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Guiding Questions
Guiding Questions
How do you know what students understand and are able to do DURING THE LESSON?
How do you respond when students don't understand the directions or specific content/concepts?
What It Means:
What It Means:
Monitoring student work means that the teacher actively checks for student understanding of targeted content and mastery of targeted skills. This requires teachers to have a planned content and skills objective that they then check to see if students understand / can do.
Why it Matters:
Why it Matters:
Research shows that monitoring student work, particularly circulating the room and checking the quality of student work, is one of the most effective instructional strategies for increasing student learning.
Whole-class questioning does not accurately capture individual student learning since once one student answers a question, other students can repeat that answer without engaging in the desired thinking.
What it looks like:
What it looks like:
Considerations
Considerations
When you circulate, have a clear sense of what you're looking for regarding student quality (exemplars based on rubrics help with this).
Even if you can check students' work via google docs, walking around and talking to them helps send the message to them that you care about them!
Re-directing off-task student behavior in a non-accusatory way also shows students that you care that they are engaged and learning.
How it works
How it works
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