ABSTRACT
Teachers are able to formatively assess students both through pictorial representation and a brief summary of learning. This is especially helpful and important when introducing this type of formative assessment to the students for the first time. Students can use the front to draw musical symbols, then explain their meanings on the back, or use the postcard more abstractly to draw and describe how playing a piece of music makes them feel. Students can draw various resources and then explain on the back what kind of information they usually contain, or use the postcard to sum up their research on a given subject. Mateo then has students share their Postcard Summary with a shoulder partner for two minutes and gives students another two minutes to refine either their pictures or their sentences. Mateo reviews each student's postcard. In a corner of each postcard, he writes down notes about the major concepts that the student misunderstood.
