Assessment Tips and Strategies

Instruction and Motivation Tips and Strategies

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Alignment, Alignment, Alignment 
Ask Students to Take a Deep Breath
Avoid Multiple Choice, True-False, and Matching
Clarify the Response
Coaching Rubrics
Classic De-Motivators In The Classroom
Criteria for Credit
Congruence
Delayed Testing 
Connect Content to Students’ Positive, Emotional Experiences
Knowledge Wall
Differentiate
Mastery Lock
Elicit Physical Representations
Preparation for Multiple Choice, True-False, and Matching of System Assessments 
Enhance the Likelihood of Intrinsic Motivation
Reversed Rubrics 
Exude Enthusiasm
Separate Assessment from Evaluation
Frame It Positively
Sort by Concepts
Give Warning
Standards of Excellence 
Have Groups Generate Questions
Student-Developed Rubrics 
Juke Box Break
Tight and Clear Focus
Just Say It – Keep it Simple, Clear, and to the Point
  Launch Buttons
  Musical Engagements
  One-Step-at-a-Time Directions
  Play Up-Beat Music for Transitions
  Provide Audiences
  Provide for “Motivating” Feedback
  Provide Response Opportunities
  Respect (v)
  Sort by Concepts
  The 16 Strategy Commandments
  Use Brain-writing before Brainstorming
  Use Music as a Safety Zone
  Use Non-Judgmental Feedback