For today's staff development activity, SHS faculty members will be analyzing an example of AFL and determining how the example could be applied to their classrooms. Teachers not from SHS are welcome to join in the discussion.
Step 1
Please read the following blog post and watch the video that goes with it:
An AFL review strategy that can be used by any teacher in any content area
Step 2
Discuss this activity with those sitting at your table:
1. Discuss the elements of this activity that would cause it to be considered an AFL-type activity.
2. Compare and contrast the use of the whiteboards in this manner with other review activities.
3. How could you (or how do you) apply these AFL elements or this type of activity in your class?
Step 3
Have one person from your group post the highlights of your discussion as a reply to this discussion.
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2) In this activity vs. other activities, each student was required to answer each question. This is great because no one is sitting around and relying on other students to answer. Also, the activity was not competitive which took some pressure off of students who are struggling with the material to perform for points to win a game with their group.
3) We love to use the SmartPals in the math classes. These come with templates for graphing, organizing data, etc. You can also create your own materials to insert. The students love "coloring" and sharing their answers.
Allie has them have a personal response review where they write their answers on a piece of paper and then they say the answer aloud together, so then they know what they know. Becky has a three column review with do I know it (yes or no), what do I think it is, and what is the correct answer.
Pop quizzes for reviewing reading is one activity Jane uses, and she said her students could instead write their answers on the white boards instead to get immediate feedback.
Emily used white boards to identify parts of speech in a sentence. We discussed using them to identify themes that appear in quotes from pieces of literature or identify characters.
1 - AFL Elements:
- instant feedback to the students
- individualized assessment (each student knows what they need to work on to improve and for their upcoming test)
- everyone is engaged!
- everything Scott already said! :-)
2 - Whiteboards
- Everyone has to work all the time - cannot hide since you're using a whiteboard to convey answers
- very low tech, inexpensive way to review.
3 - Applying the Elements
- could use for term review in Drama, band, choir; basically any type of review that involves terminology or words or short answer phrases.
2. Using the white boards is an easy way to determine who is participating and to encourage all students to participate.
3. In the special education dept., many teachers allow students to use white boards to answer questions so they don't feel intimidated; if they don't know the answer, the whole class doesn't have to know it. Many of our students are kinesthetic learners,as well, so the white boards appeal to that quality. They also make it easy for students to learn through repetition... they can write, erase, write, erase (without putting a hole in their paper.) :)
2) The whiteboards are very interactive, where as a review worksheet is more independent.
3) I use the whiteboards when we are going over the material that tends to lose student interest. They like using the markers, which motivates them to participate.
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