RGS Resources

Scaffolded ideas and actions to try your classroom.

Use this as a template to develop your own student interest survey.  Use results to personalize lessons and challenges for students to increase engagement by putting their skills and interests into the various AI tools in the "Additional Details" sections.

Quickly tie your content to real life to show students how the things they are learning are used outside the school walls.

Would you (or your students) like help to create specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound goals?  Khanmigo has a free tool to help!

Create a SMART goals tracker for students aligned to their needs. (Tier 2/3, MTSS, IEPs, etc.)

A template for your students to use to reflct on their own knowledge and skills and to set learning goals for themselves.

See how student developed norms can foster a better learning environment.

Carol Dweck reminds us to praise the learning process as well as the results and focuses on the power of "yet" and the growth mindset.

A list of reflective questions and an explanaton on why you might use them in your classroom

Check out this series of reflection sentence stems to use before, during, or after a lesson!

This article from Edutopia explores how to effectively get students journaling about their learning in a way that is efficient and effective.

Responsive Classroom describes how student reflection can be use throughout the school year to build community.

This Google Slide deck has student and teacher samples for grades K-8.

Students can use a SMART Goal Tracker like this to set goals and monitor their progress.

An article and sample of a data tracking system.  Created and refined by an educator.

Listen to two teachers describe how they use student conferences to understand students' needs.

This is a fantastic post on how to use 5-minute conferences to guide reflection, provide feedback, discuss mastery, or simply do a pulse check.