Psychological rationale for elementary level

Skill was Parsed

In this exercise , children learn how to properly use descriptive words when describing themselves . Many lesson plans present students with colorful pictures to which they are supposed to apply descriptive words However , some of the pictures rely on children to draw conclusions about three dimensional factors impossible to derive from a two dimensional , for example , deep water . Other exercises might be confusing for their ambiguity . If a child is given a picture of a barking dog labeled the dog has a loud bark ' the child might become confused

as to what they are being asked to identify , the dog or the bark

Children typically believe themselves to be the center of their own worlds for this reason , learning the use of adjectives by applying them to themselves makes the process easier for the children to apply the correct words to the correct subject . This pre-existing ability to describe themselves should enable students to complete the exercise with relative ease , providing a foundation upon which to build other real-life applications of adjectives

Objective is Clear

Using an outline of the student 's hand to provide structure to the exercise makes the project relevant to the individual child by connecting it to him- or herself while at the same time creating a similar outcome for all students . No student is able to (or forced to achieve more than others , because with very rare exceptions , all children have only four fingers and a thumb on each hand . Because they have been describing themselves for their entire lives , the objective of the lesson should become readily apparent to the students with only minor instruction needed

Assessment Linked to Objective

Students are given multiple opportunities to accomplish the task provided to them . Each student can assess his or her own work by comparing it with what other students have accomplished in their own projects . The teacher can assess each student 's progress based upon the ease or difficulty with which the student has accomplished the task based on the number of tries that it takes to complete the task and the appropriateness of the descriptive words chosen

Mental Strategy , Process or Procedure

Each student will be guided into completing the entire task in a completely correct manner . This exercise , although simple to accomplish , uses several teaching strategies , since students are encouraged to use graphical tools (the handprints ) to encourage thinking skills through applied learning

Assessment Task is not Inert

Although there is some possibility that a student might simply wait to copy what other students have done , based on the component of sharing their result in a round robin , most students should comply with the requirement to write about themselves . The exercise is organized to give students definitive feedback as to how it applies to themselves both in the self-descriptive words and in the sentence that forces both a choice of an appropriate word and the application of that word

Varied Examples /Transfer of Learning

Students apply this process to thinking about...