Module 2 Reflection

• How can Curriculum-Framing Questions help support my learners' learning? CFQs help support my learner's learning by the outcomes and assessment standards they teach and then I see how the project idea fits and how they can challenge thinking with a Focus Question.
• How can I plan ongoing learner-centred assessment? I can plan ongoing learner-centered assessment by actively engaging my students in in the process of knowledge instruction. Students have to be engaged in projects and things of that sort.

Module 2 Key Points:

• Curriculum-Framing Questions encourage learners to use higher-order thinking skills, help learners fully understand essential concepts, and provide a structure for organizing factual information. Curriculum-Framing Questions consist of:
• Focus Questions, which are open-ended questions tied directly to a project or project and support investigation including higher order thinking.
• Content Questions, which are fact-based, concrete questions that have a narrow set of correct answers.
• Assessments for project-based projects should:
• Be embedded throughout the learning cycle
• Assess the important learning goals of the project
• Engage learners in assessment processes
• Use a variety of assessment strategies that:
• Gauge learner needs
• Encourage self-direction and collaboration
• Monitor progress
• Check for understanding and encourage metacognition
• Demonstrate understanding and skill

This module has helped me think about using assessments standards, CFQs, or formative assessment in new innovative ways. It explained in great detail formative and summative assessments which are really important. It explained how formative assessment were assessments that occurred before and during a project and summative assessments occurred at the end of a project.

This module explained why all of this things are important when introducing a new project and knowing how to assess your students throughout.