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Students create index cards with a large green marker circle on one side and a red circle on the other. If they are following along and understand the lesson, the green side of their card is upright and visible to the teacher. When they do not understand something and need clarification, they flip the card to show the teacher the red side.

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Students summarize what was learned in a lesson using 140 characters. Teachers can create a Twitter feed on a bulletin board.

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3 things you didn’t know before, 2 things that surprised you, 1 thing you want to start doing with what you’ve learned written on a card/or respond orally

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A $2 summary entails having students summarize what they have read or learned from a specific lesson. Each word is worth $0.10 and the limit is $2. This causes students to do critical thinking, use different modes of thinking, incorporate math into that thinking, and pay attention to detail. This allows for teachers to gain an overall understanding of students comprehension on the content.

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Flipgrid is technology tool that engages students in an interactive virtual discussion about the content being taught. Students can go to view the teachers' topics, record their responses, and reply to their classmates. Students can see each others videos and self reflect, while building articulate verbal reasoning skills as they respond on grids. Every student has a voice and can personalize their response with the different features on the site.

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Conferencing with students is an opportunity to discuss
assignment expectations and
how well the student is doing in
meeting these. The student is
able to get support in striving areas and ask questions in a dignified
private manner. Conferencing reinforces what the student is doing well and allows for him or her to see and correct their error(s).

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Kahoot is another technology tool (used on phone, iPad, laptop, or computer) that teachers can utilize to track students learning and enforce concepts being taught in class, while keeping students engaged. It is a game based
classroom response system played by the whole class in real time. The games bring a lot of interaction to the classroom and opens up the floor for class discussions. The majority of students enjoy the competitive nature of the game and comment that it helps them retain concepts. Teachers can track the data on students in real time, therefore they can tailor future or even current lessons based on the data gathered.

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For this strategy, teachers provide students with charts and markers (anchor charts or scratch paper) which students will use as they are in their groups of 4-6 students. Within these groups, students wil record a(n) answer(s) to an open-ended question. These charts will be rotated and passed around to each group to assess understanding. This is the time for students to share knowledge they have on a topic covered in class. Once the students finish with the chart, they pass it on to the next group. Once every group has worked on every chart, the teacher should engage students in a student lead discussion about the responses.

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Homework is a great tool for teachers to use for a formative because in most cases, students are required to explain their thinking in homework. So, when teachers analyze this piece of students' work, they gain knowledge about a student’s current knowledge, attitudes, and skills about subject matter. They learn what their students' strengths and weaknesses are in certain subject areas of the content being taught. Analyzing homework also alerts teachers whether or not students need further or special assistance. This strategy gives teachers the opportunity to modify their instruction to be more effective for their students in the future.

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Questioning strategies may be used with individuals, small groups, or the entire class. Effective formative assessment strategies involve asking students to answer higher-order questions such as “why” and “how.” Higher-order questions require more in-depth thinking from the students. They can help the teacher discern the level and extent of the students’ understanding.

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For this assessment strategy, the instructor asks a question, and students are given time to think about the question, how they will answer it, and finally answering the question. After some thought and time, students are then placed in pairs to discuss their responses. At this time, teachers would move around the classroom to observe and listen to the various student discussions. This lets teachers gather insight into the levels of student understanding and comprehension.

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Nearpod is a an engaging and interactive technology tool (used on phone, iPad, laptop, or computer) that teachers can use to track students' learning. This tech tool allows for students to follow along to an interactive presentation as the teacher presents information. Teachers can allow for students to annotate and draw throughout the presentation, embed multiple choice questions that grades student's responses teachers can assess individual or whole class data instantly, input discussion question(s) that strengthens student’s critical thinking skills and where students are encouraged to turn/talk to their peers.

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Depending on the use of this type of formative assessment, it will allow for students to rate their current understanding of new learning, analyze/reflect on their efforts around the learning, and give feedback to teachers on an instructional strategy, materials, and teaching. For this strategy, teachers would have students write at the conclusion of learning (with a sentence starter usually provided) what they know about the topic just  discussed. The materials needed would be paper or sticky notes for the students to write on. Being that TOTD's come at the end of a lesson, unit, or segment of study; it gives teachers a snapshot of the overall student learning and can help influence what and how students are taught the next day.