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Focus on Building Cognitive Skills
Pleasant View Elementary teachers integrate cognitive skills into the curriculum.
Teacher Supported Student Goal Setting
Students have one-on-one weekly meetings with their mentor teachers to articulate long and short term goals, and measure progress in meeting those goals.
Students Showing Assessment Readiness at Pleasant View
When students feel they have mastered content, they request an assessment. PVES teachers developed a way to have students request without interrupting other one-on-one sessions.
Supporting Student-Initiated Assessment
Students who are ready for an assessment write their name and the title of the assessment on the board.
Workshop
Driven by the previous day’s formative assessments, students participate in blended learning stations in different parts of the classroom that feature student choice about the learning modality for that part of the day.
Video Self-Assessment
Students watch their own pre-recorded video footage (of presentations, discussions, etc.) and reflect on their strengths and weaknesses.
Senior Project Oral Presentation Rubric
Students are recorded giving feedback to their peers using the Oral Presentation Rubric as a guide. This allows students to better internalize the expectations of the oral presentation for themselves. The class spends a significant amount of time...
Student Choice of Learning Areas at Trailblazer
Students can self-select where and what to work on, depending on the time of day.
Digitally Sharing Work at Trailblazer
Teachers utilize technology to digitally capture and share student work with families.
Formative Assessment Tool: Plickers
Teachers use Plickers to quickly collect real-time formative data, immediately giving students feedback and determining learning pathways.
Student Voice and Choice - Common Practices
At Trailblazer, students have voice and choice in how they want to learn and show mastery of a concept.