Learning Environments-- Assessment & Community

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by Jenifer Davis3 views·Updated Jan 25, 2022
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Learning environments: -Assessment-centered -Community-centered

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  1. Hi guys,
  2. my name is Jennifer Davis and we are here
  3. to discuss the different types of learning environments.
  4. There's four different perspectives when it comes to learning environments.
  5. Those four are going to be knowledge centered,
  6. learner centered assessment centered and community centered.
  7. Now my partner is going to discuss with
  8. you the knowledge centered and learner centered perspectives.
  9. Today I will just discuss with you assessment centered and community centered
  10. First let's start with Assessment centered
  11. Assessment Center is focusing on feedback that you're giving
  12. to a person on reflection of their work.
  13. These types of assessments can be broken
  14. down into two main subcategories of assessment.
  15. We have formative assessment,
  16. some examples of formative assessment are going to be daily reflections.
  17. This allows the student to get feedback from
  18. their teachers um in the immediate day response,
  19. it also allows the student to grade the teacher on their learning experience.
  20. Um I would say that formative assessment is a little
  21. bit more work than its counterpart Summit of Assessment.
  22. I'll get to that later about discussing
  23. and describing what Summit of Assessment is,
  24. but let's focus on formative assessment.
  25. Um In my personal opinion, I think formative assessment gets
  26. um neglected more than it should. I do think that it is
  27. Um the stronger countersuit of the two.
  28. Um and that is because it allows you to
  29. get reflection um and feedback
  30. and your immediate work
  31. so you can relate it back to your new work and
  32. be stronger in those aspects that you may have been weakened.
  33. Um Now let's move forward to Summit of Assessment.
  34. Summit of Assessment is going to be a collaboration of exams based off of
  35. your yearlong of learning or units worth of learning.
  36. So for example,
  37. that would be state assessments like big exams such as the S A T A C T um for us,
  38. the sea best is a great example of that.
  39. Um it's going to be
  40. essentially just exams
  41. that are testing your knowledge of what you have
  42. learned throughout that entire unit or your long period.
  43. Now feedback we know is very important,
  44. but I think the main key about feedback is it needs to be continuous.
  45. It can't be a single drawn out scenario of um given
  46. feedback,
  47. it needs to be continuous and it needs to be relative to what the person is learning.
  48. Um and more importantly, I think effective teachers
  49. also allow students and give students the skills to learn how to self assess.
  50. I think self assessment is a very strong thing not only
  51. in learning and in the classroom but also an everyday life
  52. when you set goals for yourself.
  53. It's very important to be able to self reflect,
  54. be honest with yourself and give yourself personal feedback.
  55. I think that is a huge part in how you grow again,
  56. both in the classroom and outside of the classroom.
  57. Now let's move forward to community
  58. centered um perspective on learning environments.
  59. It is also very known that our students are not
  60. necessarily in the classroom as much as we wish and um
  61. I would like them to be
  62. Uh,
  63. the allotted time for a typical school day and
  64. a student's life only attributes to about 14%,
  65. which is very small in comparison to how much
  66. time they are spending outside of the classroom.
  67. Uh, this is a reference to the diagram from our reading.
  68. It is very much known that our students are only
  69. in the classroom for a very short amount of time.
  70. So with that being said,
  71. we need to be able to control our outside environment beyond the classroom.
  72. We need to be able to make sure that the community is
  73. tightly together so that the student can be
  74. successful both inside and outside of the classroom.
  75. Some of the examples of communities that we need to
  76. make sure are intertwined together and very tight knit would be
  77. our home atmosphere,
  78. our community centers, our after school programs, which would include sports,
  79. extracurricular activities, band, drama, all that such,
  80. all those programs need to be tightly intertwined together.
  81. Um, and of course our local businesses um also need to be tied into these
  82. to make sure that our students are successful.
  83. The key environment, my learning as family,
  84. if a student has a very strong family and home life, the odds are,
  85. they are going to have a very good opportunity in the classroom.
  86. We need to make sure that these family and
  87. home atmospheres are as strong as we possibly can and
  88. that means we need to be communicating with our
  89. parents of our students as much as we can,
  90. and as frequently as we can to make sure that our students are being
  91. held accountable to the same standards that they are
  92. inside the classroom and outside of the classroom.