Assessment of Learning

My student's success

I had each of the students e-mail me their glog, whether finished or not, so that I may assess what they are able to share about each planet. Unfortunately, I did not give them enough time to finish, so their glogs are incomplete. Nevertheless, I have two glogs that have a wide variety of information on their respective planets, including mass, relation to the rest of the solar system, matter, color and special information (such as moons and rings). It appears that many of my students did achieve the lesson goal of learning about one of our eight planets. In "tomorrow's" lesson they will finish this project and share it with their class so that every student can learn about every planet, which moves toward the state standard.

My teaching success
While reflecting upon my lesson, I feel that it went really well. I had fun, my students had fun and we all learned something. Since I had never done the play-dough activity before, I was not sure how long it would take. Unfortunately, this threw my lesson plan a little out of whack, time-wise. Thankfully, I know how important it is to be flexible as a teacher, and I feel like the lesson was still a success, even if it did not go how I had originally planned.

I took a feedback survey from my classmates that were my "students" for this lesson. Overall, they feel that this lesson was very engaging and that an actual fifth grade student would enjoy it. The shortfalls they mention refer to two things. One is time - I did not give them enough time to complete their glogs. In a "real" classroom, I would give students a second day to do this, as mentioned above. The other shortfall was with the technology. The technology was so new that I should have spent more time teaching how to use it, how to enter pictures and text on the glog, etc. Other than these, the feedback was quite positive. On a scale of one to ten, the lesson was 9.33 engaging. The technology was deemed useful by 100% of those surveyed. The play-dough part was a very effective introduction to the subject and those surveyed really enjoyed it. This is definitely a project I would do in an actual classroom.

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