Data-Driven Instruction

I incorporated data-driven instruction into this unit by administering assessments along the way during the unit that informed my teaching. The pre-assessment that I administered prior to beginning the unit allowed me to gain an understanding of the level of knowledge my students had before I began to teach these concepts. The pre-assessment was a short questionnaire that students filled out the day before the unit began. I then administered formative assessments along the way to gauge how well students were understanding the content. One of these formative assessments was a SeeSaw activity for which students had to match artifacts from the past to their present picture. We had covered the material during class, so I wanted to see how well they could complete the assignment. I then used the data from the formative assessments to inform my teaching for the following day. At the end of the unit, I administered the same assessment as the pre-assessment as a post-assessment. Students increased by 12% by the end of the unit. If they had not increased, I would know what to reteach.

Social Studies Unit Plan

My social studies unit focused on the concepts of the past, present, and future. As a class, we learned about the past, the present, and the future. We had the opportunity to look at artifacts up close from the past and students created timelines and story necklaces to represent their own past, present, and future.

Here is a video of me teaching a lesson during my unit. This lesson introduces the story necklaces and how to make them according to the students' timelines.

This is the benchmark data that I have collected this semester. I use this data to create lesson plans for intervention and lessons to reteach specific focus areas. You can see specific progress for each student for each standard or progress monitoring assessment.