At my school, we believe that self-reflection is imperative for engagement and engagement is the pathway to academic success.
Gabe Nemiroff | Albuquerque Talent Development Academy
USE CASE
To reflect after each class activity, ELL support
Gabe Nemiroff
Social Studies Teacher
School/District
Albuquerque Talent Development Academy
Grade Level 10 + 11
Gabe Nemiroff, a high school Social Studies teacher, is part of a charter school in New Mexico determined to center reflection within their curriculum. His students were already acclimated to reflection as a monthly requirement, even before being introduced to Swivl. For Gabe and his administrators, “MirrorTalk was an obvious new tool on the market to promote that exact thing, to help us grow something that we already do, but have been doing primitively for a long time.”
His goal is to use MirrorTalk to streamline existing processes, while creating an environment where students reflect more frequently, and with more candor.
How Gabe and his students use MirrorTalk
As an educator and advisor, Gabe is responsible for reviewing monthly reflections from 20 students. Initially, it seemed that introducing MirrorTalk would be a learning curve. “I was expecting a little hesitation at first but was surprised how little there was. I think the screen-based verbal engagement hits them in a more comfortable place. The result has been that they are able to be more candid.”
Student reflections have become an unfiltered experience. Gabe can now interact with student reflections in a “raw,” multi-faceted way, through student tone of voice and body language, and with the support of the AI-powered assessment MirrorTalk creates for each reflection.
An unexpected solution
Gabe is also experimenting with using MirrorTalk for building verbal speaking confidence of ELLs, by customizing prompts to prepare them for the WIDA test, New Mexico’s assessment of academic English language proficiency. “At our school, our students are always nervous about taking the WIDA test. They always tank the speaking portion, and before MirrorTalk we didn’t have an efficient way to support them in building their speaking confidence.”
“I think it helped with their comfort levels, working with an interface. And I’m excited to see the results.”
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