Self-Evaluation and Reflection Tool: Back-to-School Bellringers

The Self-Evaluation and Reflection Tool: Back-to-School Bellringers for Middle School English Language Arts is an ideal formative assessment to carry out with your students during the initial two weeks of school, while you're checking attendance.

Each day, students are required to complete a brief survey consisting of 5-8 questions, followed by a daily self-reflection question, over eight days. For convenience, each page includes two identical surveys, facilitating easy duplication.

The surveys in this Self-Evaluation and Reflection Tool: Back-to-School Bellringers cover a range of topics such as Time Management, Concentration and Memory, Note-taking, Test-taking, Attitude and Motivation, Active Reading, and Writing.

The brief surveys included encourage students to reflect on their various habits, practices, and skills with first-person affirmations, like keeping track of tasks by noting them in a planner, studying in a distraction-free environment, annotating texts while reading, creating study aids like flashcards for tests, paying attention to their thoughts during reading, seeking help when needed, re-reading to comprehend their reading, and reviewing their writing for grammatical errors. They can respond with either Always, Usually, Sometimes, or Never.

Each survey ends with a consistent self-reflection question: "Choose one statement from the survey where you did not mark 'Always' and reflect upon it. What could you change?"

The surveys may be used as formative assessments to inform further instruction. They can also be used in interactive notebooks for students to compare beginning to end of the year responses and how they might have changed.

This resource pairs nicely with my lesson plan: Academic Progress and Citizenship for Middle School Students: Goals and Reflections. In this lesson plan, students learn how to set attainable academic and citizenship goals for each grading period. At the end of the grading period, they reflect on their goals, their successes, their challenges, and what they did to overcome them. Then they repeat the process for each grading period. At the end of the year, they reflect on their experience with setting goals for the year.

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