Try out this end-of-year reflection activity where students create infographics that provide advice for incoming students. Your year has gone well…with both ups and downs. All major assessments are over and you are headed into the last week of school. Now what? Well, this is a time for ...
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Privacy PolicyProviding meaningful feedback during end-of-year conferences
During your end-of-year conferences, provide meaningful feedback for students that they can actually comprehend and improve upon in the upcoming year. As we come to the end of the year, we are all thinking about the feedback we need to provide students before they leave our classrooms for good. ...
Two end-of-year activities that you maybe haven’t thought of…
These two engaging end-of-year activities are not typically done in the classroom but could be just what your students need! Sometimes I feel like the end of the school year is one crazy mess. I am running around trying to get final assessments done while also checking my standards ...
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