My goal for my kindergarten class is for the students to be able to make the sound of each letter of the alphabet. I would use the social cognitive theory by using modeling. I would show a picture of the letter and make the sound of the letter and say the letter, then the students would model me and do the same. After practice they would become more familiar with the sounds. After I feel the students have had enough practice I will personally take them one by one and show them the letter and have them make the sound. I will be able to tell who has mastered the sounds.This would be an informally assessed summative assessment. I can use an informally assess formative approach them just by seeing which students are actually saying the sounds by themselves and who knows it.Once i actually test them on this it will be a formally assessed summative assessment.
If you decide to do this I wouldn't show them the letters in the correct order whenever you pull them off to the side one by one. Some children might just remember the sound just from the order you show them. For example if you show them B first and they make the A sound then the child might just remember the A sound because it's the first letter of the alphabet. They might not actually know what the letter A looks like
ReplyDeleteI really like how your learning goal (a behavior) is aligned with the learning theory you chose to guide instruction (modeling).
ReplyDeleteDo you think your final assessments is also a performance assessment? Did you intend that this assessment is a case of imitating a behavior for you to observe--because I think that also aligns very well with both your learning goal and the theory driving instruction. Nice.