Activities
Self-Assessment Opportunities
Meaningful reflection takes practice. This is as true for students as it is for teachers. You can best support your students in their efforts at self-assessment by providing regular, uninterrupted time for students to think about their progress. At first, you may need to guide their reflection with questions such as these:- What did I learn today?
- What did I do well?
- What am I confused about?
- What do I need help with?
- What do I want to know more about?
- What am I going to work on next?
As students participate in the self-assessment process, they will have many
opportunities to collect pieces of their writing and react to things they have
read. Individual student conferences can help guide these periods of
self-reflection and reinforce the idea that collecting and evaluating work are
important steps in self-assessment.
Social and Emotional Curriculum: The Seven Doors to Happiness
- Social and Emotional Curriculum: Understanding Happiness
- Social and Emotional Curriculum: Obstacles to Happiness
- Social and Emotional Curriculum: Self-Reflection
- Social and Emotional Curriculum: Self-Mastery
- Social and Emotional Curriculum: Compassion in Action
- Social and Emotional Curriculum: Interdependence
- Social and Emotional Curriculum: Sharing Your Gif
2. Give Students a Voice in How to Work with Them
If your students were to create a users guide on how they learn, what would it look like? With the instructions on this web page, students can write a users guide that explains to users—classmates and teachers—how to work with them: what motivates them, calms them, coaches them. The task requires students to make decisions about style, structure and content (as required by the Common Core State Standards) in order to effect an audience toward a specific purpose: work well with me. The users guide gives students a voice in determining how teachers and peers understand and relate to them. Click Here to Access Guide Instructions
3. Feelings Game4. Do to Learn - Free Feelings and Emotions Games, excellent for social skills instruction, also check out the Street Safety songs for students with cognitive disabilities. They have added an Emotions Color Wheel tool
which is an incredible resource to help students visually understand their feelings.
5 Story_Squares.doc
5b. Student Self-assessment Forms
- Student Reading Strategy Self-Assessment
- Student Overall Skills Self-Assessment
- Student Overall Skills Self-Assessment in Spanish
- Simplified Student Grade Self-Evaluation Sheet
- Student Reflection Sheet 2
- Prove It Student Reflection Sheet
- Weekly Reflection- How's It Going?
- Weekly progress sheet
- Three Minute Buzz
- Reflection Pyramid
5c. Student-Led Conferences
- Student Preparation Sheet
- Fall Conference Simplified Teacher Talking Points
- Spring Conference Teacher Talk Sheet
- Spring Conference Student Preparation Sheet
- Simplified Conference Teacher Sheet
- Example of Student-Led Conference Outline
- 2nd Example of Student-led Conference Outline
- Examples of Parent Questions for Student-Led Conferences
- Post-Conference Student Self Reflection
- Post-Conference Parent Reflection
- Measurement student self-assessment
- First American target chart
- Student Self-Assessment Checklist
- K-2 Smiley Checklist
7. 99_sampleactivities.pdf
- Connecting Sharing Circles to academic content and students' lives. For example, identify a key feeling or concern in a story and use it as a handle. Example: You read Goldilocks and the Three Bears. Goldilocks is discovered asleep in Little Bear's bed and runs away. After reading you could use handles like: A time I got caught doing what I wasn't suppose to do.. or a time I felt frightened or You're studying the Civil War and slavery. You use the following handle: i feel like a slave when or once I made someone feel like a slave by, I feel enslaved by..
- Guidelines for Running a Sharing Circle
- Teacher sets the ground rules
- Teacher provides a handle
- Teacher shares first to establish risk level and provide a model.
- Alert group a couple of minutes before ending circle.
- The teacher responses should be encouraging, such as,
- Would you like to tell us more about that
- How did that make you feel
- You felt that very deeply, didn't you?
- You feel afraid when you meet new people, you said. That's like what Jimmy was saying.
- You and Sarah share the same feeling?
- I've experienced that too.
- You mean...
10. Blogging as a reflective tool Slide show
Kidblog
Designed for elementary and middle school teachers who want to provide each student with their own, unique blog. No need for student email addresses. Kidblog Video Tutorials scroll down to middle of page Text Directions to set up | (New Kidblog Features tutorial video including using the Secret Code feature for creating a class)
11. Student self assessment with Google Forms