And finally, a simple list of questions that we will be using to evaluate your instructional design:
- Is the material new, different? Is the strategy innovative? Are both appropriate?
- How are students being challenged, stretched to think, perform, produce?
- What knowledge is new? What skills are the students learning or practicing? What related behaviors are they expected to demonstrate? Have they been prepared to deal with the knowledge/skills/behavior?
- What kind of interaction is visible? Who is interacting with whom?
- Who is generating the task/learning activity? What is the type of learning activity? (Renzuli I, II, or III)
- What is the general level of motivation, concentration, alacrity to perform/produce, perseverance, creativity, tolerance of ambiguity, of the students? (Habits of Mind)
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Got it.
Posted by Daniel Glenn on June 14th, 2013.
Got it as well.
Posted by Henry Mei on June 14th, 2013.
As this is my first year, in addition to requiring the students to evaluate their daily learning (and themselves), I think it will help me to end each session will a little self-evaluation. I normally do this at the end of every unit I teach; I do not mean “what does the data tell me,” but rather how do I feel the students responded to the lesson, the method, the topic, me? Who needs to be pushed or prodded, who needs to be reeled in?
Posted by Rebecca Potter on June 14th, 2013.
I will be combing through my curriculum with these fine teeth.
Posted by Jordan on June 17th, 2013.