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Bill Ferriter @plugusin reveals the top 4 insights he’s gained from giving students the opportunity to self-assess and self-correct. Trending video on #GlobalPD. A Project to Prompt Student Reflection in High School. Teachers think often about how best to provide students with feedback that helps them continue to learn.

A Project to Prompt Student Reflection in High School

This past year, as I considered how to foster the skills my students would need for the following year, I created a new final project and built up new ways to provide feedback. The Dream Job At Los Gatos High School, we have a four-year interdisciplinary pathway called LEAD@LG (Lead, Explore, Act, and Design at Los Gatos). I teach the ninth-grade English classes, and the students’ final project was to explore their dream job. I wanted students to have a personal job goal because supporting them in that future pursuit created authentic buy-in and allowed them to dream big.

After reading “How to Get a Job at Google,” students discussed the importance of soft skills and created cover letters and résumés for their dream job. Then they picked three projects they wanted to give more details about and featured them in the main section of the résumé and in their cover letter. Tool - Intervention - 14. Where Am I Going Checklists. 10 Top-Notch Strategies To Boost Student Participation And Active Learning. Every teacher strives for an active classroom buzzing with engaged and eager students.

10 Top-Notch Strategies To Boost Student Participation And Active Learning

However, even the most experienced teachers face days when it seems like they’re the only one talking and the students have simply tuned out. Or, perhaps your students are so engaged and so eager to participate that you’re having a tough time making sure that all student voices are heard. Silence can bring even the best lesson to a screeching halt and the hand that never seems to go down is certainly a challenge. Your Final Checklist: Back To School Starter Pack End-of-Year Reflection.

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Your Final Checklist: Back To School Starter Pack End-of-Year Reflection

You made it to the end of the school year. Are you excited for summer? Are you already thinking about the next school year? Here at Teaching Channel, we sure are! At the beginning of the school year, we launched our Back to School Starter Packs, a set of checklists and resources organized by grade band to help you start the year off on the right track.

In the meantime, we’ve created an End of Year Reflection to help you think about your year and plan for the next. Take 5 (or a little more) to Reflect Head over to our Back to School Starter Pack page and download the End of Year Reflection (you must be logged in). After you’re finished, you may even want to take it a step further by joining the conversation in Tch Video Lounge. Speaking of learning… be on the lookout next week for our blog series, I Want to Get Better At... If you try our End of Year Reflection, let us know how it goes in the comments section below. 60-Second Strategy: Snowball Toss. Twitter. Twitterexitticket. Tweetyourunderstanding. Deeper Class Discussions with the TQE Method. These teachers film themselves in the classroom, allowing them to visibly see their habits and patterns—and ultimately reflect on their practice.…

Edutopia. We know that reflection increases student learning. It supports growth mindset and encourages students to improve and learn from their mistakes. We may engage our students in reflection in our classrooms, but it’s not often habitual—I know I’ve been guilty of treating reflection as an event rather than as something we do all the time. With all the challenges of teaching content and assessing learning outcomes, we can fall into the trap of skipping the reflection. And benchmarks in the year such as student-led conferences or mid-semester reflection points may perpetuate the narrative that reflection is an event. But while these benchmarks are important, we need to move away from larger events and make time for frequent reflection as part of the classroom culture and routine. What can we do to make this a reality in our crowded schedules? Setting More Frequent Short-Term Goals Checking In Quickly Ask your students things like: What did you accomplish today?

Adopting A Process Portfolio. Craig Badura sur Twitter : ".@apeterson2010 having her students create a summary of their 2018 using Google Slides + Emoji One extension. She created a class deck with student names and students add to their slides. #gafe #gafe4littles #aurorahuskies… htt. 7 Ways Reflection Gives Students Ownership of their Learning. In his book, The Power of Habit, Charles Duhigg describes keystone habits as, “small changes or habits that people introduce into their routines that unintentionally carry over into other aspects of their lives.”

7 Ways Reflection Gives Students Ownership of their Learning

Reflection has been one of habit that has transformed my life as a teacher, leader, author, and dad. My day is probably like most of yours. I wake up, drink some coffee, read, write, attempt to work out, get dressed, give the kids and wife a kiss goodbye, head off to work and grab something to eat. I then spend hours at work in meetings, talking with people, creating, managing, teaching, learning, and eventually get to head home where I’ll play with my kids, go to events, sports practices/games, activities, sometimes out to eat (or a rate date), help put my kids to bed, and then get to spend an hour or two hanging out with my wife thankful the house is quiet for the moment.

Student lives look very similar to adult lives, except they rarely have any choice in what they do. . #1. Student Self-Assessment and Reflection - Ky. Skills U.