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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