SMH Article: Motivating Students with a few simple strategies

Two of the most effective strategies to continually monitor students' learning are "traffic lights" and "fist to five", Shardlow says.

With "traffic lights", students are given red, amber and green disks of paper and teachers get feedback on how students are tracking in their learning by asking them to hold up the appropriate colour to indicate their level of understanding: green for "OK – I could explain this to someone else", amber for "I'm not sure – I get most of it but not all yet" and red for "help – I am lost".

"Fist to five" is similar to traffic lights, but students hold up a number of fingers to indicate their level of understanding.

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