As teachers look to the new school year, most are searching for ways to make quality more important than quantity. It’s a shift to making every problem, essay, writing stronger rather than longer. Here are a few ideas to tuck away as you plan.
- Plan activities that promote student skill development while interacting with others. Sharing ideas and understandings add building blocks to their understanding of any topic. It’s a chance to share, evaluate, and come to decisions based on discovery based on facts gathered and assessed.
- Set attainable standards but encourage students to each beyond your expectations, to challenge their understanding, to question information.
- Share your work standards. They may look something like this:
- Head your work properly – name, subject, date, stated topic as needed.
- Meet the timeline (date due).
- Work for neatness so others can easily read your work.
- Understand the specific goal for completing your assignment.
- Spend time editing and revising you work to make it as clear/succinct as possible to others
- Revisit and evaluate your scored work with the goal of better understanding how to strengthen your outcome on future assignments.