Student self assessment

Parent/teacher conferences can be a stressful time. There is a lot to prepare for. These 5 tips will help you conduct successful parent teacher conferences with every parent that walks through the door! From conference forms to thank you letters, it's all here!

Check your students’ level of understanding through student goals and self assessment.

Love them of hate them, they are here! It is time for parent teacher conferences. Conferences can be stressful but I actually enjoy them. Teaching is all about building relationships – with students and their families. I approach conferences as another way to deepen our relationship. We have two conferences a year; one the first ... Read More about Top Tips for Parent Teacher Conferences

Self-assessment has a .75 effect size, which means almost two years of growth in one year's time. Self-assessment gets students independent and reflective.

Teaching special education students to self- assess is HARD. Visual self- assessments make it easier. Self- assessment is a skill that everyone needs. And it actually isn’t that hard to fit it in naturally throughout the school day. Many of us are required to provide self assessments for student work in state testing portfolios (hello […]

How do you know your students are learning? ~ B like Bianca

We've all used exit tickets in our classroom for informal assessment, but sometimes it can become boring. Read this post to get exit ticket ideas on how you can engage students with exit slips and still assess your students!

Move it, show it, mark it, and voice it!

Put weekly assessing in the hands of the students with this FREE Weekly Self-Assessment. Great for helping with student behavior. Totally helped with parent communication!

Our favorite fun formative assessment examples are here! Try these formative assessment ideas with your elementary school students, and let us know how they went!