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By: Brittany Weaver

What are graphic organizers?
A graphic organizer is a visual display that demonstrates relationships between facts, concepts, or ideas.

How and when is it used in the classroom?
They help students organize their thoughts and ideas for answering questions, functions as a pre-writing tool for essays, and provides a visual display of information. Students use graphic organizers after reading a book to organize the plot, they use it when comparing and contrasting topics or determining similarities and differences, and they can be used to show the cause and effect of things they're learning.

What resources are available?

https://k12teacherstaffdevelopment.com/tlb/why-use-graphic-organizers-in-the-classroom/

http://www.theteachertoolkit.com/index.php/tool/graphic-organizers

https://www.teachervision.com/top-10-most-popular-graphic-organizers

In what ways can it be used to assess knowledge, reasoning, skills, and product targets?

Graphic organizers increases student engagement by providing hands on learning. It also contributes to student's cognitive skills such as brainstorming, generating ideas, and critical analysis and reflection can be developed.

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By: Willie Cook

What are kinesthetic assessments?

These examples of the formative assessment process require students to incorporate movement to demonstrate their understanding of a topic or concept.

How and when is it used in the classroom?
Kinesthetic assessments can be used in the core content classrooms to furnish teachers with insight into their students' understandings and misconceptions concerning a concept. Example: students can give feedback as to how they comprehend.

Math grafting example

Debate circles

What resources are available?
http://www.ehow.com/list_7793126_ideas-learning-through-movement-classroom.html
Persuasive Writing Lesson.docx

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In what ways can it be used to assess knowledge, reasoning, skills, and product targets?
A teacher can gauge a students progress by monitoring how he increased over time in motor skill abilities.

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By: Vanessa Boone & Barbara Bass

What are practice presentations? -Student presentations given days before final presentation.
-Practice through peer review in which students can improve their skills and become familiar with content.

How/when is it used in the classroom?
-It is used in the classroom to improve presentation skills- students give their presentations with their peers evaluating them on set rubric criteria. They comment on positive things about the presentation as well as things that could be improved.
-Students present through their presentations to their audience or peers. Next, they are evaluated based on their performance according to a rubric. Practice should take place a few days before the final presentation is due.

What resources are available?
-There are resources available on presentation tips, how to make presentations, different presentation softwares, activities to include during presentations, and overall effective communicating skills.
-Feedback is given on a T-Chart. The left side is used for positive comments while the right column is used for improvement.

https://www.wikihow.com/Do-a-Presentation-in-Class

https://www.edutopia.org/blog/8-tips-classroom-presentation-jason-cranford-teague

In what ways can it be used to assess knowledge, reasoning, skills, and product targets?
-The teacher can gauge the student's understanding by viewing their practice presentation, viewing their final presentation, and comparing the two. If a student gains more knowledge about their presentation topic, it will show to the instructor during their final presentation. If a student is not very successful during their practice presentation, the teacher can adjust their instruction to resolve any student misconceptions.
-Practice Presentations can be used to assess knowledge through feedback based on the quality of the presentation. One can see where they need to improve to make preventative measures for when they finally present. Reasoning, skills, and product knowledge can be assessed through the objectives or main goals and how the presenter explains critical concepts. The presenter may also adjust instruction to address the misconceptions found by the peers or audience.