Best Practices for Teachers
The key tenets of Pear Practice are engagement, collaboration, feedback-feedorward, reinforcement, and differentiation, which inspire our article on best practices.
Pear Practice is designed for teachers to create a collaborative and engaging classroom environment. Its tenets include:
- Engage
- Collaborate
- Feedback-Feedforward
- Reinforce
- Differentiate
Engage
Pear Practice’s use of research-backed gamification techniques and accessibility features allows every student to immerse themselves in their learning experience and stay engaged. The inclusion of gamified elements in digital educational platforms increases engagement in the learning experience and subsequent test performance.
Within Pear Practice’s inclusive gaming experience, you can:
- Add variety to your questions, such as drawing or classification
- Customize learning with Pear Practice’s accessibility features, such as a screen reader, read-aloud text, or mobile compatibility
- Inspire students to earn points together and care packages for their avatars
- Encourage students to earn XP and progress on their town map by completing assignments and Remix Sessions independently
Note: You can check a student’s progress in multiple ways, including looking at Pear Practice from their perspective by clicking on Open as Student from your avatar.
Collaborate
Pear Practice’s collaborative learning features aim for more powerful group learning moments and foster a sense of community within the classroom. Group communication and encouragement between student group members are highly impactful for not only group academic success but also support individual students’ persistence and sense of belonging within a group.
Within Pear Practice, you can foster a collaborative environment with the following:
- Incorporate student names, relevant topics, images, and holidays in your classroom content
- Build warmth and community with Pear Practice Stickers and Reactions
- Promote knowledge sharing and collaboration through learning problems using Pear Practice Stickers
Feedback-Feedforward
Pear Practice’s feedback tool makes it easy to deliver timely feedback to students during a practice session. Research shows that placing feedback in the context of broader learning goals and calling attention to the work students have put forth can fuel greater learning outcomes and support a growth mindset.
With the feedback tool, you can:
- Provide positive reinforcement with clear, concise, and correct feedback as well as growth-mindset verbiage
- Provide tips and compliments with customized feedback
- Tie feedback back into learning objectives and goals by tailoring Practice Sets
Reinforce
Pear Practice aims to serve teachers as a tool for effective and engaging retrieval practice for experiences. Studies show that engaging students in regular sessions of retrieval practice and interleaving a variety of topics or forms of knowledge application into practice can help to improve knowledge retention and positive student learning outcomes.
With Pear Practice’s customizable Practice Sets and question types, you can:
- Revisit and reinforce prior learning with bite-sized practice sessions
- Use custom Practice Sets to block the practice of a specific skill or interleave related skills to maximize learning
- Mix in varied Item types within the same Practice Sets to encourage different levels of Higher Order Thinking
Differentiate
Pear Practice’s in-depth progress monitoring tools provide educators with granular performance on Items within a given standard or Practice Set at both the classroom and student levels. Progress monitoring results in higher academic achievement for students, more effective and proactive academic interventions, improved assessment and adjustment of instructional techniques, and improved individualized instruction for students.
With Pear Practice’s progress monitoring tools, you can:
- Understand what topics a class is excelling in and what areas you can revisit together
- Individualize practice exercises to meet students where they are at
- Identify if a student may need additional practice or academic support
Last modified on July 16, 2026
