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C3B4ME = See Three Before (You Come Back To) Me!


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Name one quick and easy-to-use formative assessment technique you can use tomorrow?

On my teacher travels, I regularly quote a tried-and-trusted teacher technique I've used for 25 years. However, despite 3,000 blogs on this site, I have never written about it!

As stated in the blog post title, the acronym C3B4Me stands for 'See Three Before Me.'

Using formative assessment vocabulary

The technique is used as a formative assessment tool to encourage students to self-regulate their learning by checking the work that they've completed with peers in their classroom. This is a fantastic workload strategy for teachers to

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Posted in Assessment, Basic Account, Teaching and Learning, Workload IdeasTagged Assessment, C3B4Me, Cognitive Science, Formative Assessment, metacognition, Neuroeducation, peer learning, Questioning, Self-regulation, student independence, teacher workload

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