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FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT

Pear Deck allows instructors to embed formative assessment questions throughout their lessons. According to Pear Deck, the use of formative assessment in the classroom positively impacts student achievement more so than almost any other educational intervention.

• The Teacher Dashboard allows teachers to view student responses instantly, giving them real-time insight from formative assessments. This allows them to quickly adapt instruction to meet student needs. For example, the teacher can:

  • See students thinking in real-time and allow ample time for processing

  • See aggregate responses to get pulse of whole class

  • Organize, filter, and manage student responses to see who needs support

• Pear Deck Pop-Up Prompts allow teachers to issue formative assessment on the fly, making it simple to integrate whole-class formative assessment without pre-planning.

ACTIVE LEARNING

Active learning techniques are used to directly engage students in the learning process through discussion and activities. In contrast to passive lectures, active learning can have huge benefits on outcomes including reducing achievement gaps and increasing student achievement. ³

• Pear Deck’s pre-made and custom interactive prompts get every student actively engaging with the lesson content.

RETRIEVAL PRACTICE

Retrieval practice is a key element of learning helping students turn passively-absorbed information into real understanding and knowledge. By recalling something they’ve learned, students encode that information more deeply, helping them retain it over time. Retrieval practice is related to active learning in that students are prompted to actively think about and process information previously learned. ⁴

• Pear Deck pre-made and custom Interactive prompts get every student actively engaging with the lesson content and retrieving information.

FEEDBACK DRIVEN METACOGNITION

Metacognition is the act of thinking about your thinking.

• Using the Teacher Dashboard, teachers can guide students when they feel stuck, correct a misconception, or describe what was great about a specific response

• For individual students, Teachers can use the Teacher Feedback tool to give timely and specific guidance and help students develop metacognition

• When teachers publish Student Takeaways students have an artifact of the lesson and their own responses that students can use for review and study. Teachers can access the Takeaways document to leave feedback, correct mistakes, and prompt further learning.

WHOLE CHILD PRACTICES AND SOCIAL-EMOTIONAL SKILLS

Pear Deck has premade lesson additions called SEL activities which allow teachers to gauge and support students Social-Emotional Learning.

• Pear Deck Social-Emotional Learning Templates remind teachers to make space for student's social and emotional needs. The templates are appropriate for any subject or grade level and show students that it's ok to bring their whole selves to the classroom.

• When a teacher shares student responses with the class, those answers are always projected anonymously. This is critical to ensure that every student feels safe contributing to the class discussion.

Pear Deck is a versatile slides add-on that allows instructors to enhance their lessons, create new interactive units, and monitor in real-time students' success. Below are some practical uses for this tool:

• Handwriting unit for lower elementary (drawing slides with traceable letters)

• College course work

• Collaborative projects among instructors

• Science review- with interactive draggable/drawing slides for students

• Reading lesson with audio add-ons, SEL checks, and takeaways

• Distance learning (asynchronous/synchronous)