Representing+Knowledge


 * **__Products__**
 * Quizzes, tests, and exams
 * Building projects (physics egg drop, Rube Goldberg Project)
 * Performances: monologues, music, acting, song
 * Gallery exhibitions
 * Portfolios
 * Designing experiments
 * Writing: essays, lab reports, poems, original composition, plays
 * Computer-based: wikis, online conversations, blogs, google apps, pod casts, ‘weeblies, webpages, powerpoint, windows movie maker
 * Debates
 * Diagrams
 * Organization of Community /School events, fundraising (leadership)
 * Drawing, art, sculpture
 * Presentations
 * Show & Tell
 * Video, media
 * Interviewing
 * Modeling
 * Assignments
 * Interpretive dance
 * Demonstrations of applied skills
 * Creating a business
 * Resume
 * Posters || **__Strategies__**
 * Conversations
 * Reflection
 * Think-alouds
 * Targeted discussion
 * Self-evaluation
 * Note-taking (possibly Cornell Notes)
 * Socratic discussions
 * Philosophical chairs
 * Check lists
 * Graphic organizers
 * Peer tutoring/teaching others
 * Revision & revised products
 * Group editing
 * Brainstorming
 * Self assessment
 * Expert groups (jigsaw)
 * Collectively building criteria
 * Rubrics
 * Annotating
 * Interactive Notebooks
 * Think-pair-share
 * Making predictions
 * Creating hypothesis
 * Providing examples
 * Problem solving
 * Critical thinking
 * Group work, social interactions, collaboration
 * Kinesthetic processes
 * Listening, viewing, speaking, visuals, tactile, movement
 * Metacognition – thinking about their thinking ||
 * **__Terminology__**
 * Formative assessment
 * Summative assessment
 * Assessment as Learning
 * Assessment of Learning
 * Assessment for Learning
 * Representing Learning – different ways to let people ‘know what you know’
 * Differentiated Instruction – giving students choice in assignment, instruction, assessment (based on learning style preferences, abilities, interests)
 * Proper use of ‘buzz words’ – common language
 * Learning styles
 * Metacognition || **__Skills, Applications & Other Ideas__**
 * Outside school credit (teams, clubs, community service)
 * Technology – ability to use and apply
 * Applying real world examples
 * Connecting to self, text, world, others
 * Self Awareness
 * Ability to change opinions based on new learning
 * Collaborative work
 * Skills in the work force
 * Exposure to multiple ways of expressing learning
 * Service learning – community projects
 * Fairs to demonstrate learning (cultural, foods, products, cross curricular)
 * Connections between curriculums
 * Student learning could be used to represent the school
 * Use assessment info to help teacher plan their teaching
 * Could be used for teacher evaluation?
 * Using learning to improve life, planet, community & bring it back into the school
 * Building programs and connections
 * Student engagement, creating ‘buy-in’
 * Students need to feel comfortable in how they are asked to demonstrate their learning
 * Instruction should be adapted for the particular students/class, their interests & how they learn
 * Students learn in different ways and at different rates
 * ‘One size fits all’ doesn’t always work
 * Individualized learning ||