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Students
Teaching Students:
The
scientists who responded to the open-ended
questions on our survey provided us with a tremendous
amount of information
about astronomy. I wanted several students to bring this information
into my classroom and teach my other students. I selected
5 students for this job.
The
students I selected were highly motivated and all showed an
interest in astronomy, something I wanted to further progress.
The students were given the following tasks to complete:
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Task
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Student
teachers had to read all of the open-ended
questions and responses from the survey and select
three that they would like to teach. I then sat down with these
students and we discussed their top choices. We collectivley
narrowed it down to the responses of one question that each
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Task
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Students
had to design their own grading rubric. I discussed with them
the goals I envisioned but I wanted them to determine their
own criteria by which I would grade them. After each student
determined how they wanted to be graded, they each submitted
their indiviualized rubric and I either approved it or sent
it back for changes. You can view an example of one student
teacher rubric. |
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Task
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Student
teachers selected their favorite response to their question.
They then *e-mailed follow-up questions to the scientist who
gave that original answer. I wanted to try to further involve
students with scientists, but on a much more personal scale.
You can view the students'
questions and the responses they received.
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*Students
were given epals.com
e-mail accounts for this part of the project.*
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Task
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Design
and construct a poster board that will serve as a teaching aid. |
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Task
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Submit
two multiple choice questions related to the information they
plan to teach. I then compiled the questions into a quiz
that was eventually given to the student audience after the
presentations. |
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Task
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Present
the information they learned to each of my four classes. |
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Task
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Individually
conference with me to reflect on the experience and determine
a project grade. |
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of student teachers teaching can be viewed on the Student
Teacher Photo Page. |
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