Phase 1 of MIcro Lesson 1: Assessing Prior Knowledge.

This post is about how I would assess the prior knowledge of my students if I were teaching this in an actual eighth grade math class. Along with how I would assess their prior knowledge, I will also discuss what I would expect to learn from their pre-assessment result, and how this information would prove useful with deciding how to proceed with my lesson.

          If I were teaching this to a real class, assessment of prior knowledge would be assessed through a review session. I would use review games and sheets along with class discussions over the material that we last covered, and skills they would need to be able to accomplish our new objective.

While assessing students' prior knowledge, I would expect to learn what they have learned and understood overall so far as a class. While doing a class review it would be hard to assess each individual students comprehension. However I would expect to learn the average level of the class. 

        Learning the average knowledge and comprehension of the class would be useful because I need to make sure they understand the previous lessons before I move on to new ones. If the class is behind as a whole, and does not have the understanding that I believe they need, I would not move onto my new lesson. We would review the old material until I feel that they have shown me that they understand it. Moving on without this information would just put students farther behind. As a teacher I need to make sure I do everything thing in my power to ensure student understanding.