How to Look at Student Work to Uncover Student Thinking

The insight you'll gain will help you infer what students are thinking, provide effective feedback, decide on next instructional moves, and grow as a professional. Brookhart and Oakley then guide teachers through the next steps: clarify learning goals, increase the quality of classroom assessments, deepen your content and pedagogical knowledge, study student work with colleagues, and involve students in the formative learning cycle.

Key Features

• Infer what students are thinking
• Provide effective feedback
• Decide on next instructional moves
• Grow as a professional

Additional Information

The book's many authentic examples of student work and teacher insights, coaching tips, and reflection questions will help readers move from looking at student work for correctness to looking at student work as evidence of student thinking.