Determining Impact on Learners Western
Governors University
Assessing Impact on Student Learning- A1.
Video 1: Using Stock Market Simulations to Work with Fractions and Decimals. The setting of the lesson is in a sixth-grade classroom. The class consists of nineteen gifted students. The content being taught to the students is math. The lesson includes gifted students converting fractions into decimals by using real world connections, in this case, the students are using stock markets from the New York Stock Exchange. The organization of students is in a social environment with students working in organized groups of four to five students.
Video 3: Developing the Skills to Do Scientific Inquiry Setting or Environment. This
lesson takes place in a general education Kindergarten classroom. The subject the
students are learning is science. The lesson is based on seed growth. The activity students are participating in is based on the growth of a seed. They are completing procedures and collecting data during the experiment. The organization of students is all student sitting on a rug with the teacher in front of them.
Video 4: Analyzing, Interpreting, and Judging Artworks Produced by the Works Progress Administration. The setting of this lesson is a general education fifth- grade classroom. The subject being taught is art in the classroom. The lesson is analyzing, interpreting, and judging artwork by the WPA, the Works Progress Administration. The teacher monitors the students by walking around the classroom to assist the students where he can. The organization of students is in an environment in the classroom with students working in small groups at tables.
A2a:
Eliciting and Interpreting Individual Students’ Thinking In video 4, “Analyzing, Interpreting, and Judging Artworks Produced by the Works
Progress Administration,” the teacher is monitoring the students in the
classroom by walking around the room to assist the students where needed. He
is also