Go with the Flow
Purpose
Students analyze incorrect assessment questions using a step-by-step flow map.
Materials
- graded assessment
- Go with the Flow handout (printed or projected)
- notebook paper (if projected)
- template
Instructions
- Students choose 1 question they missed on a graded assignment.
- Using the Go with the Flow template, they think about their mistake: guessing, careless, stopped too soon, or mixed things up.
- Using the Rise and Shine strategy, students get a partner, talk about their mistake, and develop a correction plan.
- Repeat steps 1-3 with another incorrect item and a new partner.
- Students write about how to avoid making that same mistake in the future in their journals or notes.
- Teacher sees and hears student’s thinking and clarifies/verifies as appropriate.
Classroom Management
Model the use of the Go with the Flow template as a think-aloud and ensure everyone gets a partner. Students who made a 100 select the most difficult question and do the activity over mistakes one MIGHT make on this question.
Differentiation
Promote access by pairing with a supportive peer, assisting students in selecting the appropriate question to analyze, allowing students to dictate responses to a scribe, and/or using student/teacher summary notes.
Think It Up!
Choose a Think It Up question as an exit ticket or a journal entry as evidence of learning.
Encourage students to use lead4ward’s Thinking Stems or Spanish Thinking Stems to frame responses.
- Generalize what type of mistake you make most often and how you can avoid these errors in the future
- Develop a plan for learning the concepts better on which you were “mixed up” or “guessed.”
