Assessing and Evaluating Students' Learning Blog post #4

The chapter from this reading was all about helping your students learn how to evaluate what they read and also learning how to evaluate your students' learning. A student teacher, Heidi, had some goals for her students: "to help them learn to use freewriting and journaling as a means of engaging with texts and grappling with characters' motivations" (224). She talks about wanting her students to have fun with reading and writing. There are ways to approach writing and reading in the right way especially through the main activities that she believes in: journaling and freewriting.
Heidi also wanted her students to think about the text they read. What they would do if they were in a specific characters' position and what factors would influence their decision.

This chapter also talks about the different notions of learning literature. Why is it important? What does it mean to learn literature? (225). The text says it all depends on what kind of "assessment tools" you will use when you are evaluating your students. It refers to tests, quizzes, worksheets as ways to assess your students' knowledge. There is also the importance of having "knowing that" aspect of learning literature. If your students can tell the different between certain aspects of literature. For example, first person and third person.

I like what this chapter had to offer overall. This chapter stresses the importance of if your students know how important learning is but also that the teacher knows what they are looking for when they evaluate their students too. It is the job of student and teacher to help each other our in the education process of learning.