week+5

Please, read the following power point:

your assignment for this week includes two parts : __**first part**__ Watch the lecture “schools kill creativity” by Ken Robison in the website: [|schools kill creativity] and write one response about it (in the discussion board). In your response you may include answering the following questions: 1. Do you agree/disagree with Ken’s main argument about schools and creativity? 2. Do you think that having interdisciplinary approach in teaching social studies will encourage students’ creativity? Would you give an example for that? 3. Did this clip gives you another perspective about students’ assessment, and may be a different perspective about the relationship between students and teachers? Explain? 4. Explain one or two examples of assessment in social studies that encourage student’s imagination.

__**second part**__ In one geography class, fifth grade students received the following assignment: __ Write an essay describing how humans have adapted to the variety of climates in the world. Provide examples and details for each of the six climate regions to support your answer __. You need to prepare a rubric that you can use in the assessment of students’ work. After you finish, choose one of the two samples of students’ work, and evaluate this student performance based on your rubric (you can assess both samples if you want). After you finish write your reflection upon this experience in the wiki. In your reflection you may need to consider answering the following questions: 1. Was the rubric helpful, why and why not? 2. If you notice that the majority of students in your class share the same pattern of mistake (that you already found in this assessment). What would you do in order to prevent them from having the same mistake in the future? How would you change your planning or your instruction in the future based on the assessment results? Why? 3. As social studies teacher in the future, would you use the same essay test? Why and why not? 4. What kind of specific help you may consider in supporting student’s learning (based on your assessment results).

__**students' work samples**__


 * student's name || reflection ||
 * Tara Cowdrey || [[file:Week 5.doc]] ||
 * Drew Bartolacci || [[file:week 5.docx]] ||
 * Bryan Morrison || [[file:Morrison_Rubric&WriteUp_Week5.doc]] ||
 * Ryan Peterson || [[file:Peterson.Week5.docx]] ||
 * Cory May || [[file:TE 408 - GEO Lab - Assignment 5.docx]] ||
 * Adam kingston || [[file:Minor lab week 5.docx]] ||
 * Sarah Frazier || [[file:sarah frazier, week 5.doc]] ||
 * Tim Walker || [[file:Lab Assignment - Week 5.docx]] ||
 * Mallory Malloy || [[file:week 5.docx]] ||
 * Jody Stewart || [[file:Jody's Rubric Wk 5.doc]] ||
 * Nate Greening || [[file:greening_assignment 5.docx]] ||