- I would say that my classroom is much more teacher centered than student centered. I have attempted to make more student centered lessons over the years. When I create lessons that are student centered, the students retain much more information.
I was able to identify more than one authentic assessment to measure mastery of a single concept lesson when I …
- My students have been involved with a reality check in which they attend an event at which they have to make real-life decisions. The students are given a life status (married, single, children, no children), they have a preselected career that has an annual income attached to it. Based on knowledge gained in class, the students must make life decisions based on the life status and income. Some find they have to get a part-time job in order to pay for their necessities and some find they have to get a part-time job in order to pay for their wants. After the event I am able to look at their paperwork and their checkbook register to see how successful they were at budgeting, making life choices, and balancing a checkbook.
The rubric I created for my lesson clearly defined expectations and scoring for the lesson so that my students could …
- understand what was expected of them. The rubric also told the students what they were required to do to receive full points, partial points or no points. The rubrics are very clear and to the point and leave little room for subjectivity.
While working on this module I had success/difficulty while doing something new involving …
- I am still struggling a bit while trying to make lessons more student centered. I find it difficult to break out teacher centered instruction when that has been the technique used when I have been a student. I also find it difficult because student centered instruction was not heavily stressed when I was an undergrad.
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