Teaching students how to correctly answer questions benefits students with disabilities and gifted and talented students, all subjects and interests, and teaches students how to work hard while balancing fun. Most importantly, this unit creates a sense of community and positive character building, two of the most important aspects of successful classroom management. Surprisingly, students with lower ability and gifted students will miss the same problems, but for different reasons. This unit is great for helping even the smarties be more open minded to the idea of making a mistake, and to try to hunt for it in their completed assignment. I've noticed these subgroup of children often uses internal reasoning to justify why their answer is right, and they've got evidence to do it. But by this point, it seems the student has already made up his or her mind on the correct answer, and thus is blind and unable to see any mistakes.
Benefits:
Increase attention span with self checking and movement with tools
Build student confidence with written and multiple choice responses, reading assessments, and teaching students to
defend their answers
Prevent mistakes to help students earn scores reflective of ability
Encourages parent involvement
Teach students to keep the academic expectation high while balancing fun
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Swagger Assessment Skills Test Prep and Evidence on MC/ER Questions Unit
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2. Created by Miss Crosby
Inspired by Mrs. Laurie Bryantâs original
âSwagger Test Prepâ idea
Edited and Tested by Miss Crosbyâs Students
Much thanks to the graphic designers that allowed
this unit to be so appealing to students. Also, thank
you to Sienna family who inspired the unit!
9. As you watch the following
video, think about why are
these guys #Swaggerskills
Masters.
Hint: When you think âvan,â do you think
cool, and/ or hot? (No, you shouldnât.)
11. Having a safe car is more
important than looking
âcoolâ and âhotâ while
driving. These parents
have two young children,
and new priorities.
Instead of looking cool,
they want to be safe.
These parents find a way
to turn safe into cool!
Soooo why are
these guys
?!
12. Sooo, whatâs the
punch line?
Regardless of your age, subject, interests,
or school, you will always have assessments.
Take your time now to master understanding
assessment strategies. Gradually, these steps
will become a quick habit for you. From here on
out, let the scores you earn reflect your actual
ability. Thus, if you must learn these skills (you
must), you might as well have a little fun. So,
be cheesy, laugh, have fun, stay positive, and
learn to love working hard.
13. Use the acronym
SWAGGER to remember
the skills and resources to become
a #Swaggerskills Master. The
following slides break down each
letter.
27. Fill in the Blanks (okay, now you can peak)
maintain
hunt
evidence
difficult
smile
rewritten
patience
reasoning
defend
notes
topic
active
retain
courage
correct
focused
28.
29.
30.
31. Now that you understand
the skills, itâs time to earn
your #Swaggerskills Master status.
Earn a dog tag for each letter of the
acronym by demonstrating mastery of
that specific skill.
32. 1. You will get a blank
swagger board. Everyone
needs to tape it to the
same safe place.
You earn
this. You tape this
on your
swagger
board.
34. 4. The final step to
becoming a
#Swaggerskills Master is
to demonstrate your
ability to walk and/or
dance with swagger.
35.
36. After youâve earned all your dog tags,
youâve shown youâve mastered the
certificate! Now all you need to do is
practice your swagger dance skills and
help your classmates be ready for their
certificate, too!
38. As your name is called, you may show us your swagger
moves on your way to receive your swagger certificate.
39. A letter was
sent home asking
parents/ kids to donate
a $5 each total. The
students chose to bring
in the money to buy the
swagger kits. You will
find the best deals and
pricing in the teacher
directions.
40. Visible Test Taking Strategies
1. Use a dry
erase marker to complete while
taking test.
2. Clean checklist with a tissue.
3. Throw tissue away.
4. Put back the checklist and
marker.
41. Once you know your swagger
strategies, you can enhance your performance
by effectively learning the reading and language arts
buzz words inside and out. Check out the Reading
Vocab Swagger which includes:
five sets of thirty words (150 total)
student created memory tricks and helpful
examples for each
graphic organizer templates, student print
outs, and answer sheets
multiple choice and extended answer quizzes
42. A Major Thanks to the Following Graphic
Designers
Click on the icons to be taken to
each designerâs Etsy page.