Towards the beginning one of my major goals was to develop a classroom that allows for all students to be successful. While I believe I have done well at the social and emotional side of setting up a positive environment for my students, I still need to work on delivering information in a multitude of different ways to reach as many students as possible. Something that my students have given me constant feedback on is my lack of summarizations of units and the lack of strong review sessions for the end unit summative assessments. Before I was giving only one to two days of review along with a review packet or a practice test. This led to my upper students and upper-middle students performing just find on the summative assessments but my lower-middle and lower students started to really struggle. As we move closer to finals week, our school does a week of finals where students only go to a few of their classes a day and those class periods are extended, I decided to take the next full week for a summarization of all the units we have gone over by creating formative assessment games via kahoots, creating review packets for each unit, and creating practice tests for each unit that we will complete the week before finals. Depending on how this plays out I think it would be better for my practice and for my students if I take more time to do summative reviews of each unit before jumping straight into the assessments. While this may take time from covering more material I think it will be beneficial in solidifying the knowledge of the material the students gain from each unit. We shall see how this plays out in the following two weeks.
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