1. By doing an activity such as K-W-L you can find out about your students prior-knowledge. This method allows the teacher to see where each learner is. Every student will have different prior understanding of the subject you are about to teach.
2. When teachers establish anchors for a project they gain a sense of where students are beginning and what learning goals they need to work towards. This offers all students to become successful during the project and expands their opportunities.
3. By developing rubrics before projects you are able to asses progress of each students. Doing this with your students can help them better understand the criteria they will be grades on. Also this will allow you to provide feedback for the students to learn from project mistakes.
4. The topic Grades that matter relates to our classroom. Our teacher provides us with a rubric to know specific points we will be graded on throughout each project. Also we have been about to create a few of our own rubrics to see how it can be helpful in our own classroom someday.
I believe that anchors are very important, because they do allow for teachers to see if goals are being met. KWL is useful but there are other ways to encourage and engage. thank you.
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