Teaching Students to Self-Assess: How do I help students reflect and grow as learners? (ASCD Arias)

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In this essential guide, Starr Sackstein—a National Board Certified Teacher—explains how teachers can use reflection to help students decipher their own learning needs and engage in deep, thought-provoking discourse about progress. She explains how to help students set actionable learning goals, teach students to reflect on and chart their learning progress, and use student reflections and self-assessment to develop targeted learning plans and determine student mastery. Filled with practical tips, innovative ideas, and sample reflections from real students, this book shows you how to incorporate self-assessment and reflection in ways that encourage students to grow into mindful, receptive learners, ready to explore a fast-changing world.

Introduction

What Is Reflection and Why Should We Teach It?

Getting Started with Reflection

Teaching Students to Self-assess

Making Time to Reflect

Using Data from Reflection to Assess for Learning

About the authors

Starr Sackstein is the COO of Mastery Portfolio and a veteran educator, including nine years at World Journalism Preparatory School in Flushing, New York, as a high school English and journalism teacher. She completed her advanced leadership certification at SUNY New Paltz.

She is a National Board–Certified educator and certified as a Master Journalism Educator by the Journalism Education Association, where she served as New York State director from 2010 to 2016. She is the author of many books, including Assessing with Respect and Peer Feedback in the Classroom.

At speaking engagements around the world, Starr speaks about journalism education, bring your own device policies, and throwing out grades. In 2022, she was included in the inaugural class of ASCD's Champions in Education.