FLASHNERJOURNAL2

Maggie Flashner EDC 452 - Dr. Adamy 2/9/09

Today my students had a second-step workshop. The goal of the workshop is to teach the students effective ways to deal with their peers in different situations. My students participate in the workshop every week with another third grade class. This week’s topic focused on how to act when a friend accuses you of doing something you did not do. The person running the workshop discussed the scenario using small posters. She would ask the two classes how they would react if they were being accused of something. Usually it is the same group of students who raise their hands to respond. The majority of the students do not take the workshops seriously. At the end of the workshop the teacher tries to assess what the students have learned. She poses questions relating to what they just talked about. As with the rest of the lesson, very few people respond to her questions. I think this is not a good way to assess what the group has learned. Because only a few students respond, all you are assessing is what those few students have learned. A way the teacher could assess her students better is by having students complete a written assignment. To make it more authentic, the students could apply what they just learned to a personal situation. This way the students are taking what they just learned and applying it to their own lives.

section 3