Module 4: Additional Resources

Monitoring Student Learning

• “Monitoring”: This two-page article goes deeper into the importance of monitoring student learning, exploring (a) when to monitor, (b) purposes of monitoring, and (c) how to monitor. Practical examples are provided. Tips are also provided on how to organize the classroom in order to allow for easy monitoring of student learning.
  https://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/article/monitoring
• “Monitoring Class Activities”: This 2-3 page blog explores ideas on how to monitor unobtrusively. It explores how to monitor in order to check activity, assess language and/or skills, and tips on what a teacher should be listening for.
  https://elt-resourceful.com/2013/05/22/monitoring-class-activities/
• “A Favorite Formative Assessment: The Exit Slip”: This 1-page article from Edutopia explains what an exit slip is and provides four examples of how it can effectively be used to enhance student learning and check for student understanding.
  https://www.edutopia.org/blog/formative-assessment-exit-slip-rebecca-alber
• Progress Monitoring as Essential Practice Within Response to Intervention: This brief article, outlines the role of ongoing progress monitoring probes, as a necessary feature of a well-designed Response to Intervention (RTI) Framework.
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• Formative Assessments For Students with Disabilities: This lengthy article has some great tips of scaffolding formative assessments for students with disabilities.
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Sharing Assessment Criteria with Students

• “Sharing Learning Targets & Criteria for Success”: This article from ASCD explores why it is important to share the learning outcomes and assessment criteria with students prior to completing an assessment. In addition, several figures and worksheets are provided that could be used as tools for K-12 teachers when sharing assessment criteria with students. Strategies for sharing assessment criteria include questioning, providing examples, using rubrics, and other techniques.
  http://www.ascd.org/publications/books/109031/chapters/Leveling-the-Playing-Field@-Sharing-Learning-Targets-and-Criteria-for-Success.aspx
• “Involving Students in Assessment Conversations”: This 1 page blog touches on the importance of engaging students in transparent conversation regarding the standard they will be learning, making the learning outcome known from the beginning. This Blog (The Bera Blog) also has links to other sources and topics of current educational issues that may be of interest and help.
  https://www.bera.ac.uk/blog/involving-students-in-assessment-conversations

Providing Teacher Feedback to Students

• “20 Ways to Provide Effective Feedback”: In this article, the author provides 20 effective strategies for providing meaningful teacher feedback to students. In addition, the article provides strategies for the teacher to have enough time to give meaningful feedback to each student and different ways/modes that feedback can be distributed (verbally, conferences, one-on-one meetings, etc.)
  http://www.teachthought.com/pedagogy/assessment/20-ways-to-provide-effective-feedback-for-learning/

Engaging Students in Self-Assessment

• “Structures for Student Self-Assessment”: This two-page article is a general entry that ties self-assessment to critical thinking. It provides examples of how students can self-assess as a class or small group in areas of writing, listening, speaking, reading, and in the class overall.
  http://www.criticalthinking.org/pages/structures-for-student-self-assessment/458
• “Build Executive Functioning Skills”: A short article from Scholastic aimed toward students in grades 6-12, this article provides strategies and examples of how a teacher can teach students to self-assess.
  https://www.scholastic.com/teachers/blog-posts/john-depasquale/2017/Strategies-to-Build-Executive-Functioning-Skills-Part-2/

Multiple Means of Expression

• “The Importance of UDL”: For a quick overview of the three principles of UDL and a rationale for the importance of UDL in the classroom, read this brief article.
  https://www.gse.harvard.edu/news/uk/08/12/importance-universal-design-learning
• “UDL Guidelines -- Version 2.0: Principle II. Provide Multiple Means of Action and Expression”: This website from the National Center on Universal Design for Learning provides detailed information about the principles and guidelines associated with multiple means of expression as well as examples.
  http://www.udlcenter.org/aboutudl/udlguidelines/principle2