Monitoring My GAME Plan Progress

Monitoring Your GAME Plan Progress

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A recent professional development event has given me added insight into my GAME plan.  Thinking about the importance of formative assessment and the many ways that formative assessment can be implemented and used has become an increasingly large focus of my classroom development aspirations.  

The practice of having students create work in Google Docs that can be revised and edited in an ongoing process will be an integral part of my classroom instructional activities next year.  Peer evaluation and student rubric generation is going to play an important role in the process.  I was greatly influenced by Dr. Sandra Wright’s work in her AP Economics course: https://sites.google.com/a/d125.org/wrightway-economics/home/formative-feedback-in-ap-econ.

• Do you need to modify your action plan?

It isn’t so much that my action plan needs to be modified, a more refined focus is evolving as to how I plan to implement inquiry based learning.  It isn’t enough to let students design their own projects, peer review and collaborative rubric generation will play an essential role in the new approach to teaching and learning.

• What have you learned so far?

The biggest takeaway that I see right now is how much more I need to be able to anticipate and plan to be able to make this new student centric approach to learning function in a smooth and effective fashion.  Years of teacher centered instruction and learning is difficult to let go.  Doing what you know how to do well feels like the right thing to do, but I know that to offer my students more I have to take risks and begin to learn new approaches.

• What new questions have arisen?

How can I best support my students in providing outcome feedback and cognitive feedback in a project and inquiry based learning environment that is collaborative, peer reviewed, and revision oriented?