Student Reflection Prompts

6 End of Class Student Reflection  Prompts

Closings and Reflective Activities

There are many different ways to integrate closings and reflective activities into classroom practice. Depending on the circumstances, closings and reflective activities can be quickly jotted down and shared out loud, or they can be larger writing assignments that are submitted with projects or posted as an introduction to blog posts of student work.

The following is a list of different reflection and closing prompts:

• Share one thing you learned.
• Share a question for future investigation.
• Respond with a word.
• What worked? What didn’t work?
• What is one part of your work that you are proud of?
• How would you do this differently next time?

School is generally not structured in a way that easily accommodates ambiguity and differentiation. While this presents a challenge, the strategic integration of meaningful closings and reflection into classroom practice gives students multiple avenues for engaging with complex ideas and allows more students to find broader meaning in their work. Additionally, these activities help teachers to more deeply understand and adapt to the intellectual processes of our students.

In what different ways do you structure reflection and closings in your classroom?

Word Up: The Must Dos of Vocabulary Instruction

Must read article from Edutopia about vocabulary instruction.  Great strategies are given.

Word Up: The Must Dos of Vocabulary Instruction

Try these 54 teacher-created examples of formative assessments from Edutopia

:http://edut.to/1AnLx4z.

Math Talk Sentence Stems

Great way to start a conversation in your math class.

Classroom Management: The Intervention Two-Step

Classroom Management: The Intervention Two-Step

Weekly Goal Setting

An idea for weekly goal setting.

             

Great Classroom Management Idea

While visiting classrooms this week I saw a great classroom management idea in Valerie Tuneta's room.  She has created a chart with each student's name on it.  Each student begins the day with two bathroom passes.  When a student needs to use the bathroom he/she takes a pass off the board under their name and give the pass to Valerie.  At the end of the day she replaces all of the passes for the next day.

Great idea Valerie!

Tech Tip

If you have students who like to travel between apps when you need them to stay on one app, there is a solution.  If you activate guided access on the iPads then students can only access the current app that you want them to work on.  When the students are finished with that app, then the guided access can be turned off.  The youtube video shows you how to activate guided access on students' iPads.

http://youtu.be/qy-OJrkV1AY

Just a reminder that with the beginning of a new month comes a new ISIP assessment for iStation reading.   CogAT letters and results will be going home soon.