Deborah's Creative Curriculum Generator
with 3 areas of ideas to help teachers:
Assessments for Learning: Ideas for Determining & Exploring Prior Knowledge
Assessments as Learning: Ideas for Lessons & Practical Experiments
Assessments of Learning: Ideas for Evaluating Learning
Assessments for Learning: Ideas for Determining & Exploring Prior Knowledge
· Review previous final exams
· Diagnostic writing—short answer, essay answer
· Diagnostic quizzes: true/false, multiple choice, mix and match
· Discussion to ignite inquiry into new course
· Compiling students’ prior knowledge/prior work into group PowerPoint presentations
· Retrospective Storyboard demo’s of students’ prior knowledge
· Jeopardy Game: student or teacher designed questions and answers
· Trivia pursuit of prior knowledge
· Video review of prior knowledge—student generated
· Favourite Sources for learning: sharing texts/web sources/digital CD/DVD/pod casts
· Presenting students’ greatest successes from last course
· Predicting what prior knowledge is needed for new course
· Mock interview about prior knowledge and course expectations
· Blogging/scrap booking prior knowledge and course expectations
· Plotting prior knowledge and course expectations onto a graphic organizer
Assessments as Learning: Ideas for Lessons & Practical Experiments
· Providing Exemplars of best answers/best essays/best presentations
· Encouraging software support for generating ideas & writing
· Lectures & question period
· Seminars—round table with open discussion & interjection
· Debating teams
· Hands-on demonstrations, labs & experiments
· Filmed lessons & podcasts
· Peer tutoring/peer leadership of lesson
· Peer marking & feedback
· Researching topic—assigned specialization for shared knowledge & understanding
· Manipulatives & games: manual/handmade & SmartBoard
· Pre-testing and assessing best/worst answers
· Staging/re-enacting/human animation
· Creating 3-D models
Assessments of Learning: Ideas for Evaluating Learning
· Text/book creation (students material) of correct answers/course content
· Testing: essay, short answer, multiple choice, true/false
· Labs, experiments, demo’s
· PowerPoint presentations—student creation
· Video and/or audio presentation—student creation
· Photo journals
· Interview/oral responses
· Mapping data into graphic organizers
· Crossword puzzles/find a word
· Staging/re-enacting/human animation
· Creating 3-D models
with 3 areas of ideas to help teachers:
Assessments for Learning: Ideas for Determining & Exploring Prior Knowledge
Assessments as Learning: Ideas for Lessons & Practical Experiments
Assessments of Learning: Ideas for Evaluating Learning
Assessments for Learning: Ideas for Determining & Exploring Prior Knowledge
· Review previous final exams
· Diagnostic writing—short answer, essay answer
· Diagnostic quizzes: true/false, multiple choice, mix and match
· Discussion to ignite inquiry into new course
· Compiling students’ prior knowledge/prior work into group PowerPoint presentations
· Retrospective Storyboard demo’s of students’ prior knowledge
· Jeopardy Game: student or teacher designed questions and answers
· Trivia pursuit of prior knowledge
· Video review of prior knowledge—student generated
· Favourite Sources for learning: sharing texts/web sources/digital CD/DVD/pod casts
· Presenting students’ greatest successes from last course
· Predicting what prior knowledge is needed for new course
· Mock interview about prior knowledge and course expectations
· Blogging/scrap booking prior knowledge and course expectations
· Plotting prior knowledge and course expectations onto a graphic organizer
Assessments as Learning: Ideas for Lessons & Practical Experiments
· Providing Exemplars of best answers/best essays/best presentations
· Encouraging software support for generating ideas & writing
· Lectures & question period
· Seminars—round table with open discussion & interjection
· Debating teams
· Hands-on demonstrations, labs & experiments
· Filmed lessons & podcasts
· Peer tutoring/peer leadership of lesson
· Peer marking & feedback
· Researching topic—assigned specialization for shared knowledge & understanding
· Manipulatives & games: manual/handmade & SmartBoard
· Pre-testing and assessing best/worst answers
· Staging/re-enacting/human animation
· Creating 3-D models
Assessments of Learning: Ideas for Evaluating Learning
· Text/book creation (students material) of correct answers/course content
· Testing: essay, short answer, multiple choice, true/false
· Labs, experiments, demo’s
· PowerPoint presentations—student creation
· Video and/or audio presentation—student creation
· Photo journals
· Interview/oral responses
· Mapping data into graphic organizers
· Crossword puzzles/find a word
· Staging/re-enacting/human animation
· Creating 3-D models