The Power of the Formative Assessment The power of formative assessment is one of the things I most like about the process of the IBPYP Exhibition. The IBPYP Exhibition is a student-driven, culminating experience in the PYP. During the Exhibition, the teacher openly drops into a real facilitator role (even though they do this all the time). Formative assessment, or the assessment that drives our teaching, is so critical during Exhibition. How, as a teacher during the Exhibition, do I gather all of this juicy information about the students? I watch: Over the last few weeks, I have taken a lot of mental notes and have written a lot of notes about how effectively the students organize themselves. I listen: What kinds of questions are they asking me or others? I record: I take a lot of pictures. IBPYP Exhibition Voices from YIS Academics on Vimeo . The Exhibition has helped remind me how we don’t need standardized tests to tell us how our students are doing. Formative assessment drives us. Like this: Like Loading...
Arbetsgång för formativt läsförståelsearbete i klassrummet Hur kan jag arbeta med en faktatext i klassrummet så att mina elever verkligen förstår den? Nedan följer ett förslag på hur jag tänker arbeta med faktatexter under kommande läsår. Detta förslag på arbetsgång är ett resultat av min läsning av Barbro Westlunds Att bedöma elevers läsförståelse (2013) och Catharina Tjernbergs Framgångsrik läs- och skrivundervisning (2013) samt ett resultat av min sommarläsning av litteratur som behandlar formativ bedömning. Att tänka på när du genomför läsförståelseundervisning i ditt klassrum: Tänk hela tiden högt med eleverna så att du synliggör sina mentala processer för dem. Samtalsmönstret i ditt klassrum ska präglas av dialog. Genomför arbetsgången nedan i halvklass första gången (om möjligt, dvs). Nedan följer 11 punkter: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. Kommentarer till punkterna: Punkt 1 och 2 handlar om att hitta elevernas vardagsföreställningar och vardagsbegrepp för fenomenet/processen som texten berör. Fr. Punkt 11 Varför sluta här? /Hanna
Five Free Web 2.0 Tools to Support Lesson Planning "Teachers need to integrate technology seamlessly into the curriculum instead of viewing it as an add-on, an afterthought or an event." -- Heidi Hayes Jacobs, Educational Consultant, Curriculum Designers, Inc. Web 2.0 tools are online software programs that allow users to do a number of different things. They can be used to teach curriculum content, store data, create or edit video, edit photos, collaborate and so much more. These programs are often free and are used by teachers, students and sometimes parents, both in and out of the classroom, on a pretty regular basis. The question then becomes: are educators prepared to use these tools? Embracing the use of Web 2.0 tools in lesson planning may still be new to many educators. As we talk about Web 2.0 tools, here's one point I want to stress. With so many free tools available on the web today, how do we decide which will be the best fit for our use? 1. If you've not heard of Pinterest, what rock have you been hiding under? 2. 3. 4. 5.
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The Best Resources For Learning About Formative Assessment (Thumbs are one of my favorite forms of formative assessment) Be sure to read my Ed Week column, Ways to Include Students in the Formative Assessment Process. As the new school year approaches (we go back in two more weeks), I’ve been thinking a bit on how I can be a little more intentional and strategic in using formative assessment. For those who might be new to the term, formative assessments are ongoing practices that help both the teacher and student evaluate and reflect on how they are both doing, and what changes either or both might need to make to become a more effective teacher and learner (I’d love it if someone left a comment with a better definition). Again, for people who are new to these terms, formative assessments are often contrasted with summative assessments. Formative assessments are generally considered more useful to teachers, which is why I’m thinking about them. Here are my choices for The Best Resources For Learning About Formative Assessment: Do you understand?
The Most Important Question Every Assessment Should Answer The Question Every Assessment Should Be Able To Answer by Terry Heick The difference between assessment of learning and assessment for learning is a crucial one, in many ways indicative of an important shift in education. Traditionally, tests have told teachers and parents how a student “does,” then offers a very accessible point of data (usually percentage correct and subsequent letter grade) that is reported to parents as a performance indicator. Class data can be gathered to imply instructional effectiveness, and the data from multiple classrooms can be combined to suggest the performance of an entire school, but a core message here is one of measurement and finality: this is how you did. And it’s all past tense. 5 Strategies For Assessment For Learning First, a word about assessment startegies. comenuusaassessment.com created the above graphic that shares 5 strategies for assessment for learning: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. What Every Assessment For Learning Should Tell You Still, it happens.
Lesson Plan: Introducing Admin to 21st C Skills using Google Docs It is not uncommon for me to read comments on Twitter that characterize school administrators as a group who need to get more in touch with 21st century learning. Whether it is a comment about how senior administration is blocking specific online sites or resources, how school leaders need to provide leadership and role model the use of technology, or how school based administrators are out of touch with social media and its uses in education, there certainly is a tone indicating that administrators needing to 'get on board'. Although I have blogged in the past that I don't find comments that single out one group to be particularly useful ("No Us vs. Them--Just Us"), I agree that there needs to be more of us in administration that are in tune with 21st century skills. In our school district, we are continuing to learn more about 21st century, personalized learning. The lesson: 2) went through the Learning Intentions, 6) and, examined the document that we collectively produced.
10 Of The Best Educational Online Games Danger Zone Students are faced with serious global issues to tackle in this fantastic character-based game. They have to use different skills to solve a challenge like combating a deadly airborne illness using test-samples, note-taking and learning along the way! The Blood Typing Game This brilliant, prize-winning game from the Nobel Prize website lets students get up-close and personal with medical and biological processes, learning about patients, treatment and blood-types. Kodu A fantastic innovation from Microsoft, Kodu introduces students to a new visual programming language made specifically for creating games. Climate Challenge A great game from the BBC, this puts students into the shoes of the president of the ‘European Nations’, tackling climate change through a challenging combination of policy choices and diplomatic persuasion! SimCEO This virtual online game sees students create and manage their own company, giving them a great foundation in economic principles. Play My Code
Use Seesaw To Create A Learning Journal In Your Classroom How I Use Seesaw To Create A Learning Journal in My Classroom by Kelli Ohms, Special Education Functional Life Skills Teacher Being a functional life skills teacher, my class is not set up like a typical classroom. We started using Seesaw last November as a way to document and share the work my students were doing in the community and record evidence of the key academic skills they’re working towards. At first, my biggest challenge was teaching my students to add items independently, but now they enjoy adding new items to their journals, and even request to post unprompted! The biggest way Seesaw has helped my classroom is with parent communication. Now that I use Seesaw, Parents have loved getting real-time updates on what their students are working on in class and how they are making progress. For instance, I had a parent who did not think their child could count money. Increasing My Students’ Motivation Simplifying Documentation and Data Collection I would suggest Seesaw to everyone!
Här kommer turen till alla Tommy Lucassi är lärare i matematik, NO och teknik på Rålambshovsskolan i Stockholm. I hans klassrum ska alla elever få tillgång till det bästa lärandet. I stället för handuppräckning drar han därför på måfå en namnlapp, samtidigt som han ställer sina frågor. Det finns gott om forskning som visar hur effektiva klassrumsdiskussioner är för inlärningen – för dem som deltar. – Svarar en elev att den inte vet så drar jag nya lappar och låter andra svara. Hans undervisning fick delvis en ny inriktning när han började arbeta med formativ bedömning och evidensbaserad inlärning. – Forskningen har visat att det är det som sker i klassrummet som har störst effekt på elevers inlärning. För Tommy Lucassi startar denna dag med tre lektioner på rad om matspjälkningen, om hur näringsämnen tas upp under köttbullens väg genom kroppen. – Ni som inte redovisar, glöm inte att anteckna! Föregående lektion har eleverna gjort research. – Får jag använda mobilen? En tjej frågar om hon får göra ett prov.