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Non-traditional tests, like Aaron Brock's 8th gr. history poster project, can help inner-city students build evaluative skills needed for new state assessments.
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Scooped by Beth Dichter |
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Beth Dichter's insight:
As the Common Core testing approaches and academic rigor is stressed it is great to have alternative ways to assess our students and that is teaching them skills that will be required in Common Core testing. This post provides a detailed look at how one teacher crafted a poster to assignment that required their students compare and contrast two leaders (unit Early American Leaders), exlaining whom they believed was the best leader and the worst leader, and providing a ranking for each level (explaining their ranking) as well as information from the text to support this. Many more details are provided in this post and you might also allow students to expand on the resources they utilized (as the Common Core will require that students look at more than one resource on a topic and then craft an answer to a problem). You might also have students create an infographic out of this work if you want to engage them online.
Could this approach also work for comparative poetry analysis and Literature study?