Strategy I pledge I am going to use in the upcoming month...
An extended formative assessment probe:
Post-it note activity with pictures posted to twitter of student opinions before and after a lesson/discussion. Students are going to answer a very difficult multiple choice question with a blue post-it note first. Then they are going to talk to their partner and then in a group of four. After those conversations, they will repost their answer after the conversations. Finally, there will be a whole class discussion and a final post-it note vote on a different chart. This will compare one group's answers over time. This is a Page Keely formative assessment activity.
However, my technology twist will be to take pictures of different class periods to help students see the thought progression data of other classes. This will provide students that opportunity to be metacognitive as the analyze their own and other's thinking.
I will probably use this with the question, "Should antibiotics be used on healthy livestock to increase the growth rate and reduce feed costs?" I'll have students use their post-it notes at the beginning of class and at the end of class to see if their positions have changed. I think I'll have students write their primary reasoning on the post-it note as well. I am looking forward to posting the results of this activity in mid-April.
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