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STRATEGIES FOR CHECKING COMPREHENSION

1) KEEP A LEARNING JOURNAL: Encouraging students to write a journal in which they reflect
about their learnings after a project, week, lesson… is a good option to track their
developments. For the students in charge of writing, it is a good way to realise what they
have learned; for the students that read it, is an excellent option to keep updated and
check for answers if they have doubts. Moreover, writing a journal supposes a
responsibility for students, that will become more autonomous and conscious of their
learning process.
2) EXIT TICKET: The exit ticket is also a good strategy for comprehension checking. It consists
of making students remember concepts, moments, words or any kind of knowledge they
have acquired during the session and tell it to the teacher to exit the class. This strategy
also raises up participation and students’ attention during the lessons. The exit ticket can
be done orally or written, depending on the objectives of the session or the preferences
of the students or teacher.
3) DAILY WARMUPS: This strategy consists on games or activities that are done before
starting the class. Specially if the class is in the first hour in the morning, these games or
activities help them to become focused on what is going to happen afterwards in the
session. The activities can be related to previous sessions as a way to refresh the concepts
before starting a new class. The games/activities should be precise and short so as not to
lose much time of the session but, at the same time, facilitating students’ introduction to
the new day/session.
4) CONCEPT MAP: Creating concept maps is an excellent idea to summarise the content that
has been learned. Sometimes students have difficulties in discriminating which are the
most important elements or concepts when explaining something they have learned.
Creating a concept map helps students to go from the wide to the concrete knowledge
and also helps them to organise ideas and go straight to the point. This technique is very
useful when studying or when doing brainstorming.
5) PERSONAL FEELINGS CARDS: One of the problems when checking comprehension, is that
some students do not admit that they have not understood something because they are
shy. A good way to encourage students to express their doubts without the fear of being
judged is creating personal feeling cards. Every student will have a personal card in which
he/she will rate their level of understanding after a lesson/project/activity. Moreover, this
card can have also some space to write doubts. This way, the next session can start with a
round of solving anonymous questions that may have raised during the previous session.

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