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Peer Assessment Strategies

There are benefits to having peers review and provide feedback about each other’s work. There are a few different possibilities with these strategies so lets take a look. These ideas are drawn from both high school and college classes. The individual ideas can definitely be used on multiple levels though. These ideas have inherent ties to 21st Century…

8 Ways to Share Information with Students and Parents

In previous posts, I have written about the importance of communication as well as ways to build student communication skills. Here is an early post of mine about communication and collaboration in the classroom. In this post, however, I discuss ways for teachers to provide students and parents with ways to access class information. This…

Book Review of Teaching Models: Designing Instruction for 21st Century Learners

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10 Great Ideas for Alternative Assessment

There is inherent value to traditional tests and research reports. There is also value in alternative assessments though. There is plenty of research to support this. Here is a top ten list of alternative assessments to try in your classroom. I am including tool and resource links where appropriate. Everything I include can be used…

Student Discussion Questions and Asynchronous Discussions

I wrote a post last week about Maintaining Student Work Portfolios in Google Drive. In that post, I wrote about the practice of tracking student growth with work portfolios. I described one way of how teachers can collect student work so it can be reviewed in the future for evidence of growth. Many, but not…