3rd Observation: Pre-Assessment

March 2- Today we admistered our pre-assessment for our unit. Because our unit has three different focus areas--community jobs, wants and needs, and money--we wanted to an interactive assessment. So we divided the class into three stations that they were to work at. The first station was the money or identification of coins like a penny, nickel, dime, quarter; the second station was individual work--they had to draw a job they knew about or were familiar with; the third station was group work again and they worked with sorting picture cards that showed either a want or a need. From the results of this pre-assessment I noticed that the students' familiarity with the unit was somewhat satisfactory. That is, at the first station studetns were familiar with coins however they still need to work on how much each coin is worth. In terms of jobs, most of the students knew what jobs were but there were two students who thought a job was a task, like "cleaning my room," a student wrote on her paper. So we definetely need to work from there, introduce them that that particular task is indeed a job that has to be completed but also let them know that a job entails more than a task..etc etc. At the third station, the students knew the difference of a want and need, but there were still a couple of students who were confused with these terms. For example, T placed the barbie under the need category and when I asked her why she made that choice she said, "I love barbies so I need them" I think we definetely will have a great unit, hopefully a successful one and one of course that will be memorable to the students. I am looking forward to our first lesson next week.