Fostering Student Autonomy Through Free Choice Writing
I love the fact that when teachers experiment with new strategies, they’ll naturally want to build on [...]
Assessment/feedback
Using Conferences to Improve Students’ Self-Assessment Skills
I’m teaching an 11th grade writing class and my students are finishing up a unit on memoirs. I’m [...]
A Case Study: Empowering Students Through a Gradeless Approach.
At The Community for Learning (TCFL) we use a gradeless approach to assessment in elementary. Instead of [...]
How to Use Learning Journeys to Facilitate Student-Led Learning
After spending a year and a half in remote learning, many of our students were having difficulty returning to [...]
Empowering Students Through Self-Assessment of the Writing Process
Sandy is busily writing the first draft of her personal narrative in 7th grade language arts. Ten minutes [...]
6 Ways to Give Effective Virtual Feedback in Less Time
This September — after being tossed into an emergency online teaching stint in March — [...]
Making Virtual Class Discussions Engaging Using the TQE Method, Breakout Rooms, and Self-Assessment
Example of one group’s work in our virtual TQE discussion. A couple of years ago, I came across [...]
Lessons from Virtual Learning: Teaching Self-Advocacy
Graphic adapted from: rule-the-school.com At TCFL, we teach certain self-advocacy skills to our students. [...]
Lessons from Virtual Learning: How to Improve Assessment
I’m not very proud of what I’m going to write, since I can’t believe it took me so long to [...]
How Administrators Can Go “Gradeless” and Assess Teachers Through Feedback
I’m a big believer in modeling what we want to see teachers do in their classroom. For instance, we [...]
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