Key Teaching Practices
New to Classkick? Check out these three Key Teaching Practices that are enhanced using Classkick.
Are you a Classkick Veteran? Flip to the back side for four additional Teaching Practices and how to
achieve them in Classkick?
1: Maintain good communication skills
Successful teachers build rapport with their students and feel their needs as individuals. Open and clear
communication is the key to developing a healthy, friendly learning atmosphere inside your class. In
Classkick, you can always see what students are working on in real-time so you can provide feedback
when they need it most. Give students extra support when they’re completely stuck and aren’t sure how to
proceed. Build students’ confidence by recognizing when they persevere through struggles. Keep a
permanent record of all their work and your feedback in Classkick!
2: Get students engaged
There is nothing as challenging as getting students engaged. They can easily get bored or disconnected.
To fight off this problem, make your teaching student-centered. In Classkick, students move at their own
pace to demonstrate mastery on their terms. They can respond to questions in the way that best suits their
strengths: by drawing, typing, recording audio, adding an image, or linking to a website. You see each
student’s work appear in real-time and respond when they need you most.
12/16 Students Present
2/8 Pts
Andrew
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A point in geometry is a location. It has no size
i.e. no width, no length and no depth. A point
is shown by a dot.
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Vincent is helping
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Using the diagram, name all points on plane O
A line is defined as a line of points that
extends infinitely in two directions. It has one
dimension, length. Points that are on the
same line are called collinear points.
3: Be clear and precise in your instructions and modeling
Students struggle with ambiguous and unclear instructions. Demonstrate or provide a model that
students can consult while working. In Classkick, you can model on your device while each student
watches and make notes on their own version of the assignment. Want to share an exemplar? Paste it into
a question or project the student’s work. Any changes that you make in Classkick appear in real-time to
all of your students so you can adapt an assignment and provide additional scaffolding in response to
students’ needs on the fly!
Key Teaching Practices
New to Classkick? Check out these three Key Teaching Practices that are enhanced using Classkick.
Are you a Classkick Veteran? Flip to the back side for four additional Teaching Practices and how to
achieve them in Classkick?
4: Individualize learning
Students learn in different ways and at different speeds. Provide a variety of resources and activities to
allow students to learn and demonstrate mastery in a way that best suits their learning style. In
Classkick, your assignments can include drawings, text, images, audio, videos, and links to provide
students with content in a variety of ways. Encourage students to choose the content delivery method
that helps them best discover and interact with the information, and to move throughout your Classkick
assignment at their own pace.
5: Provide positive feedback
To encourage students, use specific praise like “Your topic sentence is clear and captures the reader’s
attention,” or “Great solution. You used all the facts and came up with a clever new idea.” In Classkick,
you can provide this praise privately and show your students that you are celebrating their
achievements. You can even save commonly used pieces of feedback with stickers and points to give
to students quickly!
This is a wonderful example of how to use
all the facts to come up with a new solution!
6: Involve students in decision making
Students perform well when they feel that they are real parts in the teaching and learning operation.
Encourage them to investigate certain topics within classroom assignment. In Classkick, give them
the wheel and let them lead. Project a student’s assignment and have them model for their
classmates, or ask students to research and report on their findings in an assignment.
7: Use peer learning
Peer learning enhances the value of student-student interactions. Facilitate peer learning in
Classkick by enabling Peer Helpers. With this option, any student that raises their hand can be seen
by their peers as anonymous classmate that needs help. Students can jump in to provide feedback
and help to dramatically increase the amount of feedback being provided in your classroom!
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