I've been a ClassDojo user since it began, but 2017-2018 was my first year using the "Student Stories" feature. I used it for a daily reflection for my students at the end of each day.
We started out the year with two sentence stems that they were required to write about:
- One thing I am proud of today is...
- One thing I could have done better today is...
Here is an example of a student reflection from the Fall:
Once they mastered that, I had them start adding "because" to their sentences.
Eventually, I gave them more variety of sentence stems to use (with the requirement of choosing at least two per day):
My goals for this were:
- to get my students to reflect on their learning and their behavior
- to improve their keyboarding and writing skills
- to involve parents more in our day to day learning/work - THIS was huge! These daily reflections gave parents a springboard for dinner table conversation!
ClassDojo is implementing "Student Portfolios" in the coming school year - I can't wait to see what is new!
PS - here are some of my favorite last day of school reflections:
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