Transforming Education
Growth Mindset Strategies
Help your students develop a growth mindset with a list of sample strategies for prioritizing efforts instead of results.Pupils learn how to embrace mistakes, set high expectations, and focus on process over product.
Missouri Department of Elementary
R-E-S-P-E-C-T: A Basic Skill
Imagine seventh graders developing a school wide plan to promote respect in their school. That's the vision behind the second lesson in the R-E-S-P-E-C-T series. In preparation for designing a school-wide media campaign, class members...
Indiana Department of Education
Social Emotional Toolkit
Looking for some tools to help you incorporate social and emotional learning into your curriculum? Then check out this 79-page kit packed with ideas for developing social-emotional learning competencies. The first section provides...
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Student Self Assessment: Progress With Number Sense
Sixth graders will be able to identify areas of growth and areas where performance needs improvement.
Reading Rockets
Reading Rockets: Assessment of English Language Learners
This resource includes a 45-minute webcast with George Mason University education professor Dr. Lorraine Valdez Pierce, discussion questions, sample assessment tools, and other resources. Sample assessment tools are available as...
TES Global
Tes: Self Assessment Review
[Free Registration/Login Required] This adaptable rubric can be used by students to self-assess their progress on a project. This version is designed for science students but is editable for any course.
TES Global
Tes: Leaflet Self Assessment to Support Holes by Louis Sachar
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students will create a leaflet that will persuade classmates to read the book Holes, a young adult book written by Louis Sachar. These rubric resources will used for peer assessments and self-assessments.
Donald Clark
Leadership Self Assessment Activity
A self-assessment on leadership qualities. Great for both teachers and students looking to evaluate their own leadership potential! Could also be used to look at skills/vocabulary associated with leadership.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Editing Checklist for Self and Peer Editing
Use this printable template to help students self-assess their own writing as well as provide meaningful feedback for their peers.
Scholastic
Scholastic: Challenge Your Top Students
Here are 10 ways to meet the needs of your advanced learners and help the rest of your class too! You decide which strategies are the best match for your students' needs and your teaching style.
Other
West Virginia Dept. Of Education: Teach 21: Examples of Formative Assessment
When incorporated into classroom practice, the formative assessment process provides information needed to adjust teaching and learning while they are still happening. The process serves as practice for the student and a check for...
Utah Education Network
Uen: Looking at Punctuation
This lesson engages students in reading comprehension strategies related to high interest articles. Students will participate in reading aloud from various texts and analyzing punctuation in sentences. Students will follow author models...
Utah Education Network
Uen: Reading Fluency
This lesson engages learners in reading fluency practice. Teachers will modeling auditorily, use timed self-assessments, and ensure partners give feedback to motivate the students.
Other
An Ethical Island: Feedback Q and a Infographic [Pdf]
This is an excellent infographic to post prominently in the classroom that will encourage productive discussions between teachers and students as well as help in directing student self-talk. It presents ten questions that students can...
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Colonial Literature: Slave Narratives
This lesson focuses on Colonial period slave narratives including the autobiography, "The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano" by Olaudah Equiano. Links are provided to the narrative and the website Africans in America:...
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Realism: "The Outcasts of Poker Flat" by Bret Harte
This lesson focuses on the short story "The Outcasts of Poker Flat" by Bret Harte who uses stereotypical but realistic characters to invent the culture of the "Old West." This story is an example of Regionalism, a sbu-genre of Realism....
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Realism: "To Build a Fire" by Jack London
This lesson focuses on the short story "To Build a Fire" by Jack London which provides a good example of Naturalism, the relationship between man and nature. It features links to a PDF study guide and an online copy of the text. After...
Arizona State University
Arts Work: Communicating Feelings Through Shape & Color
A lesson plan to help learners understand the use of symbols and images to express their feelings through their artwork. A great lesson plan to boost students' self esteem. Has a link to a site with examples of Kandinsky's work.
Arizona State University
Arts Work: Communicating Feelings Through Shape & Color
A lesson plan to help learners understand the use of symbols and images to express their feelings through their artwork. A great lesson plan to boost students' self esteem. Has a link to a site with examples of Kandinsky's work.
Concord Consortium
Concord Consortium: Stem Resources: Molecular Self Assembly
A series of science simulations exploring how molecules assemble themselves and how scientists are learning to engineer their structure. Students will discover what patterns molecules form with interactive lessons. At the end there is a...
Other
Storytelling to Assess Speaking and Listening
An effective use of rubrics that encourages the student storyteller how to determine if his/her audience is listening. Learn about the different listening skill rubrics, storytelling rubrics and a self-assessment guide that asks the...
Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University
De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: Graphic Organizer Assessment Rubric [Pdf]
During this assignment, students will design their own clear, correct, and complete assessment rubric. A grading rubric is included.
McGraw Hill
Glencoe: Self Check Chapter Test Multiplying and Dividing Decimals
Students are assessed on decimal multiplication and division. The self-checking test includes hints and solutions.
McGraw Hill
Glencoe: Self Check Chapter Test Adding and Subtracting Decimals
Students are assessed on decimal addition and subtraction. The self-checking test includes hints and solutions.