It may be the first time these students have communicated to a teacher where they stand cognitively. Figure 1 shows the goal template that Trevor Collins, a high school history teacher in Grainger County, Tennessee, uses. Every day, each student fills in the date and the learning objectives Trevor provides. Students score themselves on their understanding of the topic—and their level of effort—both before and after the class.
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Trevor found that his students didn't pay attention when he simply wrote the day's goals on the board, but with the templates, they truly know their learning objective. Teachers sometimes worry that students won't accurately assess themselves. At first, students may inflate their scores, but they usually adjust their scoring when they realize the numbers are used to track their progress and signal their improvement.
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Comments like, "Everyone should be a 1 or a 2 today because I'm just introducing the topic" help. I think of such goal sheets as a "neuronal courtesy" that enables learners to ease into the lesson. Teachers are often pleasantly surprised by how quickly students get used to the routine of scoring themselves and how much more focused they become. Learning to use interactive notebooks overcomes two drawbacks of traditional note taking: Students receive little feedback on whether they understand the information they're copying down, and struggling students often don't know how to organize notebooks and take good notes.
Have students designate the left-hand pages in a regular spiral notebook as "student" pages and the right-hand pages as the "teacher" side. During class time, notebooks should be open so both sides show. After students note the goal of the day's lesson on their goal-accounting templates, the teacher should provide an evocative cue related to the lesson's content—an anticipatory question, a statement, or a video.
For example, 5th grade teacher Jenny Humble showed a short clip of a video she found on YouTube called "Birth to 10 Years" before teaching about how people's characters change over time. In pairs, students briefly share their thoughts about the cue and the topic, including questions or background knowledge they each have. Each then individually writes a short phrase or draws a sketch about the topic on the student side of the notebook.
This brief thought-mining hooks into students' prior knowledge and gives them time for peer feedback and reflection. Every student becomes engaged. As the teacher segues into the presentation of new material, students take notes more formally on the right side of the notebook. This is the "teacher" side because the student is recording material the teacher presents.
Some teachers provide partial notes or advance organizers for students. Periodically, the teacher pauses; students then stop taking formal notes and process what they've just heard on the notebook's student side—drawing a diagram, answering a hypothetical question, or summarizing the topic in their own words.
They then share what they've written with a partner; exchange ideas and clarifying feedback with that partner or as a whole class ; and resume taking notes on the right side as the teacher continues the instruction. When note taking was optional in 7th grade English teacher Becky Wegner's class, her telltale students simply didn't take notes—and performed poorly on tests. Once Becky taught students to keep interactive notebooks that they shared with peers and with her, she saw these students transform. Sharing notes with peers increased the overall amount of feedback each student received and the overall productivity of her class.
Learners who previously gave up when required to copy notes became engaged. Students' notes became works in progress that deepened their understandings Pollock, The third technique increases teacher-to-student feedback and student-to-teacher feedback. A teacher creates a matrix with a student roster down the left side and the curriculum goals at the top see fig. During class, as students collaborate on a topic or work independently, the teacher walks around with this roster on a clipboard. The teacher listens, observes, or views work in students' notebooks and jots down a score reflecting how well each student seems to be mastering the standard or goal for that lesson.
Teacher Scoring Roster Week of: Pollock, , Thousand Oaks, CA: The teacher might pause to correct student work or to positively acknowledge a student's or group's progress as this "live scoring" unfolds. Because the instructor is walking around and is easily accessible, a disengaged or unsure student may be more likely to ask for attention or help—and thus stay engaged. As the teacher documents how students are doing with this quick scoring formative assessment technique, he or she begins to see patterns in understandings among students, which helps with differentiating lessons.
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Innovative Assessment of Collaboration. It's applicable to every subject area even electives and to every situation. It strives to help students recognize their role in monitoring their learning and helps them take charge. It has helpful forms and formats for making this a thinking routine in your classroom. Jan 07, Richard Leo rated it liked it Recommends it for: Anyone planning to try to teach anything at all to anyone: Some professional reading for the holidays. A great little book that emphasises one of the key elements of good teaching. Indeed, the research is now out that highlights that feedback is the KEY element to success.
As a book, some great practical ideas to implement in your classroom to provide simple easy feedback on the learning process. Some good ideas that I'll be trying in my own lectures and tutes this coming year also.
As a book, it becomes a bit repetitive towa Some professional reading for the holidays. But for any teacher new or old hand beginning to think about the year ahead and with the sun out and the beach calling, I wouldn't be yet if I didn't have to! Oct 14, Jeanne rated it really liked it Shelves: What I liked about this book is that it didn't try to do too much.
It's a short little book for teachers who are ready to think about small changes that could have a big impact on engaging students. It's more about the shift in focus with a few applications that students should be responsible for monitoring their own learning and not relying on teacher feedback all the time. I do think that the cover that refers to this book as a learning app is completely misleading because the examples she us What I liked about this book is that it didn't try to do too much.
I do think that the cover that refers to this book as a learning app is completely misleading because the examples she uses in the book are entirely pen and pencil. There are people doing similar types of tracking and reflection electronically, but none of that is in this book. Oct 04, Michael Heneghan rated it liked it.
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Got to see this women speak at a recent conference in Colombia. Felt her ideas made so much sense that I wanted to learn more, so I walked up and bought her book for a nifty 20, Colombian pesos. I am already incorporating a couple of her philosophies in my classroom, including two- sided notes similar to Cornell notes , and having students rate their daily effort and understanding of the class's goal.
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