Week 6 Reflection

 Alignment: 

During this week, we discussed the importance of alignment. It is a way of keeping all components which include standards, curriculum, assessments, and instruction all able to be in line with each other to accomplish any goals in the classroom. If any of these components are out of line, these will all fail to work together. Teachers will struggle to teach the lesson or the students will struggle with assessing if the teacher struggles with the objectives and lessons. All these components need to world together in order to be successful in the classroom. I think this visual below accurately shows how students and teachers can be affected if the components are not aligned. 


Education systems need alignment for teaching and learning 21st century skills



Backward Design: 


This is a way of creating objectives and lesson plans by starting off thinking about the end goal of what you want your students to be able to do at the end of the learning process. You want to know the end goal then you will begin to find ways how you plan to assess. The final step is you will find ways to plan the learning instruction for the students. I feel like this would help me be a lot more efficient when creating lesson plans. I think I would be more reasonable with creating objectives because I would be working backward from the end goal of the standards. 


Backward Design Visualized

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  1. Dana VillellaOctober 4, 2022 at 11:04 AM

    Hey kelsi! I love the infographics you provided. It brings what we have learned together so nicely. It is important that you have outlined these two components because they greatly adhere to lesson planning.

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  2. Morgan FuchsOctober 7, 2022 at 5:05 AM

    Hi Kelsi! The layout of your blog is very nice! I like how you included visuals into your reflection to help catch the viewers attention. Overall, you did a very nice job!

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