Assessment and Community Centered Environments

So for this presentation,

we're going to be breaking down two of the learning environments that are inside of

what we know to be the design of learning environments.

So it's known that Children today need to be able to understand

um their state of knowledge and as well how to build on it, but in order to do so

kids today need to be able to know how to reflect on what they know

and also assess what they know in order to find ways to improve and um

start increasing in their ability to learn and their ability to um you know,

gain feedback and etcetera and how to reciprocate feedback,

turning it into improving and back and forth.

So for my presentation

we are going to highlight assessment

centered environments and community centered environments

um to start off with, we are going to go with assessment centered environment.

So it says that the key principle provides opportunities for comments

and correcting curriculum to ensure that it needs students learning goals.

So what this means, like we were talking about

it, kind of within the four learning environments that we have.

This one highlights and its main point is to be able to provide

that

um

Children with the ability

and the opportunities to

um gained feedback and gain comments from peers and from teachers,

educators and be able to grow that ability to correct

um what they know and the curriculum that they're gaining

to ensure that it meets their needs and also for um teachers too,

see how a child is reciprocating

and understanding the information and how a teacher can

um correct the curriculum or the lesson plans to better

fit the needs of that child and their learning goals.

And so there are

two assessment centered environments that we that was said on the

on the paper, on the reading that we did,

One was formative and the second was some motive,

so informative.

It says that the assessment within school

settings that help improve teaching and learning.

So the two

um

the two examples that it gave were portfolios and self assessments, so portfolios,

it's you know, um when you are provided with a whole bunch of different materials.

Homeworks

um works that you collect from a child and you're able to look at it and assess what

they are able to do,

what they're capable of doing and seeing from there how you

can improve their work and how you can improve your teaching

in order for a child to succeed

in the school environment.

Also, self assessments,

this can be um a teacher reflecting on the lesson plan or the day

and seeing what went wrong,

what went great and what you can do to better it for the

next time to ensure that a child is more on your page.

Um

And so we also go with some motive

which let me

make it bigger. So we can see

it assesses the student's learning by measurement. So what that means is it is the

kind of like the portfolio where you um take graded tests, homework worksheets

and all of those fun things and you just write small feedback

on the papers for either you or the child to look at

and it's more measuring

um

it's grading or measuring what the child

did well and

as well either what they did,

we can say wrong or what they can improve on.

So um here I added also from the reading, the

um

The figure 6.1

perspectives on learning environments. It kind of shows

that learning center knowledge centered and assessment centered,

they all do really go hand in hand,

but also we have community centered which is

around all of them that really shows that

community is actually a very important part of

um a child's environment which leads us to community centered environments.

So

um the

main point or the main I guess explanation or definition that I got from,

it was learning from one another to gain improvement and growth.

So this is

um

the examples provided,

it was in class at the school through peers through teachers

and also it's said that one of the biggest factors is

the outside ecological

system, so

it can be,

it can be families, it could be businesses, um you know, social media,

um friend groups,

um anything that you can think of that really the child interacts with and um

where they are

being able to

get different um input and different feedbacks and where

they're learning from when they aren't at school.

I also liked this

figure,

it shows that only Children only spend 14% of

their time in school and then 33% sleeping and

um

53% at home and in the community. So it does show that

school is only a very small part

of their learning environment and so home and community areas,

it is

almost more important that they get um

a good stable area for them to learn in

because it is a big factor in gaining improvement and gaining that growth.

So here um it says learning from other

practices can assist on improving one's own practices.

So this goes hand in hand with fears and stuff. So a child can see how another

um

another student or a teacher can see how another teacher

does

there

teaching or does their teaching styles

see their ways of doing things and doing. So they're able to

reflect on how they do something or

how

they are able to

do the work or their teaching style and they're able to either

like how they do it or they can change or alter it too

better their ways and seeing how this other teacher,

this other student was having possibly a better outcome.

So there was an example versus the chinese and the american practices.

It said that in um sorry, japanese, the japanese, what they do is they,

they love reflecting on what child did wrong or what a child um

had incorrect and really pointing that out with peers and being able

to really reflect on it and seeing what they can do better

to improve and to gain that growth in their education or in whatever they're doing.

And it said in american practices that's not as seen, you know,

doing something wrong, it's seen as

not very good, I guess, you can say,

and it says that american practices possibly we can learn from the japanese and

really helped the kids reflect on what they did wrong and really going through it and

into detail

and possibly,

you know,

um really just learning from it and growing from it and seeing

next time what we can do to make it right or what we can do to improve

on it.

Um lastly, I'm really just going to leave with this quote that I really liked that

Barth had put inside of the

paper, has said,

the relationship among adults who live in a school has more to do with the character

and quality of the school and with the

accomplishments of the students than any other factor.

So

it's kind of at least how I took it. It just says that even though we are

providing

um materials and we're providing all of these resources

for students to learn one of the most important

um factors for a child to grow and really gain

that quality time in school is really the

relationships whether it be with the adults,

the teachers

who are really

there to help them or even just their peers.

Um

When you are able to

working really on relationships, you're able to build that sense of community

that is able to help you get from here and really grow

too.

Um, the best version of yourself, I guess, you can say,

um overall I know here we aren't covering um the

um knowledge center or the learner centered, but um,

these two

assessment centered and community centers are definitely a

big factor in designing the learning environments and

really all of them very well go hand in hand

and

really help the child be the best version of themselves.

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