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The Sweetest Way to Teach Self-Assessment

by Brain Ninjas


A set of cupcake posters hangs on a bulletin board in a classroom. Teach students to self-assess with this rubric that helps take the burden of feedback off your teacher shoulders and helps students truly understand the quality of their work.

Here’s the truth: students don’t always know what “good work” looks like.

They turn in an assignment, you hand it back with feedback, and you can see the confusion in their eyes. “But I thought it was done?” they say. Or worse, they’re genuinely proud of work that’s only halfway there, completely unaware that there’s so much more they could do to make it shine.

Sound familiar?

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Filed Under: Classroom Tips Tagged With: assessment, feedback, Posters, professional development, Professional Learning, self-assessment, student assessment, student feedback

How to Use Collaborative Tasks to Create Classroom Community

by Brain Ninjas

Collaborative tasks help students learn to work together toward the classroom community they want to achieve. Read more about how we use collaborative tasks to build classroom community and learn more about the types of tasks we use.

One of the most effective classroom management strategies is the classroom community you build with your students. We start our school year with collaborative tasks to help students get to know each other. These activities help students learn to communicate and build trust. Collaborative tasks help students learn to work together toward the classroom community they want to achieve.

Come learn more about how we use collaborative tasks in our classroom.

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Filed Under: Teaching Strategies Tagged With: Alberta, Back to School, Brain Ninjas Shop, Bulletin Boards, Classroom Community, Classroom Management, Collaborative Posters, Collaborative tasks, Diwali, Eid, Eid Al-Fitr, group work, Indigenous Cultures, Indigenous People of Canada, Posters, Remembrance Day, research, research skills, Teachers Pay Teachers, Teamwork

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