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  • Teacher Toolbox
    • Thinking Routines
    • Comprehension Strategies
    • Metacognition Strategies
    • Discourse Strategies
    • Formative Assessments Strategies
  • Professional Resources
    • Common Core
    • Cultures of Thinking
    • Life-Long Learners
    • Reading & Vocabulary
    • Standards Based Grading
    • Writing
  • Our Journey
    • Hart Middle School
    • Reuther Middle School
    • Rochester High School
    • Van Hoosen Middle School
    • West Middle School
  • Creative Ideas
  • Conferences
    • Moving Learning Forward 2015 Conference
    • Moving Learning Forward 2014 Conference

Four Fingers

Description:
Four fingers is a type of formative assessment.  It is meant
to see if students know the answer to a multiple choice question.

How to use the Strategy:
*Strategy can be used any time -  Even for checking homework!
  1. Give students a multiple choice question. 
  2. Have students identify their answer by holding up 
  3. One finger for “a”, two fingers for “b”, three fingers for “c” and four fingers for “d”.
  4. Teacher mentally notes students’ agreement/disagreement with the false fact and their reasoning.
  5. Teacher adjusts his/her teaching for the remaining part of the class period or for the next day.



Resources
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2. Select the save button in the right hand corner
3. Open the saved document
4. Select File>Print
5. Change Page Scaling setting to Booklet Printing
6. Change Booklet Subset to Both sides
7. Press OK
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