Phase 1 of Micro Lesson 2: Assessing Prior Knowledge

Assessing Prior Knowledge: If you were teaching this with the targeted grade level students

• How would prior experience have been assessed?
• What would you expect to learn from assessing your students' prior knowledge?
• How would this information be useful in the planning process?

If I were teaching this lesson to the targeted group, 2nd grade, I would assess my students prior knowledge through a discussion.This would be a fairly new idea to the class, depending on what grade they are in, and what they have learned so far. I would no be surprised to learn that their knowledge of the subject is not very extensive. It would be useful to know what they do or do not know about my topic before hand to see if I need to make modifications to make the lesson simpler or more challenging.