Frankly, I can say I learned too many things about developing a curriculum for high ability learners. Since I have to choose two, creating authentic, alternative assessments and higher order thinking skills would be my choices. We are working with gifted students which need everything differently than usual. Creating authentic and alternative assessments for them one of the most significant parts of teaching gifted. During this summer, I learned really important things about authentic and alternative assessments. How can we do it? What are the ways to do it? What are some examples of it? Many more questions like these answered at this semester for me. I am 24 and I am studying since I was 6. All these 18-year exams, papers, projects were
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in gifted education. Maybe I will go back Turkey and teach on the faculty or maybe I will stay in the US and teach somewhere. One thing that I am sure for both ways, I will use authentic and alternative assessments. Reflections like you use, student portfolios, self-assessments, differentiated products will be my essential tools for evaluation. Second important learning of this summer for me was higher-order thinking skills. During my undergraduate study at the Istanbul University, I heard the name of Bloom a lot. His taxonomy was the scariest thing for me, because of my instructor. I really like to play with words, using sophisticated words instead of naïve ones always my style of writing (in Turkish ). She was obsessed with the words that I used for my list. Whatever I wrote, she did not like it and she asked me to change. As a result, I got C e and I hate the Bloom’s …show more content…
However, things were different this time. We mainly focused revised taxonomies. Especially, Anderson and Krathwohl‘s revised taxonomy was just my taste. Using the verbs for each level to reflect the active process of thinking and putting meta-cognition as a part of evaluation section some pluses of this revised taxonomy. It also engages me to think creatively to find best words and sentences for each section. On the one hand teacher who do not like my words, sentences, on the other hand, taxonomy, which gave me choices to use sophisticated words. In short, I can say, that lesson changed my perspective for taxonomy. Paul’s wheel of reasoning template was another interesting tool for organizing higher order thinking skills. All the pieces of this template building like connections, relations between each other. It requires from student to think creatively and critically, and eventually, higher order thinking. This template would be one of my essential tools to develop those skills for students in my future teaching
in gifted education. Maybe I will go back Turkey and teach on the faculty or maybe I will stay in the US and teach somewhere. One thing that I am sure for both ways, I will use authentic and alternative assessments. Reflections like you use, student portfolios, self-assessments, differentiated products will be my essential tools for evaluation. Second important learning of this summer for me was higher-order thinking skills. During my undergraduate study at the Istanbul University, I heard the name of Bloom a lot. His taxonomy was the scariest thing for me, because of my instructor. I really like to play with words, using sophisticated words instead of naïve ones always my style of writing (in Turkish ). She was obsessed with the words that I used for my list. Whatever I wrote, she did not like it and she asked me to change. As a result, I got C e and I hate the Bloom’s …show more content…
However, things were different this time. We mainly focused revised taxonomies. Especially, Anderson and Krathwohl‘s revised taxonomy was just my taste. Using the verbs for each level to reflect the active process of thinking and putting meta-cognition as a part of evaluation section some pluses of this revised taxonomy. It also engages me to think creatively to find best words and sentences for each section. On the one hand teacher who do not like my words, sentences, on the other hand, taxonomy, which gave me choices to use sophisticated words. In short, I can say, that lesson changed my perspective for taxonomy. Paul’s wheel of reasoning template was another interesting tool for organizing higher order thinking skills. All the pieces of this template building like connections, relations between each other. It requires from student to think creatively and critically, and eventually, higher order thinking. This template would be one of my essential tools to develop those skills for students in my future teaching