Two-Column Notes

Date:
7 Nov

Name:
Class/Subject:
Hailey Shields
EDTL 2760
MR Title(s): Preview Assignments
MR Source(s): Bower, B., Lobdell, J., and Owens, S. (2010). Preview assignment. Bring learning alive! Methods
to transform middle and high school social studies. Palo Alto, CA: Teachers Curriculum Institute, pp. 22-26.

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p.22

"The goal is to spark interest, activate prior

knowledge, tap a wide range of
intelligence, and prepare students to tackle
new concepts."

p.23

"There is no single formula for a good

preview assignment."

p.24

"Predicting: To foreshadow an upcoming

lesson, student predict what, why, how, or
when certain events might have occurred."

The purpose of Preview assignment is so that

the students will have a chance to gather an
idea of what the next topic or content is going
to be about. It is more of a sense of
subconscious preparation essentially.
The whole Preview assignment idea does not
have a strict standards of how it is supposed to
be presented. Because of this, this allows a
large variety of creativity on the teacher's part
so that they have chance to reach all type of
learning styles for thier students.
This subconscious preparation is essentially
how this prediction ties into the Preview
assignments. When the students have heads up
or some type of idea of what their next lesson is
going to be about, chances are they will be
more prepared, understand, and grasp the
material a lot quicker.

Connections to previous MR:

Preview assignments is very beneficial towards students. There are various way to go about it in order
to relate to every type of learning styles. If anything this will help the students prepare even more for
the upcoming content which is can tie in Authentic Instructions even more. These Preview assignments
can create high-order thinking or even be connected to the real world, which will only help the students

understand the material even more.