C'est La Vie and Assessment

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In class this week we played a really neat interesting game! The game was called C'est La Vie and it was a game that gave you preexisting conditions that each individual person could not control. Some examples of this are the money that your family has, or if you are heterosexual or bisexual, or what social group you are in. These are all things that a student can not control; a student can not control if their parents are wealthy or poor. The whole point of the game was to make important decisions that would affect your life for the future. These decisions were easier to make for those in the higher classes that had more money. These families were better off when major life events happened, like a huge illness taking over. The whole point of the game was to survive and get wellness points and avoid debt and sickness. The individual who won the game was someone whose family had a lot of money. 

This game was such an eye-opener! It was so interesting to see how these conditions can really affect a child for the future. Especially when a child has no control over those certain conditions and they can make or break that child's future. This directly connects NCTCS 1 where it says teachers demonstrate leadership. Especially the point where teachers advocate for their students. As a future teacher, I am going to have to make sure that I am advocating for those students who may not come from wealthy families. 

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This week in class we discussed what assessment more in-depth. We really looked at students having the opportunity to use self-assessment within the classroom. This way the students are understanding what they can currently do well, what they are not able to do yet, and where to go from there. I think that is something that is so important to remember. This way, the student is invested and apart of the learning process. There is an old quote that states that everyone is their own worst critic. I believe that it is SO true. When the students are explaining what they believe they did wrong, it is an amazing opportunity for the teacher to either agree with the student that they are doing something wrong or give the student praise saying they are actually doing this correctly. This is a great way to make sure that the student and the teacher are on the exact same page. I think this is something that is so crucial in our future classrooms.

For my outside research, I found an article from Edutopia. Within this article, they shared a rubric to give to each individual student that shared with the students the standards, subject matter, and how they believed to be doing in the classroom. I believe that this could be so beneficial within my future classroom! I think that is something that every teacher can utilize. It is a really neat little tool that we can use that can easily show exactly where our students are at within the assignment.

https://www.edutopia.org/blog/self-assessment-inspires-learning-lori-desautels

FUTURE CLASSROOM

In my future classroom, I want to make sure that all my students feel comfortable. I do not want my students to feel like they can not be themselves in my classroom. I want to make sure that I am advocating for all of my students. I want each one of my students to have the belief that they can achieve anything in the world that they want to. I do not want my students to feel like they are not going to graduate high school because nobody else in their family has. I also want to make sure that my students are having the opportunity to assess themselves throughout the learning process. I want to make sure that each student understands how to assess themselves and how it can be beneficial to the learning process. I am so excited to continue to dig into assessment and learning more about how diversity can affect our classroom.