Assessment

The main form of assessment that will be used is by having each student complete a KWL chart for the various lessons. The lessons I am creating are more geared towards gaining the necessary background knowledge of the time period in which the book being used for the unit takes place. The KWL charts will focus on the Civil Rights Movement and various aspects of the time in which this took place in the book. Seeing what the each student learned after completing each lesson will help me to evaluate if they learned what was hoped from each. The other forms of evaluation will be from grading their presentations with a rubric and evaluating their answers they put for the guided learning sheets and comparison sheet. Looking specifically how they researched the various topics to see that used sources appropriately.

Communication of student learning to the community will take place a few different ways. As the school librarian an article about the unit will be written for the school newsletter that is sent out to parents. At the staff meeting for the school a short presentation will be made showing what learning occurred and how effective it was. Also, mention of the collaboration process will be made. This will hopefully prompt other teachers to consider a collaboration with myself (the school librarian.)