Teachers Notes Lesson 3
Teachers Notes
Introduction
Teacher should encourage students to think about their parents cars and the maintance they require. Have their parents cars ever broken down? What kinds of maintance do their parents do for their cars?
Maintaining your Electronic Portfolio
Teacher should focus on encouraging students to think about these questions and come up with their own answers. While students are working in groups, teacher should be walking around and monitoring each group. Teacher should make sure the group is focused and understands the questions. During discussion, teacher should prompt students to give the answers their groups came up with. Teacher should supplement student answers with those provided in notes.
What type of maintance does your EP need?
- You need to continue to add documents to your EP
- You need to continue to pose and answer self-reflective questions
- You may want to continue to update your About Me page as you feel necessary
How will you maintain your EP?
- Continue to add documents
- Pose and answer self-reflective questions
- Update About Me page
What is the teachers role in maintaining your EP?
- Continue to assign work which could be included in the EP
- Allow classtime to upload and reflect on new artifacts
- Pose self-reflective questions
- Conference with students about the EP and offer continuous feedback
- Give clear explainations about assessing individual EP's
What does self-reflection have to do with maintaining your EP?
- Self-reflection and self-assessment "are two of the most authentic skills students need to develop to successfully manage in the real world" (The Authentic Assessment Toolbox).
- The reflection in the EP's will focus on improvement, progress and effort (The Authentic Assessment Toolbox).
- Reflection is necessary if you plan to grow as a learner (Electronic Portfolio's).
How can self-reflection make you a better learner?
- Helps to identify strengths and weaknesses in different areas (The Authentic Assessment Toolbox).
- To identify changes learner has made over a period of time
- Allow learner to create and work towards learning goals
During self-reflection teacher should walk around and monitor student work. It is very important during this time that the teacher allow students to come up with their own answers to reflective questions. Teacher may prompt students with questions and/or statements to guide their thinking, but this is a critical activity to develop higher level thinking skills. Thus, the teachers role is very hands-off allowing children to reach their own reflective conclusions.