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Grundskoletidningen nr 3. Jlsu. James and Susie. The 49 Techniques from Teach Like a Champion. Tools for teaching with F.A. - Hopkinton LibGuides. Web Tools for Formative Assessment - Formative use of summative assessment. 5 Fantastic, Fast, Formative Assessment Tools.

I thought I could read my students' body language.

5 Fantastic, Fast, Formative Assessment Tools

I was wrong. As an experiment, I used Socrative when I taught binary numbers. What I learned forever changed my views on being a better teacher. The Qualitative Formative Assessment Toolkit: Document Learning with Mobile Technology. What is qualitative formative assessment?

The Qualitative Formative Assessment Toolkit: Document Learning with Mobile Technology

Some call it anecdotal or informal assessment. However, such designations imply passivity -- as if certain things were captured accidentally. I believe the word "formative" should always be included with the word assessment because all feedback mechanisms should help shape and improve the person (or situation) being assessed. Wedging the word "qualitative" into my terminology differentiates it from the analytic or survey-based measures that some associate with the term formative assessment. For my purposes, qualitative formative assessment is the ongoing awareness, understanding, and support of learning that is difficult or impossible to quantify. Carly Schuler stated that the learner needs to be mobile, not the technology. 60FormativeAssessment.pdf.

Examples of Formative Assessment. When incorporated into classroom practice, the formative assessment process provides information needed to adjust teaching and learning while they are still happening.

Examples of Formative Assessment

The process serves as practice for the student and a check for understanding during the learning process. The formative assessment process guides teachers in making decisions about future instruction. 10 Assessments You Can Perform In 90 Seconds. Good assessment is frequent assessment.

10 Assessments You Can Perform In 90 Seconds

Any assessment is designed to provide a snapshot of student understand—the more snapshots, the more complete the full picture of knowledge. On its best day, an assessment will be 100% effective, telling you exactly what a student understands. More commonly, the return will be significantly lower as the wording of questions, the student’s sense of self-efficacy, or other factors diminish their assessment performance. It sounds obvious, but a student is a human being with an entire universe of personal problems, distraction, and related challenges in recalling the information in the form the assessment demands.

This makes a strong argument for frequent assessment, as it can be too easy to over-react and “remediate” students who may be banging against the limits of the assessment’s design rather than their own understanding. Simple Assessments The word “simple” here is misleading. 1. t11_providingh3. TRAILS: Tool for Real-time Assessment of Information Literacy Skills. TRAILS-9 not active, content moved As of July 1, 2019, TRAILS-9 is no longer an active site.

TRAILS: Tool for Real-time Assessment of Information Literacy Skills

All TRAILS content is now available as an open educational resource (OER) at the new site at TRAILS-Archive.org. Resources available at TRAILS-Archive.org include: + TRAILS assessments as downloadable PDFs. FormativeAssessmentTools. 27 Ways To Assess Background Knowledge. 27 Ways To Assess Background Knowledge Assessing background knowledge is an often misunderstood idea, and subsequently fumbled as a process.

27 Ways To Assess Background Knowledge

Background knowledge is a product of the experiences–academic and otherwise–that a student brings to a lesson. These provide both knowledge in terms of content, as well as schema in terms of analogs students can use to make sense of new ideas. Ten Reflective Questions to Ask at the End of Class. Share with Friends 5.8KShares How deep is your commitment to reflective practice?

Ten Reflective Questions to Ask at the End of Class

Do you maintain a reflective journal? Do you blog? Do you capture and archive your reflections in a different space? Do you consistently reserve a bit of time for your own reflective work? I began creating dedicated time and space for reflection toward the end of my classroom teaching career, and the practice has followed me through my work at the WNY Young Writer’s Studio. Observations about reflection Reflection makes all of us self-aware. I find that often, we struggle to find time to support reflective practice. Ten Reflective Questions to Ask at the End of Class. Dylan Wiliam & the 5 Formative Assessment Strategies to Improve Student Learning. Dylan Wiliam’s new book, Embedded Formative Assessment, is filled with a number of insights culled from his 35 years of experience in education.

Dylan Wiliam & the 5 Formative Assessment Strategies to Improve Student Learning

The foundation of the book highlights the importance of formative assessment as a tool to improve teacher practice and ultimately improve student learning. In the book, he provides the 5 strategies that he has come to believe are core to successful formative assessment practice in the classroom: Jlsu. Som en uppföljning till mitt förra blogginlägg om dynamiskt och statiskt tankesätt kommer här den s k isbergsillusionen.

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Isbergsillusionen visar exempel på vad som krävs för att bli framgångsrik, men som oftast inte syns på ytan. När man ser någon som är riktigt duktig (t ex en idrottsutövare, en musiker, en jonglerare etc) ser det väldigt enkelt ut. Google Docs och formativ bedömning DEL 1. Klassrumsstrategier 2. Klassrumsstrategier 1. Bedöma skriftlig förmåga. Öppna frågor. Frågebatteri - Google Docs.

Alla förmågorna Big 5.docx. Språkutvecklande arbetssätt. Ämnesspråk är nyckeln till att utveckla kunskaper i alla skolans ämnen och därför en viktig fråga för alla lärare.

Språkutvecklande arbetssätt

Ämnesspråk handlar till exempel om att uttrycka, tolka, förstå och använda begrepp, fakta och centrala tankegångar i tal och skrift, men även de känslor och åsikter som ämnet väcker. Bedömning för lärande. Arbetsgång för formativt läsförståelsearbete i klassrummet. Hur kan jag arbeta med en faktatext i klassrummet så att mina elever verkligen förstår den?