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Baby Walking and Improving Student Learning

My grandson is beginning to walk. He takes about ten steps and then falls down. He crawls over to the nearest table/chair and gets up again. He does not get discouraged about failing to walk many steps. He walks some more and falls down again.

How do we help our students to not get discouraged about their failures? Do we use the “fail forward” mentality that a failure is simply an indication that we tried something that did not work and now we can try something that can work? A mistake is an opportunity to learn. When students see their answers and work as work in progress, they are more willing to take chances and move forward. When we do not criticize them but help them to see how to improve, we encourage them to see failures as stepping stones as opposed to stop signs.

How do you show your students that learning from mistakes is a sign of growth?

My book, Formative Assessment: Responding to Students, is available through Eye-on-Education.

Having Students Go from Proficient to Above Proficient Through Improvements

Published April 7, 2009 Academic , Accountability , Achievement , Assess , Assessment , assessment for learning , Challenge , Classroom , Data , Edublogger , Education , Empowerment , Evaluate , Evaluation , expectation , Feedback , Formative , Formative assessment , formative feedback , Gap , Grade , Grading , Learn , Learner , learning gap , Performance , Power Point , PowerPoint , Proficiency , Proficient , Progress , Rubric , Rubrics , Strength , Success , Teacher , Test , Testing Leave a Comment
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In my Oral presentations (speech) class, I’m grading their final speeches on how much they have improved from when they originally gave the speech. They have to show me their original speech, the rubric in which I indicated their strengths and gaps, and a sheet which explains how they are overcoming their gaps. Their final (two speeches that they select from those they have done) are graded on improvement. If they show the three improvements, they get an A. For each learning gap that is not changed into a strength, they loose ten points. So far students have shown drastic improvements, their speeches have gone from being below proficient or being proficient to being above proficient. They have learned to support their speeches with image-based PowerPoints that drive home their messages. When we raise the bar and prove ways for students to improve, they go over the bar!

How do you have your students improve and become above proficient?

My book, Formative Assessment: Responding to Students, is available through Eye-on-Education.

Waterfalls, Summative and Formative Assessment

Published April 21, 2008 Accountability , Achievement , Assess , Assessment , assessment for learning , Formative , Formative assessment , formative feedback , learning , Summative Leave a Comment
Tags: assessments, Education, Formative, Formative assessment, learning, Progress, School, Summative, Waterfall

I like to visit waterfalls. There are two general types of waterfalls. In one the water falls all the way from the top to the bottom. Meanwhile, in the other type, the water hits several layers of rocks, therefore the water cascades.

I think that the total drop water fall is like the summative tests we give students. The results are given at the end of the year or semester. It has no impact on the students’ learning movement within the course. In a formative assessment process, We do not just check the students’ progress just once but we check many times. We find out if we have to redirect their movement. We can see small successes steps that lead to the big success in the standard.

Reporting back to students on their standards progress

Published January 2, 2008 Academic , Accountability , Achievement , Assessment , assessment for learning , Formative , Formative assessment , Learn , learning , Progress , Report , Spreadsheet , Standard Leave a Comment
Tags: Achievement, Education, Goals, Grade, Learn, Progress, School, Spreadsheet, Standard, technology

How often do you report back to the students on their standards-based progress? I’m not referring to their grades which probably have little to do with standards learning. How often do you let them know which standards’ goals they have achieved and which they have yet to achieve? How often do you inform them of what they specifically can do to be more successful in the standard’s goals?

Technology even as simple as a digital spreadsheet can be a great tool for keeping track of students’ progress through the goals of a standard and keeping the students informed.

Education with Technology Harry G. Tuttle

Posts Tagged 'Progress'

Baby Walking and Improving Student Learning

Having Students Go from Proficient to Above Proficient Through Improvements

Waterfalls, Summative and Formative Assessment

Reporting back to students on their standards progress

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