2. What effect did your teaching strategies have in terms of promoting student learning and keeping your students meaningfully engaged? Give some concrete examples to back up your explanation.
I wanted the students to participate when I asked them questions about inferencing and when we went through the example. All the students were participating in the story adventure with Bill as they had to answer the inferencing questions and then they were randomly chosen to explain …show more content…
Secondly, during the informal assessment of the students understanding on their whiteboards, the students struggled with the first slide as about only 1/3 of them put the right answer, but most of the students inferred well afterward. Thirdly, as I walked around during the investigation, I have seen both understanding and not getting the material as some of them were scaffolding each other (usually the lower reading level students were helped by their higher reading levels partners), or I had to guide the students’ thinking on a right track, when they had some wrong answers in their table.
4. How did you formally assess student learning? What were the results of your