The Formative Assesment

 This week in AEE 412 lab we were tasked with creating a lesson that highlighted a formative assessment. After spending time this summer talking with my Cooperating Teacher, Kelly Bier, I was excited to try out a tool that she uses often: Nearpod. 

I was able to use a Google Slides presentation I had prepared for my What is Companion Animal Science? for this nearpod. There was a bit of learning that needed to be done in order for this to be successful. It took me a few tries, but I eventually got my google account and nearpod account synced up and ready to go! I made sure I was meeting the ask this week in lab, and confirmed that my lesson included a formative assessment. According to Carnegie Mellon University this is a way to monitor student learning and identify their strengths and weaknesses in a low stakes way. 

This week's lab was a breath of fresh air compared to last weeks! Things went smoothly and I was happy to find success. After reflecting about this week's lab, I now know that I should add more variation to my slides, and give my students more time to be able to take notes. I had originally budgeted 30 minutes for this task in my lesson plan, and it was eye opening to get through it in 10 minutes. 





Going forward, I plan on changing up this lesson. I want to add more nearpod questions to be sure students are getting down the Main Ideas in their notes and spread out this information on more slides. I also will give more direction when it comes to the open ended questions, with guidelines of how many sentences I want, and that I want to see both opinion and use of vocabulary that was just introduced. Overall, this was a great lab!

Here's to Part of the Whole Tree, 

Ms. Holtry


Comments

  1. Killiann GeorgeOctober 2, 2022 at 12:16 PM

    Liz,
    I'm glad that you found success this week! I knew you would bounce back!! I think we all are still learning how long things will take. It's also important to note the difference in class size. Awesome job!

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  2. Morgan BearOctober 2, 2022 at 5:28 PM

    Liz, you really brought it back this week in lab and rocked it out. I can tell you are growing with each lab you teach. Keep it up!

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