child were to feel unsafe or remotely uncomfortable in their environment, there would be obvious reasons as to why they were not succeeding. According to Maslow's hierarchy of needs, children's physical, emotional, and intellectual needs are interconnected. When a child is uncomfortable they are more concerned with being safe then learning. The problems with this hierarchy is that many people can learn even though it may be difficult. Not all children can go to school fed, not all children feel safe, and there are children who over come those adversities and become successful. When these children are in trouble it can motivate them to get out of the situation they are currently in. If a child feels discomfort in their homes, or they feel unsafe, they might feel that they are not supported or uplifted to do well.  A child requires support in order for themselves to do well.  I connected this to the movie about  Ron Clarke. Shameika was a child who had potential to be very successful, and her teacher, Ron Clarke, saw that in her.  Because she was always taking care of her siblings and having to take responsibility for her family, instead of her mother, she was being held back but Ron Clarke help her realize that she can rise above her situation and become successful.

iq test

Joe Booker

I took 2 different iq tests online and I thought both of them were pretty easy. I thought there were a few hard questions but all in all fair, I just felt like I needed  more time. I felt like since it was an online test that the time I took to take it would dictate my score. I think the iq test is so popular because it hits on most points of general knowledge but I don't feel that like this test is an accurate representation of intelligence. Everyone is intelligent in different ways, if a mechanic took an iq test and didn't do well, it doesn't mean they aren't intelligent and cant fix cars, it just means they aren't strong in the areas the iq test asks for. I would approach iq testing as more of an experiment to see what categories of intelligence a student does well in and the categories of things students did not do to well in. This will make it clear for what a teacher needs to spend extra time on with a student and when a teacher should spend less time on doing. This will save both the teacher and the student time on things they know and reallocate time for things they don't know. This can apply for all age groups and aid in the development of children.



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bullying vs. teasing

Joe Booker

            There is definitely a difference between teasing and bullying. Teasing can be between friends and family who know the child on a personal level. For example me and my dad always tease each other it’s not bullying we love each other it’s just us poking fun at each other. But if someone who didn’t know me very well were to call me names or push me it would be bullying.  The main way a teacher can determine when a student being bullied is intent. When children are friends it’s just teasing but when students go out of their way to hurt someone else because they don’t like them it is bullying. If the intention is just to make the other person laugh it is all in good fun. Hurting someone morally and making the other children around them laugh is bullying. Teachers have to intervene if the situation at hand is bullying and even if it is teasing the teacher should still make sure the student is comfortable with what is going on. If it is bullying or teasing the child that it is directed towards is the judge of what it is and should feel comfortable with what the other person is saying. If the child is not comfortable with what is being said the teacher has to be direct and tell the bully that what he is doing is wrong and that they need to stop. If it still continues higher level punishment should be put in order and parents should be called to make notice of the situation. By telling the parents it puts another set of eyes on the children making different viewpoint on certain situations making it easier to find a solution to the problems.