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Student self-checks
Student self-checks
Student self-reflection is found to be one of the top indicators positively impacting student achievement in educational researcher John Hattie’s highly regarded study Visible Learning. According to his analysis, the effect of student-reported grades is one of the highest influencers in relation to student learning. Since students are very accurate at reporting and predicting their achievement, incorporating this practice more often into the learning process can be a helpful tool to encourage students to push themselves to higher levels of success.
Student self-reflection is found to be one of the top indicators positively impacting student achievement in educational researcher John Hattie’s highly regarded study Visible Learning. According to his analysis, the effect of student-reported grades is one of the highest influencers in relation to student learning. Since students are very accurate at reporting and predicting their achievement, incorporating this practice more often into the learning process can be a helpful tool to encourage students to push themselves to higher levels of success.
Ideas for Student Reflection
1. Math Share ( whole group on the rug)
2. Journal Prompts
3. Turn and Talk
4. Exit Tickets
5. Four corners
6. Ask a poll question
7. Thumbs up / thumbs down ( pocket chart)
8. Videos using SeeSaw
9. Rubrics
10. Surveys-Google Forms
11. 3-2-1
3-2-1 is a tried-and-true way to frame anything from a pair-share or journal entry (e.g., ask students to write 3 things they think they know, 2 things they know they don’t know, and one thing they’re certain of about a topic) pre-assessment to a post-assessment (e.g., list three ways your essay reflected mastery of skill X, two ways skill Y still needs improving, and one way you can make your argument stronger in the next five minutes) to a reflection of the post-assessment.
3-2-1 is a tried-and-true way to frame anything from a pair-share or journal entry (e.g., ask students to write 3 things they think they know, 2 things they know they don’t know, and one thing they’re certain of about a topic) pre-assessment to a post-assessment (e.g., list three ways your essay reflected mastery of skill X, two ways skill Y still needs improving, and one way you can make your argument stronger in the next five minutes) to a reflection of the post-assessment.
12. If....then.... ( EX: If I learn my addition facts.......then it will help me with my subtraction facts.
13. Unpacking (ex: What's in your Luggage? Successes...... Challenges......Questions
14. Get one Give one
15. Respond, Reflect, Review- students answer a prompt and then leave the answer on their desk. Students then rotate to another student's desk to read their response. Then student then leaves a response back to the other student on their original response. (click here to watch Respond, Reflect, Review video).
TEN REFLECTIVE QUESTIONS TO ASK AT THE END OF CLASS
TEN REFLECTIVE QUESTIONS TO ASK AT THE END OF CLASS
1. Reflect on your thinking, learning, and work today. What were you most proud of?
2. Where did you encounter struggle today, and what did you do to deal with it?
3. What about your thinking, learning, or work today brought you the most satisfaction? Why?
4. What is frustrating you? How do you plan to deal with that frustration?
5. What lessons were learned from failure today?
6. Where did you meet success, and who might benefit most from what you’ve learned along the way? How can you share this with them?
7. What are your next steps? Which of those steps will come easiest? Where will the terrain become rocky? What can you do now to navigate the road ahead with the most success?
8. What made you curious today?
9. How did I help you today? How did I hinder you? What can I do tomorrow to help you more?
10. How did you help the class today? How did you hinder the class today? What can you do tomorrow to help other learners more?
Below are weather and emoji faces. Put these up in the corners of your room. Then at the end of math workshop, student can go stand in a corner based on how they felt they did. This is a quick and easy reflection.
Below are weather and emoji faces. Put these up in the corners of your room. Then at the end of math workshop, student can go stand in a corner based on how they felt they did. This is a quick and easy reflection.
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