3. STUDENT SIGNALS (Feedback)
Description: Students can use a variety of signals to indicate their understanding of concepts presented in lessons.
Application: Use these methods as informal assessments for the teacher but also self-assessments for the student.
Process: Provide students with the parameters of each signal activity. Vary them throughout the course to avoid complacency. At regular intervals during a lesson:
Fist to Five: ask students to use their hand to show their depth of understanding with a fist meaning “I don’t understand at all” to showing all five fingers meaning “I understand all of it.” Based on student signals, adjust teaching.
Thumb Up-Thumb Down: direct students to use their thumb to show understanding of a concept. (Thumb up means “I understand all of it,” thumb down means “I don’t understand any of it,” and a thumb to the side means “I still have some questions.”) Based on student signals, adjust teaching.
Colored Cups: Before independent learning, provide students with a green, yellow, and red cup. Tell students to display the green cup if there are no problems working on the material, the yellow cup if there are questions about some of the material, and/or a red cup if the work on the material has stopped. Provide additional assistance to red cup holders either individually or in small group instruction.
Description: Students can use a variety of signals to indicate their understanding of concepts presented in lessons.
Application: Use these methods as informal assessments for the teacher but also self-assessments for the student.
Process: Provide students with the parameters of each signal activity. Vary them throughout the course to avoid complacency. At regular intervals during a lesson:
Fist to Five: ask students to use their hand to show their depth of understanding with a fist meaning “I don’t understand at all” to showing all five fingers meaning “I understand all of it.” Based on student signals, adjust teaching.
Thumb Up-Thumb Down: direct students to use their thumb to show understanding of a concept. (Thumb up means “I understand all of it,” thumb down means “I don’t understand any of it,” and a thumb to the side means “I still have some questions.”) Based on student signals, adjust teaching.
Colored Cups: Before independent learning, provide students with a green, yellow, and red cup. Tell students to display the green cup if there are no problems working on the material, the yellow cup if there are questions about some of the material, and/or a red cup if the work on the material has stopped. Provide additional assistance to red cup holders either individually or in small group instruction.
References, photo credit, and/or for more information:
3. Student Signals
http://www.theteachertoolkit.com/index.php/tool/non-verbal-signals
http://www.edutopia.org/.../30-techniques-quiet-noisy-class-todd-finley
http://www.trurodaily.com/Opinion/Editorials/2015-07-13/article-4212228/Thumbs-up,-thumbs-down/1
3. Student Signals
http://www.theteachertoolkit.com/index.php/tool/non-verbal-signals
http://www.edutopia.org/.../30-techniques-quiet-noisy-class-todd-finley
http://www.trurodaily.com/Opinion/Editorials/2015-07-13/article-4212228/Thumbs-up,-thumbs-down/1
