Jillian Brimigion

Activity 3.1 Reflecting on Learning from Chapter 3

During the course of your study of this text, we recommend that you keep a learning

journal to track and reflect on some or all of the following:

 Thoughts and reactions in response to the text

o Tracking students progress

o Impact of sharing progress with students and families (can increase

progress and expectations)

o Learning target are helpful to teachers because it builds a road map

o Blooms taxonomy is important to incorporate. Good guideline for ensuring

material becomes gradually more challenging.

o Curriculum is important because it provides a guide for development. It

systematically provides learning targets and makes it clear what needs to

be supported in order for the student to meet the content standard

 What you are confused about and what you now understand that you didn’t

before

o I want to practice using reasoning targets

o I want to practice student friendly language

o I want to practice breaking down standards into student friendly language

 Questions you have now and answers to previous questions you have

discovered

o I learned how to graph information about student’s progress

 o What are activities that help students develop analysis, comparison,

classification, evaluation, and synthesis.

o Is there resources with activities already set up?

o How to I become more skilled at following the curriculum and assessing?

o How do I develop Pre-Assments? What kinds are there?

 Barriers that may need to be overcome in order to implement what the text is

teaching, along with possible solutions

o When writing lessons remember to include the procedure and Reasoning

Learning Targets

o Developing a documenting system to help me to keep track of goals and

students progress and teach and the same time

 Implementation activities you have tried along with observations, questions, and

possible revisions to what you did

o Summary activity above: teaching how to summarize

o When students are exposed to meet both knowledge and reasoning

targets they have better success with the task they are expected to

perform

o Self-reflection activity. Building in self reflection into lessons. Teaching

how to evaluate yourself.

 Changes in student attitudes, behaviors, and achievement that you believe are

attributable to what you are implementing as a result of your study

o student friendly language helps me identify what skills students need to

meet the goals I set

 o setting clear goals and sharing them with students is very important. I

want to start having weekly meeting with students where we can look at

their progress and the have an opportunity to self-reflect

 Your level of mastery of the chapter learning targets

o I have a good understanding of this chapters content