Key Points The greatest impact is seen when rubrics, exemplars, and dialogue are combined. Introducing an exemplar after students have begun work can increase creativity. Pair exemplars with a rubric to improve assessment literacy. Dialogue around exemplars; don’t just attach them to a project description. Exemplars are samples of work that teachers use to help …
Franco Posa has been using Floop since Fall 2017. He currently works as a physics and engineering teacher at St. John’s School in Houston, TX. He has held previous positions as physics teacher and network engineer in Maryland Public Schools. He has been married for 35 years to Mary Posa and has two children and three …
If you are an educator, feedback and assessment have been a part of your vocabulary and discussions for as long as you can remember. Sometimes the terms are used interchangeably or confused for one another, yet they are so different. In looking up the definitions of “feedback” and “assessment”, you will find one of the …
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Kevin Ruiz is a senior at Cleveland STEM High School and a marketing intern at Floop. Should we have tests in virtual learning? “We will have a test tomorrow.” Is the last sentence any student wants to hear, now imagine hearing that you have to take a test from home, but the question for teachers …
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Kevin Ruiz is a senior at Cleveland STEM High School and a marketing intern at Floop. Self Grading This blog was created with the help of Mark Barnes, a well-known person in the teaching industry and founder of Times 10 Publications. I asked him a few questions regarding self-grading and he gave me some very …
Every time I try a new unit, it seems like giving formative feedback is a more daunting task than usual. There are problems that crop up that I can’t anticipate as well as new activities and assessments to design. Time for prep and feedback are both in short supply. Still, I was energized by Floop’s …
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Do you check in with your students every day? Maybe a warm up or exit ticket? Amy Morriss, who teaches high school Physics, Engineering, and Robotics outside of New Orleans, LA, uses a graphic organizer for problem solving and elevated her bell work to include a feedback question: We set professional goals at the beginning …
When students provide feedback to each other on presentations, do you wonder: How do I help students give each other meaningful feedback? How do I keep all students engaged during presentations and presentation feedback? One solution to both of these challenges is assigning feedback roles. Roles during practice presentations For team presentations, I have …
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What happens when there are no grades and every student has an A? After years of fielding questions from students about grades instead of content and noticing struggling students demoralized by the numbers, I saw how grades distracted students from learning. So, when I discovered that going gradeless was an option, I decided to throw …
Here at Floop, we’re all about creating effective feedback systems that mix different strategies to best meet your students’ needs. This post is part of a series sharing simple feedback strategies. When giving or receiving feedback, using a structured framework helps keep the feedback constructive and balanced. Here are three of my favorite feedback methods, …
