Going through the nine strategies these last few weeks, has made me realize that I want to make a concerted effort this coming year to focus on two areas. They are providing feedback and recognizing effort. I think I have always known that it was important to give feedback on in class discussion, assignments, writings, and tests, but I think over the last couple of weeks I've discovered a new tool that I can use. I really want to have my students submitting their work online prior to final draft, so that they can get comments and feedback, make corrections, if necessary, then submit their final work. I think this can be huge for me and for them. I also want to create rubrics for all work, so that the objectives are clearly laid out and I can focus on them when I'm grading.
The second area is recognizing effort. I really feel like there is a problem at my school with students feeling that they can just go through the motions and do marginal work and feel like they deserve an A or a B. I think this year I'm going to try and incorporate some of the characteristics of effort into my calculations. I think that this will be a good way to encourage the top level students to push their capabilities and reward the average students who really do give their absolute best effort to succeed. I'm looking forward to the year and these changes.
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