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=Student Voice in Discussion and Assessment=


 * Topics on the Page **
 * Building Collaborative Classroom Cultures **


 * Two Lesson Plans for Teaching about Controversy **
 * **Native American Mascots**
 * **Teaching the Atomic Bomb**


 * Debate, Discussion and Dialogue **
 * **Document-Based Class Discussion**
 * **Structured Academic Controversy (SAC)**
 * ** Fishbowls as a Discussion Format **
 * ** Online Discussion Tools **


 * Involving Students in Learning Assessments **
 * **Traditional Assessments**
 * **Alternatives to Traditional Assessments**
 * ** Digital Formative Assessments **
 * **Rubrics**
 * **See Special Topic Page on Quizzes as Active Learning Resources**
 * **Bloom's Taxonomy**
 * **Online Quizzes**
 * **Interactive Video Quizzes**
 * ** Go to TransformingTech wiki for Portfolio Assessment **
 * ** Peer and Self Assessments **



**Building Collaborative Classroom Cultures**
[|Stop Talking . . . and Start Teaching.] Teacher Advocate, Spring 2015

[|How to Give Your Students a Voice: Advice from Someone Who Tries], a blog post from Pernille Ripp (April 2013).

[|Discussing Controversial Public Issues in the Classroom] from Teachinghistory.org

[|Power in the Classroom: Creating the Environment]from ASCD

[|Teaching with the World Peace Game]. John Hunter TED Talk, March 2011.

[|Citizens' Guide to Town Meetings]from the Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth.

[|Full and Part-Time Legislatures] from the National Conference of State Legislatures

Asking Questions
New Classroom Questioning Techniques for the Best Year Ever

**[[image:Screen Shot 2016-01-04 at 11.31.08 AM.png]]Lesson Plans for Teaching about Controversy**


Image on the left is the Flagstaff, Arizona, Sinagua High School JROTC Shoulder Sleeve Insignia. The stylized peaks, on the scroll, symbolize the San Francisco Peaks, one of the highest landmarks in Arizona, and sacred to local Native Americans

These Massachusetts Schools Still Have Native American-themed Nicknames, Mascots and Logos. MassLive (February 16, 2017)

[|2,128 Native American Mascots People Aren't Talking About] from FiveThirtyEight, September 2014.


 * [[image:timeline2_rus.svg.png link="@http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/11/timeline-history-offensive-sports-mascots-redskins-snyder/"]]Timeline: A Century of Racist Sports Team Names**, Mother Jones


 * [|UnLearning Sports Mascots]from FiveColleges in Massachusetts.

Native Americans Blast Redskins Gambit to Defuse Name Controversy with Financial Contributions, March 24, 2014.


 * [|California Racial Mascots Act](2015). California has banned schools in the state from using "redskins" as a name for sports teams.
 * California bars public schools from using Redskins as a team name or mascot The Washington Post (October 12, 2015)
 * [|Lanham Act] (Trademark Act of 1946) as amended by Trademark Act of 1988

[|Showdown: JFK and the Integration of the Washington Redskins]. Thomas G. Smith, Beacon Press, 2011.
 * For more on Native American Mascots and the** **Integration of Professional Football, link to United States History II.26)**


 * Atomic Bombs in World War II**

[|Atomic Bomb Lesson Plan] from Reading Like an Historian, Stanford University

For more on the topic, see United States History II.16



**Debate, Discussion and Dialogue as Teaching Methods**
Comparing Dialogue and Debate, from Educators for Social Responsibility

[|Discussion Strategies: Questions, Reflective Writing and Small Group Work]

How to Have an Equitable Class Discussion

The Big List of Classroom Discussion Strategies
 * Gallery Walk
 * Philosophical Chairs
 * Pinwheel Discussion
 * Socratic Seminar
 * Affinity Mapping
 * Concentric Circles
 * Conver-Stations
 * Fishbowl
 * Hot Seat
 * Snowball Discussion
 * Backchannel Discussions

//Discussion//
 * [|Strategies for Student-Centered Discussion]
 * [|Document-Based Whole Class Discussion]
 * [|5 Ways to Make Class Discussion More Exciting]
 * [|Holding Class Discussions Followed by Writing]
 * [|Dialogic Teaching: Rethinking Language Use during Literature Discussions]
 * [|9 Ways to Improve Class Discussions]

//Debate//
 * [|Structured Academic Controversy (SAC)]
 * [|Debate Learning Strategies]
 * Think-Pair-Share Debate Strategies
 * Tag-Team Debate Strategy
 * [|Four Corners Debate]
 * [|Tennis Debates]
 * Pro/Con.org is an online source of competing positions on controversial issues

//Dialogue//
 * [|Socratic Method]
 * [|Socratic Seminars] from ReadWriteThink
 * [|Choicework Guides]
 * [|Students Learn to Advocate with Reasoned Argument] using Today'sMeet audience participation technology

**Fishbowls as a Teaching Method**
[|Teaching Strategy: Fishbowl] from Facing History and Ourselves

[|The Fishbowl Method] from Edutopia

[|Fishbowl Instructional Method] from Digital Age Teaching & Learning

**Online Discussion Formats**
5 Online Discussion Tools to Fuel Student Engagement

Mock Trials
Overbrook High School Wins Mock Trial

**Traditional Assessments**
[|Constructing Tests] from University of Washington

[|Take Our Quiz on Writing Good Test Questions]

[|Crafting Questions] from Western Washington University

[|Performance vs. Traditional Assessment] from LearnNC

**Quizz****es**
**See Special Topic on Quizzes as Active Learning Resources**



**Alternatives to Traditional Assessment**
Promoting Growth Mindset Through Assessment, National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

Making the Most of Your Writing Feedback, Edutopia (September 29, 2017). Uses the SOAR method in which feedback is:
 * S. specific
 * O. ongoing
 * A. action-oriented
 * R. reasonable

[|Is the Use of Standardized Tests Improving Education in America?] from ProCon.org

[|Testing More, Teaching Less: What America's Obsession with Student Testing Costs in Money and Lost Instructional Time], American Federation of Teachers (2013)

[|What is Authentic Assessment?]

[|Alternatives to Traditional Testing] from University of California Berkeley

Formative Assessment
[|Linda Darling-Hammond video on Formative and Performance Assessments]

Make Formative Assessment More Student-Centered, Common Sense Education

[|10 Fun-Filled Formative Assessment Ideas]

[|Alternatives to Traditional Exams and Terms Papers] from Indiana University Bloomington

[|History Lab: Assessing Student Learning] from University of Maryland. Includes a video showing teachers informally assessing learning during class.

Digital Formative Assessments

Know Students Better: 15 Tools for Formative Assessment

Innovative Formative Assessment: 10 Useful Approaches

Building Hopeful Secondary School Writers Through Effective Feedback, //English Journal// (2017)



**Rubrics**
[|The Power of Student Built Rubrics]

[|Involving Students in Creating Rubrics]

[|Quick Links to Rubrics] for writing, group work, social media projects

[|The Power of Student Built Rubrics]

**Portfolios**
**Go to TransformingTech wiki for Portfolio Assessment**

**Peer Assessments**
[|What is Peer Assessmen]t from Cornell University

[|Using Peer Review to Improve Student Writing]

[|Using Peer Review to Help Students Improve Their Writing]

[|The Role of Peer Assessment in a Maker Classroom]

Giving Peer Feedback Helps Writers Grow, Edutopia (September 7, 2017)

**Student Self Assessment**
[|Student Self-Assessment]

[|Self Assessment Inspires Learning]

[|Strategies to Enhance Student Self Assessment] from Assessment for Learning, Australia

How to Build Self-Assessment into Jam-Packed High School Classes. MindShift (November, 2017)