423: Try this Multimodal End-of-Year Review & Reflection

The countdown started yesterday in my kitchen, as my daughter flipped the calendar forward for something and realized she had less than thirty days of school left. She loves her teacher and looks forward to school, so she felt sad. It launched her into a story about how her class is trying to convince her teacher to move to the next grade with them. If you, too, are starting to plan ahead and think end-of-year thoughts, today I want to share a way to help students review and reflect on the year in one multimodal activity. I've had requests in The Lighthouse for ways to help students reflect on their own learning - to tell their own learning story. Research backs the importance of metacognitive reflection for students - in other words, it's helpful for them to think not only about what they've learned, but also how they've grown and developed as learners, and where they might want to go next. Before we dive in, feel free to grab the free curriculum that goes along with this episode. Everything pictured below and discussed throughout the episode is already set up to make this activity as easy to implement for you as possible! And yes, the handouts are editable so you can tweak them to suit your own twist on the activity. Grab the free curriculum for this activity: https://sparkcreativity.kartra.com/page/endofyearhexagons  Go Further:  Explore alllll the Episodes of The Spark Creativity Teacher Podcast. Grab the free Better Discussions toolkit Join our community, Creative High School English, on Facebook. Come hang out on Instagram.  Enjoying the podcast? Please consider sharing it with a friend, snagging a screenshot to share on the 'gram, or tapping those ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ to help others discover the show. Thank you!