What kind of activities/projects, feedback, and assessments have been most useful to you in improving your understanding and performance in some non-academic life domain, like a hobby, spiritual growth, interpersonal relationships, etc.?  What kinds of activities/projects, feedback, and assessments were not helpful?  What activities/projects, feedback, and assessments have been most useful in improving your teaching?  What has not been helpful?

How can we apply these insights to the projects, feedback, and assessments we provide to learners?

You can write and share directly on our Padlet, or if you want, you can brainstorm and create a video to share on our Padlet.

Respond to the posts of at least 3 fellow participants in the course.

If you didn't already take a careful look at Sara Gamboa's model unit, do that now, and take note of the way the walkthrough is sequenced and how reflection is embedded in various ways throughout the unit.

Navigate to your folder in our shared Google Drive and open your unit template.

Please complete the following components associated with this module:

• Ongoing Formative Assessment (Revisit the ongoing formative assessments you brainstormed in Module 6 and add any new formative assessments you want to include in your unit plan.)

• Learner Reflection

• Summative Assessment (This might be your culminating project or an additional Summative Assessment. Your Summative Assessment should assess students' mastery of the selected standards for your unit plan. Also provide an assessment guide that can be used by learners, peers, you as the teacher, community members or anyone else who might review student work. This can be a rubric, checksheet, dual grading guide, holistic scoring guide, primary trait scoring guide, etc.)  You can build off your initial ASSESS activity from the Mapping Module, and the thinking you have done throughout this course about the mental model you are teaching and how it is best expressed in actual accomplishment.

• Additional Helpful Resources

Share your finished unit template in your Google folder.

Summative assessment considerations when teaching online - several great tips:

https://www.edutopia.org/article/summative-assessment-distance-learning?utm_source=Edutopia+Newsletter&utm_campaign=1ef0711954-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_052020_enews_summative&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f72e8cc8c4-1ef0711954-79241351

Getting students to engage with feedback as they learn - by showing vs. telling:

https://www.edutopia.org/article/getting-students-engage-feedback

Questions and ideas: How can learners share with each other, and teach each other in an online environment?  How can learners reflect on their work and be engaged in helping others reflect on their work? How can we use technology to help parents and other caregivers or community members help learners reflect on their learning and set new paths forward?

• Online portfolios with Keeper comments

• Running record of reflections, procedural feedback from self and others about one's work

• Have learners create how-to guides or how-to youtubes for next year's students, helping them to navigate the challenges you faced.

Other ideas for online assessment; providing feedback online:

https://us.corwin.com/en-us/nam/online-teaching-toolkit

Further reading:

If you’d like to read more, here are links to all of the books referenced in this guide: 

• Balance With Blended Learning by Catlin Tucker

• Blended Learning in Action by Catlin Tucker

• Blended Learning in Grades 4-12 by Catlin Tucker

• The Teacher Clarity Playbook by Douglas Fisher, Nancy Frey, Olivia Amador, and Joseph Assof

• #FormativeTech by Monica Burns

• How to Deal With Parents Who Are Angry, Troubled, Afraid, or Just Seem Crazy by Elaine K. McEwan-Adkins

• Energizing Brain Breaks by David Sladkey

• The Executive Function Guidebook by Roberta Strosnider and Valerie Saxton Sharpe

• The Movement and Technology Balance by Traci Lengel and Jenna Evans

• 100 Brain-Friendly Lessons for Unforgettable Teaching and Learning (9-12) by Marcia L. Tate