This assessment requires students to work together using whiteboards to solve problems together. The temporary aspect of a whiteboard helps students to be less afraid of making mistakes.
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TIP Assessment
This assessment requires students to respond to a short survey about how well they think they understand a series of concepts. They also have to provide an explanation so the teacher knows how in-depth their understanding is.
Thumbs Up, Thumbs Down Assessment
This assessment requires students to give visual feedback to a teacher during instructional time based on how well they currently understand what is being taught.
3-2-1 Assessment
This assessment requires students to reflect on their learning based on things they learned, things they are struggling with, and things they can use the next day.
Ten-Two Assessment
This assessment requires students to debrief and think through what they have learned for two minutes after ten minutes of instructional time.
A Kagan Structure Overview
This is the overview to Kagan Cooperative Learning structures and why they enhance the classroom experience more than traditional classrooms or group work.
Simultaneous RoundTable Structure
This structure is a variation on the RoundTable structure, where students are working simultaneously on individual problems.
Showdown Structure
This structure activates the competitive nature of students, organizing a game that requires all students to contribute to finding the correct answer, first independently and then together.
RoundTable Structure
This structure forms student teams where members of the team take turns contributing to the same problem.
RallyTable Structure
This structure requires students to take turns contributing to a single problem.
Quinn Kendall, Educator 