explain how the three different formative assessments; Think-Pair-Share, Peer-feedback, and Exit tickets can contribute to students’ ongoing learning.
Year 7 English Lesson – Identifying persuasive techniques and target audience in a print advertisement
Curriculum Standards
Interpreting, analysing, evaluating
Analyse and explain the ways text structures and language features shape meaning and vary according to audience and purpose (VCELY379)
Transition
In the previous lessons, students will have learned; what is an advertisement, a range of persuasive techniques, and how to identify a target audience. In this lesson students will need to identify persuasive techniques and a target audience in print advertisements.
Learning Intentions:
- To identify the target audience and persuasive techniques in a print advertisement
- To explain how persuasive techniques have been used to persuade the target audience
Success Criteria:
- Students should be able to identify the target audience and persuasive techniques in a print advertisement
- Students should be able to explain how persuasive techniques have been used to persuade the target audience.
Formative assessments (write a brief overview of formative assessment)
What are formative assessments? Formative assessments are….
Assessments should engineer learning environments to create student engagement and to ensure that the learning is proceeding in the intended direction (Wiliam, 2011)
Formative assessments is the data which is used to monitor the ongoing learning of students (Marsh, 2014)
Wiliam, D. (2011). Embedded Formative Assessment – practical strategies and tools for K-12 teachers (US ed). Solution Tree.
Marsh, Colin J. & Clarke, Maggie. & Pittaway, Sharon. (2014). Marsh’s becoming a teacher. Frenchs Forest, NSW : Pearson Australia
(Summary of assignment)
Using the Year 7 lesson listed above, I will describe and explain how the three different formative assessments; Think-Pair-Share, Peer-feedback, and Exit tickets can contribute to students’ ongoing learning. Moreover, demonstrate their effectiveness in pedagogical practice.
Formative assessment 1
Think- Pair-Share
Description
“Think-Pair-Share” is an assessment tool that has been around for many years and became highly regarded in Higher Education in the 1980s(Wiliam & Leahy, 2017). Think-Pair-Share is beneficial when getting students to cooperatively work together to think, talk, and articulate their own interpretations of a topic or concept.
The structure of Think- Pair- Share
- The teacher tailors a question related to a topic/concept that students will be learning about in the lesson
- Students are given time to think about their responses to the question
- In pairs, students discuss and share their opinions
- Teacher calls on students to share theirs or their peer’s response
(Wiliam & Leahy, 2017).
The application of Think-Pair-share to Year 7 English Class
Think-Pair-Share would be a useful tool to assess students understanding of persuasive technique and target audiences while proceeding to talk about print advertisements. For example, the teacher may pose the question, “Is print media the most effective form of advertising?” In the time given to think about this questions, students should begin to recall their understanding of what is an advertisement, the range of persuasive techniques that may be evident in print media and how they effectively target an audience. Students will the
Formative assessment 2
Peer Feedback
Formative assessment 3
Exit tickets
Bibliography
Wiliam, D., & Leahy, S. (2017). Embedded formative assessment (2nd ed.). Solution Tree Press.
