Active Monitoring in Action: Feedback That Moves Students to Mastery
On-Demand Course for Educators and School Administrators
Eligible for 1 CEU from Northshore Learning
Total Time Required: 1 Hour (video + guided work time)
ABOUT THIS COURSE
Do you want to get more out of student independent work time but aren’t sure where to start? This course is for you.
Active Monitoring is a practical, research-aligned approach to giving students immediate, just-in-time feedback while they are working.
It helps students develop skills more quickly while giving teachers real-time information about misconceptions to guide reteaching and instructional decisions.
This asynchronous course combines short instructional videos with guided work time, so you can immediately apply what you learn to your own classroom practice.
WHAT YOU WILL LEARN
- What active monitoring is and why it matters
- How to plan for active monitoring by unpacking a standard and creating an exemplar
- How to create a monitoring pathway
- How to give effective, in-the-moment feedback to move learning forward
WHAT YOU WILL DO DURING THE COURSE
- Unpack an upcoming standard
- Create a student exemplar
- Plan a classroom monitoring pathway
- Practice identifying misconceptions
- Design a system for marking student work
- Apply active monitoring to classroom scenarios
- Create an action step to implement immediately
DESIGNED FOR TEACHERS
This course is meant to be completed independently. Short videos are interspersed with work time, allowing teachers to reflect and plan.
- Students don’t improve simply by practicing. They improve through feedback
- Active monitoring ensures students receive feedback while they are learning, not after mistakes become habits
- It allows teachers to catch misconceptions early, adjust instruction in real time, and help more students reach mastery
COURSE OUTCOMES
By the end of this course, you will:
- Understand active monitoring and its impact on learning
- Plan for active monitoring using a standard and exemplar
- Have a clear pathway for monitoring student work
- Be ready to implement active monitoring immediately
WHO THIS COURSE IS FOR
- Classroom teachers (K–12)
- Instructional coaches
- Teacher leaders
- School administrators supporting instructional practice
About the Instructors:
Samantha Cleaver, PhD, has more than two decades of experience working in education. She earned her PhD in special education from the University of NC at Charlotte in 2018. Her expertise in literacy and special education has supported work in public schools and nonprofits in Charlotte, NC. She has also taught and led schools in Mexico, Chicago, and Washington, DC.
Emily Bird is an instructional coach and consultant for Northshore Learning. She has been a teacher, administrator, and instructional coach in public and private schools in Mississippi, Georgia, and Minnesota. She loves nothing more than a cognitively busy, joyful classroom and is honored to partner with students, teachers, and schools in pursuit of those goals! Her expertise is in instructional coaching, adolescent literacy, and impactful structures for fostering adult learning and collaboration in schools.
Active Monitoring in Action: Feedback That Moves Students to Mastery
Active Monitoring is a practical, research-aligned approach to giving students immediate, just-in-time feedback while they are working.
