Dave_Johnson_Journal2_Spring09

In preparation for a unit exam on angles and polygons, my cooperating teacher distributed a checklist that asked students to examine what they have learned. The checklist helps students to review whether or not they have mastered certain individual skills associated with the unit and each has “yes” or “no” as answers they can pick. Examples of these check points include “I can identify polygons”, “I can draw lines of symmetry”, and “I can tell if figures are similar, congruent, or neither”.

This checklist is designed to help students assess their own progress in studying. The cooperating teacher knows that the students will be heading to middle school next year and that they need to learn to use this skill of self-assessment. She is scaffolding good self-assessment techniques for them by giving them a study guide outlining what they should know while formatting it in a way that models what the students should be asking themselves when assessing whether or not they are ready for a test.