Check for Understanding/ Give Feedback

(UETS 1.1, 1.4, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 3.2, 3.3)

TARGETS:

• after each small step/chunk

• use formal and informal formative assessments to monitor students’ progress

• correct student errors/clarify misunderstanding with specific feedback

• praise/reinforce accurate responses with specific feedback

• engage students in self-assessment and goal setting

• adjust instruction until students are ready for next step

CHECKLISTS & STRATEGIES:

• Strategy: Quality Questions

• Quality Questions Checklist

• Strategy: Exit Tickets

• Strategy: One-Minute Sentence

• Strategy: Student Response Cards (Hold Ups)

• Strategy: Response Boards

• Strategy: Cold Calling

• Strategy: Voting Techniques

• Strategy: Confidence Rating Techniques

• Strategy: Unrecorded Assessments

• Strategy: Academic Notebook

• Strategy: Reflective Journals

• Strategy: Academic Goal Setting

ADDITIONAL RESOURCES:

• PEAKS II CONFERENCE, SESSION 3 - PROVIDE GUIDED PRACTICE + CHECK FOR UNDERSTANDING

• PEAKS II CONFERENCE, SESSION 4 - GIVE FEEDBACK + PROVIDE INDEPENDENT PRACTICE

• 53 Ways to Check for Understanding

• Dipsticks - Efficient Ways to Check for Understanding

• Checking for Understanding: Formative Assessment Techniques for Your Classroom

• Checks for Understanding

• Quality Feedback

• Teacher Responses to Right and Wrong Answers

• Ways to Say Good Job

• Flash Feedback

• Austin’s Butterfly

• Highlighting Mistakes Grading Strategy

• From Engagement By Design on Feedback

• Formative Assessment using UPS

• Descriptive Feedback 1

• Descriptive Feedback 2

• The Only F That Matters

• Feedback Two Way Street

• The Secret of Effective Feedback

• Making Time for Feedback (Fisher and Frey)

• 7 Keys to Effective Feedback

• Preventing Feedback Fizzle

• Delaying the Grade - How to Get Students to Read Feedback

• 5 Reasons You Should Seek Your Own Student Feedback

• Moving from Feedback to Feed Forward

• Seven Strategies for Improving Student Feedback

• Meet the Single Point Rubric

• Copy of Single Point Rubric Variation

• How to Turn Rubric Scores into Grades

• Kitchen Pedagogy: Check for Understanding Video and 5 Ways to Check for Understanding

• Check for Understanding: Why it Matters and How to do it

• 28 Ways to Quickly Check for Understanding