In recent weeks, I have been re-reading Wiliam & LEahy’s Embedding Formative Assessment. @druinok has shared that ASCD Express had many articles on Feedback in the most recent issue. Somewhere in the reading / discussion, I recalled hearing about a green pen. Who was it? Almost immediately, @druinok shared a link, which led to other’s posts as well.
From Amy Gruen over at Square Root of Negative One… a progression of her posts as her use of green pens evolved…
Green Pen is the New High Five 2012
Giving Immediate Feedback without Breaking a Sweat 2015
And from Simplifying Radicals
Amy mentions Frank’s Orange Pens… in one of the posts. My colleague and I have a similar system set up with our semester long spiraling Equations & INequalities Units. You can read about it here. I have everything updated and ready to begin next Monday for the Spring Semester!
Yes – this was the idea I was looking for – I believe it was @marybourassa who shared they use a pen on quizzes / assessments when giving students support, this way she knows who / how much she has given input. I have tried this on several occasions and love that it feels like I have annotated our conversation right on the student’s paper. AND I can quickly see what the student did with our conversation as well.
Sometimes bellwork seems so, uh, I don’t know – useless. Students wait on me to give the answers and just copy it down. This way – I work with 4 or 5 students up front, then they become the teacher. I can be available to those who are really struggling.
I have done this strategy before in my senior class last year. It was pretty successful for the most part. Yes, there are a couple of students I had to keep an eye on – but isn’t that sometimes the case? I really have no idea why I’ve never carried it over to my Algebra I.
Well, guess what? My green pens are ordered.
I’ll let you know how it goes! And yes, I did order the Flair! #feedbackwithflair
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