Checking for understanding

Great article with some really good ideas. I teach high school ELL students, so formative assessments are a key to knowing what is happening with the students in my classroom. I use a variety of the tools that you mentioned. Also, our school district in the last two years has placed a lot of emphasis on putting up objectives, so the students know what they are learning and how to demonstrate what they have learned. Our ELL department has added language objectives as well, so the ELL students know what how the content also relates to their language acquisition.