Student-Developed Assessment: When Students Become the Test Maker and Test Taker
Students are challenged when tasked with developing assessments. In order for students to be successful test makers, they need to know how to apply [...]
5 Tips to Improve Student Performance and Increase Student Achievement
As teachers, how do we become better and better each day? We want to be the best we can possibly be so we can improve student performance and increase [...]
8 Questions to Ask Students While Completing the Minute Paper
What is a Minute Paper? The Minute Paper is a feedback tool that teachers can use with their students to help get feedback about themselves while also giving [...]
Students Recognize Learning Gaps During “Meeting of the Minds”
When students don’t have benchmarks to compare their work, there’s no opportunity for feedback until their work is reviewed by the teacher. If [...]
Students Take the Driver’s Seat: Learning Improves When Students Teach Students
Students Teach Students: A Method to Improve Learning “While we teach, we learn,” said the Roman philosopher, Seneca. When we give students a concept to [...]
Three Ways to Provide Positive Feedback to Students
Students want to be rewarded and recognized for their performances. Once given positive feedback, students will respond better to all feedback given. Ideas [...]
Six Rules of Thumb for Providing Feedback to Students
1. Provide Feedback to Recognize Good Performance We often express what students do wrong, and rarely recognize them for good performance. Most people [...]
Three Questions to Ask During Teacher Student Conferences
Why hold teacher-student conferences? As teachers, we know there are so many things to get done in a school day. It can sometimes be overwhelming to think of [...]
Effective Strategies to Use While Checking In With Students
If something is important enough to give an assignment, it should be important enough to assess. Many teachers hear the word asses and their minds [...]
What are Students Expectations of Teachers While Checking In?
Six Traits To Help Meet Students Expectations As teachers, we always want try to meet students expectations by create learning environments where students [...]
