This instructional unit is designed for upper level high school students, grades 11-12th in the agricultural business course in the agricultural sales and marketing unit. Many of these students have very little knowledge about sales or marketing, except for the students who have been involved in sales or marketing with their SAE. This is a middle unit in the agricultural business course, in earlier units they will have covered the basic concepts that will help them to develop the skills that they will need to use in this unit and future units. Agricultural sales and marketing refers to the vocabulary, formulas, and steps that are involved with agricultural sales and marketing processes. The learning outcomes are for the students to be able …show more content…
My first assessment helps to achieve this by having the students do a simple but a to the point task that takes prior knowledge that they may have already and apply it to this and make a pro/con list and a list of what can be improved upon. It is testing their initial knowledge and understanding, which allows the teacher to see where they may need help or improvement. The informal formative assessment that I chose is having students work in pairs to assess how well each other pair of students is understanding the material. This allows the students to practice different ways so that they can better retain the information. This will help them to form a different way to allow the students to study these concepts. I think doing think-pair-share activities is a great way for students to get feedback from their fellow peers. The paper-pencil assessment I chose was to have the students complete 3 of the 4 essay prompts and 6 of the 10 short answer prompts. This helps the students to really think through these basics of agricultural business which puts this into perspective the importance and purpose of it. Finally, the performance assessment the students will be assessed on how well they can demonstrate and perform sales demonstration that will allow them to work through the aspects and concepts that we had been learning about in the