Decision making is an important skill to be learned by elementary school students. Indeed, it is a skill never learned by some adults. Today we reviewed the four steps for decision making:
1. Take your time; see the whole picture.
2. List the consequences; consider the alternatives.
3. Make the decision.
4. Take action.
To gain familiarity with EALRs and GLEs, we dove into the Washington State K-12 Health and Fitness Learning Standards, pulling out specific expectations for one grade level per small group. Then we split off into different small groups with one member from each grade level small group and jigsawed our findings onto posters. What an interesting way to delve deeply into subject matter and then share that material with others who delved deeply into other material!
We briefly investigated a Seamless Assessment Strategy, the 5Es: engage, explore, explain, elaborate, evaluate. Then we discussed Bloom's Taxonomy, ranking higher order thinking skills from low to high: knowledge, comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis, evaluation. These may serve as valuable tools when creating lesson plans.
Finally, we participated in two more wonderful microteaching lessons. We enacted emergency situations as third graders and learned about strangers as first graders. Both lessons highlighted the importance of using age-appropriate language and activities.
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