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Introducing the Living in Christ Series 9Learning ExperiencesThe instruction and learning occur in this section. Each unit contains a similarprocess for instruction.Preassess Student Knowledge of the ConceptsEach unit opens with one or more options for preassessing what the studentsalready know about a topic. It is useful to know this information as you prepareto present new material.Preassessing the students’ knowledge can help you determine how to useyour time effectively throughout the unit. It is not worth your time to teach thestudents what they already know or to teach above their heads. Students learnmost effectively when new concepts build on what they already know. Moreoften, you have a mixed group knowledge-wise, which is good because thestudents can help one another.Unit 1 offers a more comprehensive questionnaire to help you see wherethe students are coming from religiously and in terms of knowledge and belief.This preassessment will help you make choices throughout the unit. Based onwhat you learn in your preassessment in unit 1, you may decide to spend moreor less time on given topics.Present the Final Performance Tasks to the StudentsA final performance task is a type of summary assessment, or a means ofdetermining what the students understand, know, and can do after a period ofinstruction such as a unit. (The unit test is also a summary assessment.)In addition to providing a unit test, we encourage you to assess (determine)student understanding of the four most important concepts in each unitby assigning one of the short projects called final performance tasks. Throughthese projects the students can demonstrate their understanding of the mainconcepts. This assignment allows you to have another snapshot of what thestudents understand.For example, the four understandings for unit 1 are: lives, the people in our lives, and creation. nityof believers, the Body of Christ.
10Jesus Christ: God’s Love Made VisibleThe handout “Final Performance Task Options for Unit 1” (Document #:TX001190) in the teacher guide outlines the assignment options. Note that forall the options, the students must show their understanding of these four concepts.The first option asks the students to create a Web site about God and forGod, the second asks them to create an ad campaign about God, and the thirdasks them to personally reflect on experiencing God through Jesus. Though atest might directly ask what the concepts mean, the performance tasks provideanother way to get a picture of what the students do and do not understand.We suggest that you explain the performance task options early in the unitso the students can focus on the knowledge and skills they can use for the finalperformance task they choose. This also helps to decrease the number of “Arewe learning anything today?” or “Why do we have to learn this?” questions bygiving the students the big picture of where they are headed and how they willget there.Provide Learning Experiences for the Students toDeepen Their Understanding of the Main ConceptsThis teacher guide uses the term learning experiences rather than activitiesto emphasize that much of what goes on in the classroom should contributeto student learning, such as explaining assignments; presenting new material;asking the students to work individually, in pairs, or in groups; testing the students;and asking them to present material to their peers.Each step in the teacher guide leads the students toward deeper understandingof the four key understandings of a unit. At times learning experiencesare grouped into a single step because they work toward the same goal. Atother times a step includes only one learning experience. If you have a betterway of achieving a step’s goal, by all means use it. However, if new vocabularyor content is introduced in a step you have chosen to skip, you may want to goover that material in some way or remove that material from the unit test.Throughout the steps, references are made to student book articles,resources at smp.org/LivinginChrist, and other Internet resources. Oftenthe teacher guide addresses the content in the student book early in theunit and then asks the students to uncover a deeper meaning with variouslearning experiences throughout. When applicable the book refers tosmp.org/LivinginChrist for resources at your fingertips.The goal of this course is for the students to gain a deeper understandingof the material. But what is understanding? The understanding we want thestudents to gain is multifaceted. Understanding encompasses several of the“facets of understanding,” used by Jay McTighe and Grant Wiggins in their bookUnderstanding by Design:We have developed a multifaceted view of what makesup a mature understanding, a six-sided view of theconcept. When we truly understand we
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