Essential Questions Related to the Course:
Assessment: Projects, tests, quizzes, oral assessments, performance
-based assessments, self-assessments, peer-assessments, group-assessments,
reflections, kinesthetic interpretations, and re-testings.
Content: Oceanography, Chemistry, Mt. Misery, Life Science: 5 kingdoms of
life, Changing Earth
Skills to be Taught:
Meeting Different Needs:
- Using techniques to increase the child’s metacognition -(a child’s
ability to understand how he/she learns)
- Using techniques that present material in a variety of formats (learning
styles, multiple intelligences, using varied groupings of individuals,
partners, small groups, whole class, whole house) with a variety of ways for
the student to respond
- Using fair and credible evaluations that assess the child in a myriad of
formats
- Using timing of assessments to the advantage of the child
- Offering extra help after school to enable all students to meet the
standards (re-teaching, re-testing, alternate assessments, modified
assessments)
- Providing parents with the tools to help their children ( house web site,
extensive use of homework planner as a communication device)
Resources and Material Used: