Asking Questions to Improve Learning. When you prepare for class, office hours, and help sessions, compose specific questions that you will ask your students (or that you anticipate they will ask you).
Doing so will help you increase student participation and encourage active learning. The strategies below will also help you formulate questions for exams and paper assignments. Active learning extends beyond the classroom. 53 Ways to Check for Understanding. Excellent Tool to Create Rubrics for Your Class. November, 2014 Rubistar is a great free web tool that teachers can use to create educational rubrics to use in class.
By definition, a rubric according to Geidi Andrade, is "a document that articulates the expectations for an assignment by listening the criteria, or what counts, and describing levels of quality from excellent to poor". As a teacher you can create rubrics and use them for a variety of purposes. These include: grading students assignments, providing focused feedback on works in progress, preparing lesson plans and many more. " Rubrics can teach as well as evaluate. Kill The Report Card. Created by Reid Wilson via someecards.com Report cards drive my teaching.
There, I said it. I know it’s the last thing we are supposed to say, because we strive so hard in international schools not to teach to the test. But, the truth is, it’s the elephant in the room that nobody wants to talk about for fear of being judged. It doesn’t really matter whether I’m teaching to a standardized test or a report card based on unrealistic curriculum frameworks, I’m still teaching to something. In all likelihood, 75% of these report cards are going to be looked at once by parents and never seen again.
24 Questions to Enhance Students Reflective and Critical Thinking Skills. August 31, 2014 Reflection is a fundamental skill from which is branched out all other thinking skills.
Using Exhibits as Assessment. 21 Ways to Check for Student Understanding. The ultimate goal of teaching is to do just that – teach, not stand up in the front of the room and talk.
But sometimes it’s easier to talk than to teach, as we all know, especially when we need to cover a lot of material in a short amount of time. We hope students will understand, if not now then before test time, and we keep our fingers crossed that their results will indicate we’ve done our job. Formative assessment with hexagons. Formative assessment is something I’ve been putting a lot more emphasis on over the past few years.
I’m so sick of just relying of end-of-topic exams to gauge what students have learnt. I want my students to continuously question how they are going and make changes to their learning accordingly. This is one of the reasons that my faculty has embarked on a Structured Observed Learning Outcomes (SOLO) journey this year. One of the ways that many teachers using SOLO use to assess student learning is with SOLO hexagons. SOLO hexagons involves the major concepts or ideas from a topic to be placed individually onto hexagons. Here’s a video showing one way of using the SOLO hexagons in a UK science class. Here’s an explanation of how to use SOLO hexagons from the SOLO guru, Pam Hooke.
I changed the hexagon activity slightly to suit the needs of my students. Here’s some samples of the hexagons my students made. Some things I noticed was that: Like this: Like Loading... Preparing Teachers for Deeper Learning - Getting Smart by Getting Smart Staff - Assessment, CCSS, Competency-based learning, deeper learning, education, learning, teachers. Today Digital Promise and Getting Smart released “Preparing Teachers for Deeper Learning: Competency-Based Teacher Preparation and Development.”
This white paper outlines the attributes of next-generation teacher preparation and makes recommendations to support the development of teacher preparation and development systems. Co-authored by Getting Smart’s Tom Vander Ark and Dr. Carri Schneider with Karen Cator, President and CEO of Digital Promise, the paper outlines how the role of teachers is changing amid broader shifts to personalized, blended, and deeper learning. Formative assessment strategies for success.
During a recent eSchool News webinar, experts revealed how formative assessment can support the curriculum A key takeaway was that formative assessment is a process, and not a “one moment in time” event.
How can formative assessment be used to support the curriculum? This was the subject of a recent webinar sponsored by SunGard K-12 Education, during which two experts revealed their strategies for success. Extending cultures of learning through visible thinking. Formative. Thought of the Day: Friday, November 29th, 2013 - PYP PE with Andy. RR-08-30. AssessmentPolicy. Curriculum - andysclassroom.com. Formative assessment. Formative. 14 Free Apps for Higher Order Thinking. Apps for higher order thinking can be a great push for your students to explain their thinking and create their own digital portfolio items.
Apps that focus on higher order thinking can help your students start using focused thought processes to address new questions, investigations, and basic HOTS skills. Each of these apps can be used to complement and execute Bloom’s Higher Order of Thinking framework, focusing on analyzing, evaluating, and creating. With these high order thinking apps, you can focus your students on: raising questions vital to discussiongathering and assessing information systematicallytesting conclusions against criteriathinking with an open mind about alternative theories and solutionscommunicating complex ideas effectively Please enable JavaScript to view the <a href=" onclick="__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', ' 'discussion by Sidelines.') Share this post with friends and colleagues: