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How do I ensure that students meet standards - and meet enough of them to make the effort worthwhile - in open-ended activities and projects?
Certainly, whole class discussions are a limited way to ensure that students are adequately meeting standards. However, formal and informal assessments are necessary in determining student comprehension of standards. To determine standard proficiencies for open-ended activities and for projects, student growth is evidenced through use of rubrics.

Module 5 Thoughts and Reflections Question 1


 * Diversity in the group- personality, ability, multi-cultural aspects, social issues, background knowledge
 * Giving up control
 * Younger children do not know how to show what they know
 * TIme constraints
 * Inabilty to read, write, and express verbally

Question 2
 * Teacher will place in groups when appropriate
 * pre-assessment to determine needs of students


 * __Module 6: Learning Modalities__**

Post your group's reponses to the these three statements below.
 * 1) List 5 facts that your shared during the discussion.
 * 2) The two intelligences that are targeted most in schools are logic-mathematical and linguistic.
 * 3) 29% of students are visual learners, 34% are audio learners, and 37% are kinesthetic learners.
 * 4) Preferences of learning styles are not always an area of strength for students.
 * 5) Learners who are right brained learn material in/through social context.
 * 6) Learners who are left brained are analytical.
 * 7) List 2 similarities between the three frameworks for understanding learning styles.
 * 8) Logical thinking is related to left brain learners through demonstrating deductive reasoning and mathematical thinking.
 * 9) List 2 differences between the three frameworks for understanding learning styles
 * 1) List 2 differences between the three frameworks for understanding learning styles

**Module 7: Facilitating with Technology** Before discussing your question, the group may want to view the Designing Effective Projects resource. If so, __go to www.intel.com/education/DesignProjects__. Then, click on **Project Design**, then on **Curriculum Framing Questions** and finally, click on **Effective Questioning Practices**.

__**Question**__ What are some ways that you can integrate the use of Curriculum-Framing Questions into your classroom and student projects?

Set up a risk-free environment for students so that they feel free to answer and/or ask. Predict where students are going with their answers, so that answer can lead you into the next question. "Big questions" lead to "Big answers" that are thought provoking for our students. Promote interaction between small groups where students learn from each other.