Teach-Now Module 5 Activity 3

Module 5 Unit 2 Activity 1: Assessing Project-Based Learning  Project Title: Lifting Our Voices Project Objective:  Students deliver a speech on a current political issue to stakeholders and produce an online/multimedia adaptation of the speech. ( "Lifting Our Voices: MyPBLWorks") Subjects/Grade Level/Project Timeline:  English/Social Studies Grade 10-12  1/2 Unit duration (1 week) Project Idea:  In this project, students examine political speeches and propaganda that were historically effective in shifting societal perceptions on major social issues (civil rights, women’s rights,workers’ rights, etc.). Student teams select a current political issue (local, state, federal) to investigate and engage with their  peers in a  Structured Academic Controversy  to develop their ideas on the topic. Individual students use what they learn about rhetorical devices, argumentation, and the issue at hand to write and present a ...

For this assignment, we were asked to design some formative Assessments. Before going into the assignment itself, I want to answer to questions: 1) What different forms of assessment exist? There are primarily two types of assessments we, as teachers, can use. The first is formative assessment. Formative assessment typically is used to measure the process of learning during or over an instructional period. Formative assessments can be quizzes, games, activities, projects, presentations, or even thinking routines. While summative assessment is used to measure a student’s learning at the end of a Unit and what a student has learned throughout a course. We can think of them as exams, reports, papers, or end of term projects (Zook). 2) Why is assessment and feedback critical to a learners’ achievement? Assessment is important to useful to teachers as it allows us to see and measure student progress. Assessments tell us how closely students are to having mastered curriculum ...