Pre-assessment is very important since it will help us to differentiate instruction and meet all students’ needs. In high school is a very useful tool since the Science concepts are getting harder to understand and keep them in your mind. A quick review of concepts that should be at least heard on previous years will help teachers to know the class level and for students to know what the lesson will be about.
Pre- assessment should be handled carefully. High schoolers tend to take very seriously test and quizzes, so you have to be sure that they know that this won’t be taken into consideration for grading the unit, it will be just one tool to monitor progress.
For this unit, I create a quiz on kahoot!. This is a very useful tool that I can see it used by many teachers in the school I am currently working. I will give some pieces of papers to students and they will write down the answers. There are others apps that can collect the answers by internet, but in that cases students can have access to internet and look for the information, so the data collected by this assessment will be worthless.
The link to my pre-assessment for that lesson is: https://play.kahoot.it/#/k/a8949be3-580d-4478-b090-c78e04dfb0ef
This unit will have an assessment for almost each of the objectives. In all the lessons the formative assessment will be class work observation and group activities for each lesson. Summative assessment will be the final project.
Some of the formative assessment are:
- Make a glossary with the main concepts and definitions
- Short answers worksheets
- Group discussion
After analysing the pre-assessment results I will plan some differentiated activities. Let’s take the following results as the ones obtained on the kahoot! quiz:
- 5 students who answer all the questions correctly
- 12 students who have some knowledge about the content but need to develop thinking skills
- 5 students who have limited knowledge about the topic
In the following chart you can see some of the differentiated instructions that will be implemented according to the pre- assessment results. You can access clicking on the following link:
The students who answer all the questions correctly will have more responsibilities in the group work as well as the option to answer the extra question in the final test for the unit. This is a strategy to help students to reach higher marks and do not be so stressed on the test day.
Students who need to develop their thinking skills will be the responsibles of that part on the group project. They do not have to do all the work, just develop it and listen to peers' suggestions. They need to connect all the concepts they know by using these skills.
Finally, the students who are struggling with the concepts asked in the pre-assessment will be monitored closely by the homeroom teacher or the LS teacher in case it is neccessary. For that students will be very helpful the office hours, which are three after school blocks that teachers can solve students' doubts. His main responsibility during group work will be collect data. Doing this part of the project students can interact with group peers and ask questions about their doubts related with their misconceptions or lack of prior knowledge about the homeostasis.
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