Laura Garside is a teacher of Science at Hodgson. Here, she shares her AFL Baskets that have engaged the students so much as well as, helping her so much in her first year of teaching!
In my classroom I have 6 Afl Baskets. 2 baskets per table, each basket for 5 students.
Each basket contains, 5 green pens for DIRT, 5 board marker pens for hinge questions on whiteboards, a whiteboard rubber to rub their boards, 5 highlighter pens for literacy/6mark questions for key words, lollypop sticks for questioning (which are numbered, so when I call their number they have to answer a question) or, as a game, they have to give me back their lollypop stick by answering the question and then they will receive a Pause Plus Point and finally my coloured cups.
The students love these cups. There are so many different ways to use them.
Here are some examples:
Each student has a Green, Yellow and Red cup (traffic lights).
•Students can indicate at the start of the lesson how confident they feel on the topic. They hold up the coloured cup in the air to show you so you can see the whole class or they can place it on the table to see. You can then reassess if they have increased their confidence at the end to see if progression as been made.
•Another method is for multiple choice quizzes as mini or normal plenaries. Instead of the students writing the answer down or a letter that represents the answer, you can set the answers as colours and they can hold up the relevant cup in the air. They absolutely LOVE doing this!
•Students can use their 3 cups to show what task they are on throughout the lesson, e.g Warm (green) Hot (yellow) Scorching (red), this then shows differentiation amongst the class and indicates to the teacher if appropriate levels of challenge are being created. You can also on worksheets, put a coloured circle next to each task and, again, the student changes the cup to indicate what task they are on.
There are many more ideas, it's a chance to be creative and it's something different for the students.
It's so easy to have these baskets so that I can just put them on a table and ask them to complete hinge questions, show me their progression, DIRT, quizzes, literacy work and help with questioning. I also think this article is brilliant too. I read it before setting my AFL baskets up!
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/education/schools/the-six-secrets-of-a-happy-classroom-2086855.html
The students love these cups. There are so many different ways to use them.
Here are some examples:
Each student has a Green, Yellow and Red cup (traffic lights).
•Students can indicate at the start of the lesson how confident they feel on the topic. They hold up the coloured cup in the air to show you so you can see the whole class or they can place it on the table to see. You can then reassess if they have increased their confidence at the end to see if progression as been made.
•Another method is for multiple choice quizzes as mini or normal plenaries. Instead of the students writing the answer down or a letter that represents the answer, you can set the answers as colours and they can hold up the relevant cup in the air. They absolutely LOVE doing this!
•Students can use their 3 cups to show what task they are on throughout the lesson, e.g Warm (green) Hot (yellow) Scorching (red), this then shows differentiation amongst the class and indicates to the teacher if appropriate levels of challenge are being created. You can also on worksheets, put a coloured circle next to each task and, again, the student changes the cup to indicate what task they are on.
There are many more ideas, it's a chance to be creative and it's something different for the students.
It's so easy to have these baskets so that I can just put them on a table and ask them to complete hinge questions, show me their progression, DIRT, quizzes, literacy work and help with questioning. I also think this article is brilliant too. I read it before setting my AFL baskets up!
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/education/schools/the-six-secrets-of-a-happy-classroom-2086855.html
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