Learning & Assessment Skills
It is very important for high school juniors and seniors -- including students from a diversity of ethnic and cultural backgrounds -- to be immersed in exercises and scholarly challenges that help them gain mastery on the English Language. Whether they seek careers as surgeons or professional truck drivers, they should leave high school with language skills -- including pronunciation, comprehension, and the ability to apply the language -- that will be the foundation of their competencies when it comes to communication. What they learn and how they are able to apply their knowledge will be assessed in this lesson.
Assessment and Lesson Plan -- AP World Hinduism
This class focuses on Advanced Placement World Religion, but in its revised format it will incorporate learning assessment features that are part of the class work and course expectations. Students and instructors can gain from assessments; students gain because they need to believe they are accomplishing something of value, and instructors gain due to the feedback and other results that show up when proper assessment strategies are embraced.
Day 1 through Day 10: Review of Hinduism -- Beliefs and Rituals
Learning Outcomes
Students are expected to understand...
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