tip #4: check for understanding

In a blended learning environment, it is imperative that you:

    • Provide formative assessments in order to check for understanding throughout the lesson.
    • Give immediate feedback to students.
    • Have clear assignment expectations with quality rubrics, when needed.

assessment tools

1. Exit Tweet: Ask students to briefly summarize what has been learned.


2. Polling: Use tools like Google or Microsoft Forms, Kahoot, Quizizz to capture student responses to a question.You can also use Office Mix‘s built-in question feature.


3. Classroom Response Tool: Use Socrative, Kahoot, Plickers, GoFormative.com, or Zipgrade.com to get insight into student learning in real time or a video with EdPuzzle.com.


4. Flipgrid: Flipgrid.com - Flipgrid is a free, fun, and easy way to have a video chat. It is a great way to get student feedback while incorporating student voice. There is an iOS and Android app.


5. Recap: Recap - Like Flipgrid, Swivl's Recap provides teachers with new, creative ways to gather evidence of student thinking using video.


6. Additional “Rev Up Your Review” Strategies: These are shared by Lisa Monthie (@lisamonthie) in the #tceachat Voxerchat: