Analyze Test Data

It seems that most students are below their reading level.  The proficient level of reading comprehension in the school is 39.39 the county is 45.66 and the state is 41.93.  The novice level is 27.09.  There were 203 students tested. The math proficient level for the school is 60.09 the county is 48.98 and the state is 41.94.  The novice level is 16.25.  There were 203 testeded in math.  In the science department the novice is 19.40.  The proficient level in the school is 60.19, the county is 49.43, and the state is 39.12.  In science there was 201 tested.  The social studies profiency in the novice is 21.50.  In the school proficient level is 41.00, the county is 39.04, and the state is 36.02.  The number of students who took this test in social studies was 200.  The learning need I would use is reading comprehension.  This helps with to construct a meaning behind reading.  Each student is assigned a group and section to read and discussion.  The students identify important facts, summarize these details, and share them with the class.  A good example for to help support this need is a form of Jigsaw grouping.            

• Organizing students in heterogeneous cooperative learning groups at least once a week has a significant effect on learning (Marzano, Pickering, & Pollock, 2001).
• Low-ability students perform worse when grouped in homogeneous ability groups (Kulik & Kulik, 1991, 1997; Lou et al, 1996).
• There may be no other instructional strategy that simultaneously achieves such diverse outcomes as cooperative grouping. The amount, generalizability, breadth, and applicability of the research on cooperative, competitive, and individualistic efforts provides considerable validation of the use of cooperative learning to achieve diverse outcomes, including achievement, time on task, motivation, transfer of learning, and other benefits (Cohen, 1994a; Johnson, 1970; Johnson & Johnson, 1974, 1978, 1989, 1999a, 2000; Kohn, 1992; Sharan, 1980; Slavin, 1977, 1991).
• Cooperative learning can be ineffective when support structures are not in place (Reder & Simon, 1997).

  Does cooperative learning improve low achieving students performance on chapter tests?
I would give a chapter test and see who needs improvement and what students performed at a mastery level.  In the next chapter I will use cooperative group learning.  I will put the mastery students in with the novice learning students.  I would divide the students and make sure they work in a heterogeneous cooperative learning groups.  

Lesson Plans

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My political cartoon

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Thinkaloud

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Evaluation checklist

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/02/09/apophis-asteroid-2036-video_n_820800.html

I found this page from a search engine.  I wanted to really find out about the asteroid named Apophis, and if is going to hit the Earth in 2036.  The domain of the page is .com.  I feel it lessens the page’s credibility.  Yes, the author is involved with the site.  This is an online news paper.  No credibility of schooling, but the author uses scientists to explain their theory.  Yes, the evidence is their but the information is blown out of proportion.  No affiliation was shown nor was there a political point of view.  The author is not the creator of the subject.  The author uses the information to explain about the subject.  The author presents a contact through Facebook and twitter.  I feel there is no validity for the author, but the credibility for the article is by the scientists of the article.  Yes there is contact information.  There is no bias thought, but the video image is wrong.  I feel the information is correct because the author uses Donald Yeomans head of NASA’s Near Earth Program to help the message.  The purpose of the page is clearly stated.  This seems to be a current event to convince you the subject is going to happen.  The audience is for anyone seeking info about the subject, many research enthusiasts.  Yes the tone of the article is what I expected.  The vocabulary fits the style for the author’s message.  The credibility for the current date is correct.  The dates are correct, but the subject matter is exaggerated in the video.  The reliability is there but only from the scientists in the article.  This is reliable information, but the author is not reliable.  Yes it is appropriate because I found incorrect information.  I would recommend this site, but not for the research.  There is a good video showing what the subject would do if the theory was correct.  I knew about the asteroid, but not the correct size or damage.

Obama on the Run

Driving question

Why would you use political cartoons to create a sense of humor in politics?

CSO's

SS.0.9.5.3 read and in interpret historical charts, tables, graphs, narratives, primary source documents, political cartoons and timelines and summarize their information.
SS.S.9.1
Citizenship Students will
• characterize and model good citizenship by building social networks of reciprocity and trustworthiness (Civic Dispositions).
• model a respect for symbols, ideas and concepts of the United States and analyze the roles of significant individuals (Respect For People, Events, and Symbols).
• develop and employ the civic skills necessary for effective citizenship by using criteria to make judgments, arrive at and defend positions and evaluate the validity of the positions or data (Evaluation Skills).
• develop the participatory skills of interacting, monitoring and influencing that are essential for informed, effective and responsible citizenship, including participation in civic life to shape public policy (Participatory Skills).
• recognize and communicate the responsibilities, privileges and rights of United States citizens (Civic Life).
SS.0.9.1.3 Analyze the causes of conflict and propose resolutions
SS.S.9.2
Civics Students will
• examine and analyze the purposes and basic principles of the United States government (Purposes of Government).
• outline and evaluate and analyze the origins and meaning of the principles, ideals and core democratic values expressed in the foundational documents of the United States (Ideals of United States Democracy).
• examine and distinguish the structure, function and responsibilities of governments and the allocation of power at the local, state and national levels (United States Government and Politics).
• analyze how the world is organized politically and compare the role and relationship of the United States to other nations and to world affairs (United States Government and World Affairs).
SS.O.9.5.1

examine the measure the contributions of art and literature throughout different historical periods.
SS.S.9.6
Reading Students will
• use the five reading components (phonemic awareness, phonics, background knowledge/vocabulary, high frequency word/fluency, comprehension, and writing) in their acquisition of social studies knowledge, insuring a foundation of college readiness in this genre.
• recognize main ideas and supporting details to locate basic facts (e.g. names, dates, events).
• distinguish relationships among people, ideas, and events.
• recognize cause-effect relationships in content passages.
• outline sequences of events.
• summarize events and ideas. Infer main idea or purpose of content.
• draw generalizations and conclusions about people, ideas and events.
• write and edit organized texts of various genres to insure that information is clearly understood.
 

Creativity

I understand how these types of questions could give a person statistical information about a specific learning style, but those question were off the wall.  I am a multimodal, i think everyone should be.  I will not develop a learning style until many years of experience in the field.  Yes, all the stategies would work for me.  My highest strategy this time was Aural.  I found out that it depends on how I was feeling that day is what strategy I would use.  I took the test, I think four times, and got different projections everytime.  I just don't think this questionare was accurate.

Instructional intervention

The title of the project is Making Meaning through Written Response.  The problem is to figure out and understand what students think about when they read.  Also find out if the student comprehends what they read.  The instructional intervention is using reading journals which is a form of note taking to developing a greater content.  The instructional intervention that is used is Summarizing and Note taking and.  The evidence that is presented the students who are lower level reading and writing need more of a push or critical questions in order for comprehension.  The better the student understands what they are reading, identify key information, and provide a summary that helps them keep the information.   When students revise their own note, the notes become more meaningful.   The data that is collected is from the students responding to their novel.  The instruction intervention is collecting by the teacher and reviewed to investigate which students are struggling and which are not.  The entries were analyzed into six categories.  Lower level readers were basic a little evidence of details to support their ideas, which were unclear.  Average readers were longer entries with higher level reader entries had ample literary analysis that included all the six categories.  They found that reading journals helped student by allowing them the opportunity to gain insight into their thinking, and provide instruction based upon this observation.