Formative Assessment Is Transformational! I think formative assessment is one of the single most important things that teachers can do -- and already do -- for their students.
In fact, great teachers use formative assessment whether or not they know it. Formative assessment may not be new, but it certainly has begun to crystallize into particular elements and components that are currently in the spotlight. When teachers practice great formative assessment, it can be a transformational experience for them as practitioners and, more importantly, for their students. Grading Transformation When teachers check for understanding, they are doing so as a means to ensure that students are successful in the summative assessment.
Teaching Transformation Teachers work smarter, not harder, when they use formative assessments. Here, formative assessments must be used in making decisions to "feed forward," or make the right decision in terms of instructional next steps. Student Learning Transformation. IRA Books : Children's Literature in the Reading Program: Engaging Young Readers in the 21st Century. Deborah A.
Wooten & Bernice E. Cullinan, Editors. The Quiet Book: An Illustrated Love Letter to Life’s Meaningful Pauses. By Maria Popova A sweet celebration of the nuanced stillnesses that comprise aliveness.
“There is the dumb silence of slumber or apathy… the fertile silence of awareness, pasturing the soul… the silence of peaceful accord with other persons or communion with the cosmos,” wrote Paul Goodman in his sublime taxonomy of the nine kinds of silence. If silence’s sister faculty — solitude — is partway between apathetic extinction and deliberate eradication because we’re failing to cultivate childhood’s essential capacity for “fertile solitude,” then it follows that the survival of silence depends in large part on cultivating a healthy relationship with it, as well as a deep appreciation of its many gifts, in childhood. What emerges is at once a Goodnight Moon for a new generation and a modern celebration of adulthood’s increasingly endangered art of seeking out those pockets of stillness where, as Wendell Berry memorably put it, “one’s inner voices become audible.”
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Pypchat - home. Educational Resources for International Schools. Welcome to Scholastic's International Schools site.
Created for International educators and all members of the International Schools Community, this is the place to access Scholastic educational resources and curriculum materials specifically correlated and aligned to IPC and IB curriculum frameworks. Correlations - We've Done the Work for You! Hundreds of fiction and non-fiction titles, pre-packed classroom libraries, the latest education technology, and teaching resources all correlated to the PYP, MYP, and IPC Programs.
SGIS – Swiss Group of International Schools – Lucerne Fri, March 9 – Sat, March 10 Kingston Book Festival – Jamiaca Sun, March 11 – Sun, March 18 Leipsiz Book Fair – Germany Thu, March 15 – Sun, March 18 ECIS Early Childhood Conference - Athens Fri, March 16 – Sun, March 18. European word translator: an interactive map. Enter one or two lower-case English words to see translations from Google Translate.
This site is an old side-project that I'm planning to shut down around the end of 2017. It's been a fun project and I'm grateful for the encouraging and helpful feedback I've received. Drop me an email at james dot trimble at yahoo dot co dot uk if you really need the site to continue working after the end of 2017. J Examples: banana the cat she runs. Pypchat - home.
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The Primary Years Programme (PYP) provides an educational framework based upon what is currently known about how young children learn. It draws on the best practices in elementary school instruction. K-PYP-CURRICULUM_mob. What? Ditch the Central Idea?! Conference with Lynn Erickson. I attended a conference last week at the International School of Geneva.
I went with my two Twitter-buddies @megangraff and @jennysfen whom I first met online in the Educational Twitterverse. (This proves that not everyone you meet online is weird and dangerous. They’re only weird. PYP: Lesson/Unit Ideas on Pinterest. Pypchat - home. Pyp_faq. PYP threads. AIS PYP Resources - AIS PYP Resources. PYP Introduction. Pypchat - home. Spirit PYP News. Grade 2 Organise Event The air was filled with excitement recently as Grade 2 hosted their very own recycling event.
They worked together to put up displays and organise their own booths to entertain visitors. Some chose to put together puppet shows or a video to show whilst others worked out a quiz of game for their visitors to complete. They had been looking at the Unit of Inquiry: How we Organise Ourselves the central idea that 'planning an event requires organisation and collaboration. PYP SPRINGBOARD: RESOURCES SUPPLY AND DEMAND INQUIRY BOX - IB Source Blog. Download Sample Chapter PYP Springboard Inquiry Boxes can be used flexibly by teachers and students of the International Baccalaureate® Primary Years Programme, supporting a school’s inquiry programme and the teaching of the units of inquiry. The Resources, Supply and Demand Inquiry Box is for ages 9-12.
It contains a collection of mixed-ability fiction and non-fiction books to enable students to practice research skills and explore their own lines of inquiry within the unit. The teacher’s manual gives guidance and support offering: Links to the appropriate transdisciplinary themes and skills, key concepts and PYP attitudes; Suggestions for central ideas; Questions to ask the students to provoke meaningful discussion and inquiry; Ideas for learning engagements; Flexible assessment sheets and research organizers; Formative and summative assessment ideas; Links to the learner profile; Links to other disciplinary concepts.
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