Analysis of Student Learning
The lessons I taught from the unit were about communities, past communities of Ashe County, communities of Roanoke, and communities of Jamestown. The student analysis I conducted was a circle map. The first lesson I did was a circle map to show what they knew about communities. A circle map is a thinking map. It can be used to show the students thinking and a teacher can use it as a type of assessment, sort of like a KWL. I gave each student a circle map for the four lessons I taught on different communities. Each student had to write what they knew about communities on their circle map. After I taught all of the lessons I gave the students back their circle maps. Using a different color, the students had to write what they knew about communities from the lessons I had taught them. The students put all kinds of things that were in my lessons about communities and what they had learned. The students included the Jamestown and Roanoke communities and how they were different from our community today. The students put things on their circle maps about their past community. They also put how their community is the same as it was years ago, for example the Dr. Pepper plant that was built sometime in the 1920’s is still in operation today. The students included how the families were different in their past community of Ashe County, and how the schools were different. The students also put more things that they had learned in general about communities. I could see what the children knew about communities before I started the lessons and after, because I had them write in a different color marker from when they first made their map to when I gave them the circle maps back to write on after I taught the lessons. Therefore, I could see what all the students had learned from my lessons. I feel like this was a good assessment to use with the students. The students learned about communities in the past and the present from the four lessons that I taught.
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