Teacher Review Record
With the technique Teacher Review Record, you keep a written record of students’ performance in active review activities, such as Monthly and/or End-Of-Topic Review.
Why use this technique?
If students know you are going to keep a record of their performance in Monthly and End-Of-Topic Review, it can encourage them take these more seriously than they would have otherwise, motivating them to study.
The records can be useful for reporting students’ progress to parents.
Perhaps most usefully, if they are carefully designed, Teacher Review Records can help signpost areas that require re-teaching. For example, if an End-Of-Topic Review activity has been carefully structured so that each task is assessing specific knowledge or skills, analysis of the class ‘performance by task’ should highlight areas of relative strength and weakness. In this way, formal assessments (such as End-Of-Topic Review) can be used both summatively (total scores) and formatively (scores by task, signposting next steps).
Focused reflection
How well do you currently use this technique?
Is it a technique you will focus on developing?
If so, what are the key features you will focus on (things to do, and not do)?