Assessment Plan

Geometry in the Plane

           Students will be assessed throughout the unit in various ways.  Each day, the teacher will observe students as they participate in activities as well as class discussions.  When students are working individually or in a small group, the teacher will walk around and listen to students’ thoughts and ideas as they discover new properties, formulas, and concepts.  Through listening to students, the teacher will be able to determine if students are gaining an understanding of concepts and learning what is expected.  In addition, homework assignments will be given each night.  Homework will be collected or discussed in class.  When homework is collected, it will be reviewed by the teacher and then returned the following day.  When homework is discussed, the teacher will ask for several volunteers to share their methods of solving problems as well as their solutions.  Furthermore, there will be five journal entries given to students throughout the unit.  All journal entries will be completed individually and reviewed by the teacher.  Journal entries are usually given the day after a topic is introduced to see if students have learned what is expected.  Finally, students will be given three quiz grades.  Quizzes will be given at the end of every week after two sections of the unit have been covered.  At the end of the first week, the teacher will collect a homework assignment and it will be counted as a quiz (students will be informed of this).  The following two weeks, students will be given a quiz to take in class.

            The unit objectives and the New Jersey Core Curriculum Content Standards will be met throughout the unit.  The unit is based upon Chapter 8 from the student’s textbook, which is called Passport to Mathematics.  The lesson activities, journal entries, homework assignments, as well as quizzes are carefully created and selected so that students are discovering and learning what is expected.  Many resources were used, specifically journal articles found about effective ways of teaching mathematical concepts to students.  Other math books as well as our cooperating teacher served as a guide to forming beneficial lessons that not only test procedural knowledge, but conceptual knowledge as well.

Forms of Assessment:

·        Classroom Activities

·        Class Discussion

·        Participation

·        Homework Assignments

·        Journal Entries

·        Quizzes   

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