Blog Prompt: For the unit that your Lesson Study lesson plan is situated in, what are your student outcomes (unit topic, understandings, knowledge, skills) and your end of unit assessment? How does your planned instruction & formative assessment for the lesson plan move your students toward that goal?
Student Outcomes: Students will be able to add, subtract, multiply, and divide real numbers. They'll learn how to simplify expressions with variables (real numbers). Which means they'll need to know how to work with fractions (reduce, reciprocate, etc..). I'm hoping at the end of this they won't be afraid to tackle problems with variables. Most of my students know how to add, subtract, multiply, and divide integers, and I'm hoping they see that it works the same for real numbers as well (and see that math builds on prior knowledge).
Day by day I'm teaching my students strategies on how to simplify these types of problems, but I have not focused on formative assessments yet. I feel terrible because the readings for this assignment reminded me of the importance of assessing DURING the unit not just after. Thus after teaching tomorrow's lesson I will set a day aside to give students plenty time to practice and reflect on their skills, etc.
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Chrisel, I am having the same challenges on building into my lesson, assessments that occur DURING the unit. I know we tend to resort to questions such as, "Do you understand?" or "Does anyone have any questions?" or "Fist to Five." but it is important to keep in mind that other assessments could be more useful and powerful.
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