One of the great ways to assess a lesson that has been taught is to utilize a quick formative assessment or questioning to determine the success of the lesson. After a lesson, when using Classcraft, I can choose to use The Wheel of Destiny to randomly choose a student to answer a question about the …
Classcraft Quest
Each year at the end of the year, I assign the students a quest. They are usually apprehensive because they are unsure as to what is going to unfold, especially since I know what is about to happen: Someone is going to lose all of their gold that they have saved so carefully for a …
Using Classcraft to appeal to your students’ need for competition
I can remember sitting in on a Professional Development session back in 2014 on “Gamifying Your Classroom,” and I walked out of there thinking, “That’ll never work!” The ugly truth is that I tuned out during the session on Classcraft because I thought that it was complicated. I was wrong! I ran across Classcraft by …