When teachers bring this fun formative assessment game into a lesson, they get a snapshot of what students have understood, and what they haven’t.
“Silent Partners is often an activity that I will do on Formative Fridays,” says Kathy-Ann St. Hill-St. Lawrence, a 2nd-grade teacher at Harford Heights Elementary in Baltimore, MD. “That's when I figure out what I need to plan, going into the next week. So I try to figure out what my kids have grasped, in like a quick snapshot.”
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“Silent Partners is often an activity that I will do on Formative Fridays,” says Kathy-Ann St. Hill-St. Lawrence, a 2nd-grade teacher at Harford Heights Elementary in Baltimore, MD. “That's when I figure out what I need to plan, going into the next week. So I try to figure out what my kids have grasped, in like a quick snapshot.”
Find the full collection of 60-second strategies for every grade level at Edutopia: https://edut.to/3Rm2M2j
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