Sunday, September 28, 2014
After reading what many of you have responded to my recent blog posts, I dug a bit deeper into the Quizlet world and found it even more useful that I thought! I did a 5th grade Astronomy search to see what would come up and I was surprised and thrilled to see how many vocabulary sets were already posted on the site! There were even some posted by some of the teachers who work with the students in my school! Ha! I was very intrigued to see how similar my definitions were to the definitions that other educators use. Although the general definitions were similar, a lot of the language used was different. Some of the definitions were a lot more complicated and some were on the easier side. I wonder if definitions and language used is determined state by state or if it is by district. I know that I use the definitions that are given by NY State. Many times, though, I have to actually further define words that are in the definitions so that the 5th graders can better understand the word.
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Melissa,
ReplyDeleteThe times I've used quizlet I've also noticed that even if the terms were the same some of the language was always different. I'm not sure if it's determined by state or just different teachers using different terminology. I really like quizlet though,. It has always helped me if I was confused about something
Hi Melissa
ReplyDeleteThank you for sharing your findings. I think it is beneficial to see how other teachers define the same terminologies that you do, and see how they simplify it. I have been always a supporter of teachers exchange and sharing of ideas, strategies, and even tests.
Sammya
Its great that you can see, compare, and analyze the definitions of your work and the work of other teachers. It gives you the opportunity to see how other teachers are teaching information that you are trying to teach.
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