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Catch them Learning: A Pathway to Academic Integrity in the Age of AI

…academic disciplines using a simple, in-class prompt that requires students to provide a claim and supporting evidence in a full paragraph. This establishes a baseline of each student’s writing style, vocabulary, and skills. Affirm and provide feedback on (but don’t grade) baseline evidence so students know that you are aware of — and accept — their starting point. Quick feedback such as “I enjoyed reading your paragraph on (specific topic),” can be followed by an observation such as “Your use of well-aligned supporting details made this an interesting read.” Or, if more critical feedback is warranted, include a message of…

The Surprising Benefits of Student-Created Graphic Novels

…to share their personal stories with their classmates for peer review, so I ask them to choose at least one completed panel to share for feedback. Sometimes, I collect one panel from each student and anonymously re-distribute them to the class for feedback. As reviewers, students ask themselves, “What is happening? How do I know? What assumptions am I being asked to challenge? How I am I connecting with this story?” Their comments help the creator understand how readers are responding to their narrative and design choices. Sometimes, students volunteer to share their pages with the whole class for feedback….

Episode 167: Co-Constructing Success Criteria

The Cult of Pedagogy Podcast, Episode 167 Transcript Jennifer Gonzalez, Host GONZALEZ: Early on in my teaching career I would spend entire weekends grading a stack of student papers, highlighting the accompanying rubric to indicate problem areas and writing comment after comment to point out strengths and areas for improvement. The following Monday, when I returned the papers, far too many students would look at their grades and feedback like it was written in another language. Despite the fact that I had gone over the requirements at the beginning and given them a copy of the rubric ahead of time,…

6 Ed Tech Tools to Try in 2015

…feedback to stay private between you and the student. Give parents your contact information on back-to-school night with a QR code: By scanning the code, the information goes right into their phones. 5. Kaizena Voice Feedback on Student Assignments Difficulty Level: Medium Prerequisites: Set up a Google Drive account first. If you and your students use Google Docs to compose and store student writing projects, there’s a tool built into that platform that will allow you to give feedback more easily, more quickly, and with much more depth. With Kaizena teachers can go into student documents and add written or voice comments. It’s the latter…

How ELA and Special Ed Collaboration Can Produce Great Student Writing

…these as well. Sharing the writing load also means you can divide up written feedback on student drafts. By rotating which teacher gives feedback to which students, you give students the benefit of both sets of eyes and continue to establish an equal partnership with all students. 4. Practicing ‘Less is More’ With a task as complex as writing, all students—but especially those with learning differences—can experience cognitive overload. So it works best to tackle one chunk, one scene, one paragraph at a time. When it comes to feedback, many students are overwhelmed by too many comments just as they…

Build it Together: Co-Constructing Success Criteria with Students

Suz 1. How do you solve the problem of students making their work look identical to exemplars? 2. How do you include innovation, and creativity, and thinking if you tell kids what the end product should look like? 3. What does “direct” feedback look like? How do you give “direct’ feedback without giving the answers and without students just copying/reiterating the feedback that you give them? Karen Thank you for this article! The discussion on rubrics and what does it look like is so relevant for teaching in Australia – we are provided with a set rubric for each subject…

How to Set Up Mastery-Based Grading in Your Classroom

…students lean on each other through the journey to mastery. Constant Revision: One of the most important elements of building an effective mastery-based grading classroom is cultivating a culture of revision. Students need to internalize that to achieve mastery you should EXPECT to revise your work. This is a novel concept to many students and will result in some pushback, which is a good thing. During this practice time, students should be submitting assignments and receiving feedback from their teacher on areas that need improvement. Unlike a traditional setting, where students turn in assignments and never see them again until…

6 Ed Tech Tools to Try in 2017

…has given feedback to whom can be frustrating and time-consuming. Peergrade takes care of a few of these issues. Originally created for use at universities, it’s a platform where students can evaluate each other’s work anonymously. After the teacher creates an assignment and a rubric, students submit their work. Next, Peergrade randomly distributes the assignments to different classmates for evaluation. Students give feedback to their classmates using the rubric set up by the teacher; they can add written comments as well as selecting options from the rubric. Finally, students can view the feedback given to them; they can rate the…

Episode 126: Student-Written Graphic Novels

…by the end I was able to focus my own feedback really on what, what would be meaningful for students. Like, for example, Lewis, you know. All of what he took, the risk to narrate, did he need from me a reminder that there’s a difference between “your” and “you are”? Or did he need some more meaningful feedback? GONZALEZ: Right, right. MILLER: So the criteria just really helped me do that. GONZALEZ: Yeah. MILLER: And essentially helped all students see that the learning wasn’t done, even, even when they got an A. GONZALEZ: Yeah, yeah. I love that. I…