Week+8+Questions

Week 8 Review Questions EDUC 341 Dr. Kevin Pyatt 17 NOV 2008

**DUE ON 18 NOV 2008 BY 11:59 PM** 1. An example of an instructional game  that I might be able to use in my special education classroom would be Cash Flow for Kids by the Rich Dad Company. This game teaches kids how to properly manage and invest their money. Assessment can be determined by how the children play.

2. Some modifications that I might be able to make to the inquiry rubric to be able to use in my classroom are  being sure that the students needs are being met by the inquiry based/problem based learning mathods.

3. Some ideas and examples regarding assessment in my classroom and mastery learning and and/or  criterion-referenced examination would be exams answered in form of essay question and response. I have been told by many university professors and my coop teacher that, though this is the most difficult to grade. This is the best and most effective way to assess their knowledge of the given subject.

I would differentiate assessment in my classroom to meet student needs by doing what I could that was necessary to help the individual students. One example would be: oral examinations for those who had difficulty reading.   How I might assess learning in an inquiry activity specific to my teaching context: same way – having student write answers to inquiry based assignments.

4. How might the case study be approached in your classroom context? Give examples. Find at least one example of case study for your classroom.

 What case study?

5. What ideas and examples might you have regarding WebQuests as an inquiry approach for your classroom? Give at least one example of a WebQuest activity that could be used in your classroom (online and face to face)?  I would like students to ask questions to satisfy their curiosity when we’re studying a subject. For example: the Titanic. If I am doing a unit on the history of the Titanic and the book we’re reviewing does not answer something a student may want to know, I would direct them to look into WebQuest to see if their inquiry could be answered.

6. What inquiry activity are you planning to present and what journals and or educational resources were will be used to create the activity?  <span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">I am planning on using __inquiry-based__ __learning__ to review __Dales Cone of Experience__ to meet the __classroom learning goals__. The inquiry is for student to ask how they can use experiences listed in the cone (i.e. from reading/viewing a picture to watching a show to pretending to do the project to actually doing it) to meet the classroom learning goals, such as how to compare and contrast in great depth or how to design concepts for our creations.