Rebecca's Resources

Group projects are a great way for students to collaborate and create wonderful products. Even though we as teachers do our best to form healthy groups and monitor their progress, it is sometimes difficult to truly know how the group is functioning. This form gives students the opportunity to provide feedback on their group members' contributions and their group's dynamics. I created this likert scale rating and have used it in my middle school classroom for several years. I think it would

If you are like me, the idea of a germy hall pass following kids into the bathroom multiple times a day and then being passed on from kid to kid kind of freaks you out. In my room, I use tear-away individual hall passes that students glue into their notebook at the beginning of each nine weeks. When they want to exit the room, they hand me an exit pass. They must have an exit pass to exit, so this limits the number of trips that they take outside of my classroom. I also give kids two "grumpy

Mastery of content is a major goal of learning. To that end, we teachers want to ensure that our students come to master the content, even if they fail to prove mastery the first time they try. If you are like me, however, you are somewhat leery of retakes. A few years ago, my teammates and I were struggling with how to ensure that students prove mastery without retaking assessments. We drafted a few forms, and this is the one that I ultimately created for my classroom. This corrections hand