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Artifact
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Title
of Artifact: Culminating Card Activity
 Date:
_April, 2005 |
| DESCRIBE
ARTIFACT |
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This artifact is a culminating activity I developed for students
to reflect on the learning at their modules at the end of
the rotation. With this activity, students share with one
another what they learned during the course of completing
their most recent modular rotations. are able to restate what
they have learned, offering a greater chance for retention,
and also offering me a greater sense of what they truly learned.
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| ALIGNMENT
REFLECTION |
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Wisconsin
Teacher Standard Alignment |
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This
artifact primarily addresses Standard 4: Strategies. While
participating in the class Comprehension Connection,
this activity was an application of one of the strategies
discussed in getting students to share and reflect on what
they learned.
This
artifact secondarily addresses Standard 2: Development; Standard
Three: Diversity; Standard 6: Communication; and Standard
7: Planning. I developed a new strategy in helping students
communicate what they know. This is especially helpful to
students who are more verbal in expression. |
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UW-Platteville
School of Education Knowledge, Skill, Disposition Statement
Alignment |
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I
believe this artifacts best aligns with KSD3b: Uses Questioning
and Discussion Techniques. The activity specifically asks
students to pick from a grab bag of cards and answer the question
on the card as it relates to the technology module they just
completed. Students communicate with one another what they
learned.
This
alignment secondarily addresses the following KDS Standards:
1. KSD3c. Engages Students in Learning
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| PERSONAL
REFLECTION |
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What
I learned about teaching/learning from this experience: |
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I learned that there is much
value from informal discussion. This student activity is not
graded, it is simply a culminating activity to reinforce retention
of information. Accidentally, I found that the activity also
provided motivation to other students for learning those things
that were shared by others that were completing modules different
from their own. With this exercise in holding students accountable
for their work by having to share information in the end,
I stumbled upon a motivational exercise at the same time.
That was a welcomed unexpected result of the activity. |
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What
I learned about myself as an educator as a result of
this experience/artifact: |
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I learned that teachers are
not always the ones responsible for motivating students. Sometimes,
just by generated excitement of new concepts, students become
their own motivators for one another. Since first developing
this exercise nearly two years ago, I have become more of a
facilitator of learning than I was before. |
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