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Hello! I am Daphnie Pugh a student at the University of South Alabama majoring in elementary education.

Sunday, June 14, 2015

Learning from Students' Productive Struggles

Learning from Students’ Productive Struggles
 By: Gretchen Vierstra


When teachers think about getting ready for assessments, it’s important to think about the role students work can play. The way teachers and students can use their work to learn more about their misconceptions, areas of struggle, progress, and successes. The author, Gretchen Vierstra, states, “There is so much we can learn from it, depending on how we look at it. We may be quickly reviewing an exit ticket so we can adjust the next day’s lesson, or we may be looking at their work more deeply during a multi-day formative assessment lesson.” She states parts how to learning from students’ productive struggles.  

The first part is to capture the formative assessment in action. This is the time to reveal and develop the students understanding. In the next part take a closer look at student thinking and work samples from the classroom. See if you see students collaborating on their own work or on another student’s work to deepen and assess their own understanding of the material.
            
It’s wonderful to see students working through the material with their peers. The way the students think and talk about a subject is so rich, and they are not waiting for the teacher to step in and intervene.  They know it is their job to have that productive struggle. By reading this article the students persevere together. Teachers can assess their students’ understanding, note any remaining misconceptions, and plan for the next day’s lesson with those corrections. I look forward to using the information I learned from this article in my future classroom.



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