One of the many perks of being an Instructional Technology Coordinator is my ability to see numerous classrooms in action around our district daily. Concept and skill reviews have defintely come a LONG way from mere worksheets! Check out some amazing ideas for concept reviews:
- No Devices, No Problem: Try Plickers: Paper cards printed by the teacher that students use to respond to multiple choice or T/F questions. The teacher then uses a cell phone or ipad to "scan or pan" the room to "collect" responses from students. See this week's KISD Video Series: EVIDENCE OF LEARNING to see Plickers In Action in Ms. Pittman's 6th Grade classroom.
Video Series: EVIDENCE OF LEARNING
KMS: Ms. Pittman
Click on the link below the see the video!
- Speed Dating:
https://www.maneuveringthemiddle.com/math-review-games/
Speed Dating is a review game in which students are paired and face each other. I often would turn my room into 3 rows of pairs (6 total), going the length of the room. Students become experts at a specific problem and then switch partners and get a new problem to solve. Since each partner is an expert at their own problem, students should be able to help each other if needed. I used whiteboards to show work and had a recording sheet for students to turn in and keep track. Students would have time to become experts and I would check their work. Then, we would set the timer. Student would switch problems with their partner, work the new problem, check, and get their original question back. Time goes off, one row of students switch.
- Collaborative Review: Collaborative Review has always been really engaging for students. To use a “peer review and teach” approach to reviewing, put students in groups (3 to a group)and assign them a topic or skill. Give them a set amount of time to create a poster that reviews the skill. They can even come up with a few questions that assess the skill. When the groups have finished their posters,have them present the skills to the class for some great review and reteaching. They use their posters to teach the skill to the class, and then they ask questions about the skill to have the class review the skill with them. After the students present their posters to the class, hang these up in the hall for an excellent student work display.
- Gallery Walk: This idea has been shared online, in numerous trainings and workshops, by Region VII, used on several campuses, and successfully implemented by many of our KISD teachers. In order to adapt as a concept review strategy, think of using this as a single problem or even test question, if you will, type of "poster". The teacher prepares for the activity by creating a group of test question or problem posters. You will need enough questions or problems for each group to have a different one to start with during the rotation. Students work in groups, using different colored markers to respond to particular parts of the question or answer choices using their group's designated color. Next the groups rotate and then respond again to the a different part of the question or you may even choose to have students, at this point answer the question or solve the problem using their marker color and so on and so on through out each group rotation.
Cool Idea: Digital Resources:
The Noun Project
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