This week's readings in Understanding by Design were chapter 7: Thinking Like an Assessor and chapter 8: Criteria and Validity. The biggest aha moment for me while reading this week's chapters was that "teaching to the test" is not a bad thing. That is as long as the test is a valid assessment of true understanding. Why wouldn't I want to teach to true understanding. If my assessments are proof of true understandings and I teach to that, then all I am doing is teaching my students to understand! By creating the assessment before planning lessons, I give myself and my students a road map of where we are going, and why we are spending our valuable time on certain things.
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AuthorI am a middle school Family and Consumer Sciences teacher working on an education technology endorsement. Archives
November 2015
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