Creative Exit Ticket Strategies and Best Practices
Exit tickets have been a great way to accomplish formative or summative assessment for some time now. They are a low-stress way to see what your students know and what they are still struggling with. For the uninitiated, exit tickets usually work like this: The teacher asks some sort of summative question at the end of the lesson, about five minutes before the bell. That’s the basic gist, but there are some more creative uses of the exit ticket strategy that can add flavor to your assessment practices. Tweet the lesson In 140 characters or less, have students summarize the contents of the lesson in which they just took part. Self-assessment Instead of “What did I learn today?” Relate to real life Ask students where they think the day’s lesson will fit into their daily lives. Outside-the-box analogies Spice up your exit tickets with analogies to seemingly incongruous concepts. The parking lot Entry slips Want a real assessment of students’ retention? Have any other cool exit ticket strategies?
Boom Writer
BoomWriter lets you easily incorporate and experience the benefits of technology as your students are engaged in the following (or similar) standards-based learning activities: Grade 3 CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.3.3 - Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, descriptive details, and clear event sequences. Using BoomWriter’s feature allowing teachers to create their own story start, students collaboratively create imagined multi-paragraph personal narratives using a teacher generated prompt (e.g. Grade 5 CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.5.2 - Determine a theme of a story, drama, or poem from details in the text, including how characters in a story or drama respond to challenges or how the speaker in a poem reflects upon a topic; summarize the text. Grade 6 CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.6.1 - Write arguments to support claims with clear reasons and relevant evidence. Grade 7 Students demonstrate narrative skills while conducting unit of study summary of Ancient Rome.
EBSCOhost: Who Are Our Students? Measuring Learner Characteristics in Adult Immigrants...
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Sketchnote Tools and Resources - iPad Multimedia Tools
Interested in using digital sketchnotes in with your students, but don’t know how to get started? This session will share easy ideas and resources to quickly begin using sketchnotes in your classroom. Participants will explore what a sketchnote is and why research identifies it as a powerful learning strategy to organize and document thinking, ideas, reading, and listening. They will learn about the basic components of a sketchnote and tools/apps needed/helpful to begin creating digital sketchnotes on an iPad with their students. They will discover resources, lessons, video tutorials, and examples from the presenter and her students (including a complete sketchnote course in iTunesU) on which will equip them to launch sketchnoting in their classroom. Here are resources for the session: **Download the Digital Sketchnotes for Visualizing Learning iTunesU Course in advance or at the start of the session. Use the Notes app that comes on your Apple device
The Best Websites For K-12 Writing Instruction/Reinforcement
Here’s another one of my “Best of…” lists. This time it’s focused on websites to support writing instruction/reinforcement for grades K-12. You might also find these other writing-related “The Best…” lists useful: K-12 is a pretty wide-range, and there are some sites here that are obviously more geared towards either younger or older students. I’m feeling a little conflicted about making this list. I believe the best way computers can help students become better writers is by their just using wordprocessing. Another reason I’m a bit conflicted is because I believe the best writing curriculum out there, by far, is the one offered by the WRITE Institute. (You can now purchase — for $20 each — the supplemental units the WRITE Institute creates and then reproduce them for a one-time classroom use. Here are what I think are The Best Websites For K-12 Writing Instruction/Reinforcement (I know that title is quite a mouthful!) Number eleven is a new one called Protagonize. Related November 8, 2012
EBSCOhost: Adult learners' perceptions of working with awareness in the EFL classroom.
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Posts Related to The “Innovator’s Mindset”
Below is some of the work that I have focused on regarding the idea of the “Innovator’s Mindset”. I have defined it below: Please feel free to peruse the ideas below and share your thoughts. The Innovator’s Mindset – This is the post that defines the notion of the “innovator’s mindset” and sets the stage for the rest of the posts. Without educators adopting this mindset, it is tough to move forward in a time where change is the only constant. Does Brainstorming Lead to Innovation? The Biggest Barrier To Innovation – Often what is holding us back is not someone else, but ourselves. Should every educator be an “innovator”? 8 Characteristics of the Innovator’s Mindset – What are the characteristics of the “innovator’s mindset”? 8 Characteristics of the Innovator’s Mindset (Interview and Blog Questions) – This blog post is a supplement to the above to understand where people are on their journey to innovation in education.
