Checking for understanding assignments that a teacher uses to gauge learning needs | Coding assignments |
Community service projects | Concept mapping tasks |
Cooperative and collaborative tasks | Creative assignments such as brainstorming |
Creative writing prompts | Critiquing media |
Decision making exercises | Engineering projects such as robotics |
Essays | Extension exercises that apply what has been learned in class |
Goal-setting assignments | Group discussion or debate |
Integrative learning tasks that making connections between different topics and experiences | Interviewing assignments |
Journaling assignments | Literary analysis |
Media consumption such as watching a documentary or listening to music | Memorization drills for rote learning |
Music composition | Online learning tasks |
Peer teaching or tutoring assignments | Practice exercises |
Practicing a physical activity such as skip rope | Practicing an instrument |
Pre-learning tasks designed to spark interest in an upcoming topic | Preparing presentations for class |
Problem solving exercises | Processing assignments that reflect on what was learned in class |
Reading assignments | Research assignments |
Science experiments | Science fair projects |
Self-reflection exercises | Summarization such as taking notes while reading |
Visual arts projects | Writing composition |
