Mon, May 28, 2012 5:49 PM in SCCPSS- A is for Assessment
Mary Sams, thanks for your comment. I truly agree with you. Unfortunately, that is no the case for use. The quarterly assessments have been a great tool for assessing students' knowledge but we can't determine there's true learning from that assessment because we have nothing to compare it too. Now that we are moving to online assessment, I don't believe we will be able to see growth using those a...
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Fri, May 11, 2012 12:06 AM in SCCPSS- Concept Development
Jill, I have trouble as well agreeing with the author about the vocabulary as well. I believe the students need to know the vocabulary to make the necessary connections to concept development. How would them successful begin to understand a concept if they don’t have any background knowledge of “the big words” if we don’t introduce the vocabulary?
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Thu, May 10, 2012 11:54 PM in SCCPSS- Concept Development
Rebecca Day, if you read my posting, you will see that I, too, thought it was important to introduce the vocabulary before students understood the concepts. I thought learning the vocabulary will help them learn the concept; especially when the students use the vocabulary correctly in context as they summarize their learning.
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