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Checking for Understanding
Exit Ticket Ideas for Secondary Classrooms
Exit tickets are a valuable way to gain information about what your students took away from a lesson. Secondary teachers can use these exit ticket ideas to assess student understanding and help you plan future lessons.
Understanding Learning Targets
The most meaningful student learning happens when teachers design the right learning target for today’s lesson and use it along with their students to aim for and assess understanding. This resource will help you distinguish between instructional objectives and learning targets.
Differentiation Favorites
Three Essentials for Differentiating Instruction
This is a must have to get started with differentiation! Excellent visual to help you understand three essential ways to differentiate any lesson. Can be used to generate differentiation in a variety of contexts!
Tips for Higher Level Students
If your highest students have become “at-risk” due to lack of growth, this resource is for you! Very useful for ideas on how to stretch the students who are already proficient with standards. Recommended for differentiated within all grade levels!
Essential Classroom Toolkit
Digging Deeper Into Student Behaviors
This will help you understand the behaviors behind the behavior! Great for teachers who have a wide range of learners or want to improve their behavior management. Recommended for classrooms that have challenging populations.
Productive Talk Tools
Increasing productive student talk is a key piece of modern instruction. This is great to use as a scaffold in whole group and small group lessons across a variety of content areas. Make sure to give students a copy, too!
Think About It!
This is the perfect resource for students to stop and think about how their behavior is impacting those around them. Great for students who need to increase self-regulation or who frequently disrupt lessons. Recommended for use in helping with metacognition and self-discipline.
You Can Do Hard Things
Are you a growth mindset teacher? This resource will reinforce the idea that your students (and you!) CAN do hard things! Recommended for encouraging students to persevere and practice a growth mindset.
Must Have Literacy Tools
What Does it Say, Mean, Matter?
This graphic organizer helps make student thinking visible, and serves as a bridge from concrete thinking to abstract thinking. It can be used with a variety of texts, especially those with deeper themes. Use it with students of all ages!
At First I Was Thinking...
This graphic organizer helps make student thinking visible and allows readers to consider how their thinking changes as they read. Students can jot down thinking after three separate reads, or just three specific places in the text.
Reading Passages Websites
This valuable resource is a list of websites where you can find articles for reading practice and comprehension work. Teachers of all grade levels will find leveled and/or comprehension focused content for lessons.
Treasured Math Resources
Express Your Thinking
Writing is not a separate entity from the mathematics curriculum; it is part of it. This organizer allows students to unpack their math processes and allows the teachers to informally assess. Math teachers in grades 2 through 8 could benefit from this resource.
Math Prompts
Prompts can support mathematical thinking, or not. This resource shows examples of effective math prompts and those that are less effective. This cheat sheet would be useful for all math teachers.
Number of the Day Stretch Grades K-2
Daily stretches build conceptual understanding in math. This sample is an example of how to use everyday numbers to represent mathematical thinking and build math knowledge. This resource is for K-2 math teachers. More math stretches are available in our shop.