Teaching Tips
January tips for student engagement and collaboration!
Roadmap for Assessment & Instruction
Formative Assessment
“Formative assessment is a planned, ongoing process used by all students and teachers during learning and teaching to elicit and use evidence of student learning to improve student understanding of intended disciplinary learning outcomes and support students to become self-directed learners.”CCSSO
Three Teaching Techniques to Try:
Give One, Get One Strategy
Pose a question or topic. Have students number their paper to 5. Instruct students to write 3 ideas/answers. Then they must talk to at least 2 more students to get 2 additional answers and give 2 of theirs "away".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2sX5OjX3kJY
Snowball Fight
Put a problem on the board or post a question. Ask students to answer it, but not to put their names on their papers. Then they wad up the paper and toss the "snowball" either in a box or to a designated spot. Then each student in the class gets one of the tossed snowballs. The teacher explains the problem/answers the question, etc., and asks students to look at the snowball they received. If their paper has a correct response, they should sit down. Then, while the teacher doesn't know "who" doesn't get it, the teacher does know quickly "how many" do not. See another way to use this technique in the video below.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iuu8_Ga63J8&t=1s
3-2-1 Reflection
Students list 3 main points, 2 ideas or things they found interesting, and 1 question related to the key concept or learning.
Teacher Toolkit: 3-2-1
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