What is Checking for Understanding (CFU)?

Why is CFU important?

• Allows you to make instructional decisions during the lesson
  
• Monitor student progress in real time so as not to wait until formal assessments in order to revise lessons.
  
• To ensure that students are not practicing and reinforcing mistakes - Practice makes permanent, not perfect

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CFU Strategies:

• Use individual whiteboards - each student can write his answer down and hold the whiteboard up so you can see it.
• Exit tickets = very short quizzes at the end of every lesson. The students will answer one or two quick question at the end of the lesson and hand it back to you as they leave the room. No grades - it's a feedback for the teacher (and the students have great opportunity to revise and fix the main thought of the lesson again.) Tell the students you will evaluate their answers and give them some feedback. They will not be graded based on these but they can gain some extra points if their answers were right.

CFU methods are also very good for students engagement. Because if they know they will have to write their answer down to the whiteboard, if they have this kind of constant interaction, it's going to keep them involved and engaged.



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