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Socrative – Find out what your students know
This tool is excellent and I will be using it in the next week or two with my stage 1 PE students. This Web tool/app allows for exactly the same type of feedback that the Activote devices provide...
View ArticleEasy Portfolio App
Something that that I am trying to improve in my teaching (slowly) is the recording and use of more formative assessment. I need to understand more accurately where my students are at with their...
View ArticleDylan Wiliam Formative Assessment
As the end of term 1 approaches I thought was timely to remind staff of our commitment as a school to formative assessment and in particular the work of Dylan Wiliam. My initial proposal that all...
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Teacher Personal Action Plans: Formative Assessment
After seeing Dylan Wiliam in term 1 and making a commitment to develop formative assessment as a site it is great that we can now share our formative assessment goals (via Personal Action Plans) on the...
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Formative Assessment
In our staff meeting this week (week 1 term 3) we will be revisiting our formative assessment action plans from early term 2. What formative assessment strategies did we say we were trying to...
View ArticleFormative Assessment Reflection
I hope that staff were able to get something out of this weeks staff meeting, being able to reflect where they are at with developing formative assessment techniques with students. It is important to...
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Promethean IWB Activote and Socrative – Student Response Systems
Promethean IWB ActiVote Collecting feedback from students regularly (daily) and in a way that allows a teacher to see areas of weakness across a class or with individual students is important if we are...
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Classroom Observations
I thought it might be useful to revisit the PBAS Observation process and then share my experience with it this term. Before discussing the process it is important for new staff or staff who have not...
View ArticleThe positive impact of self assessment
Dylan Wiliam presents 5 Key Strategies for Assessment for Learning. Activating students as owners of their own learning is one of these. How often do we get our students to reflect on their learning...
View ArticleWhy is it important to share and clarify learning intentions and success...
Dylan Wiliam presents 5 Key Strategies for Assessment for Learning. Clarifying, sharing, and understanding learning intentions and criteria for success is one of these. The following information is...
View ArticleMoving learning forward with feedback
Dylan Wiliam presents 5 Key Strategies for Assessment for Learning. Providing feedback that moves learners forward is one of these. The following information is from an article titled Good Feedback. So...
View ArticleWhy activate students as learning resources for one and other?
Dylan Wiliam presents 5 Key Strategies for Assessment for Learning. Activating students as instructional resources for one another is one of these. The following information is from the following...
View ArticleWhat can you do in the classroom to assess were your students are at?
Dylan Wiliam presents 5 Key Strategies for Assessment for Learning. Engineering effective classroom discussions, questions, and learning tasks that elicit evidence of learning is one of these. What...
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Teacher Sharing – Formative Assessment
After attending Dylan Wiliam’s conference at the beginning of 2014 teaching staff decided that formative assessment would be a focus area for improving teaching practice at Port Broughton Area School....
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Technology, PE and Assessment for Learning
Dylan Wiliam presents 5 Key Strategies as part of Assessment for Learning. Clarifying, sharing and understanding learning intentions & success criteria. Eliciting evidence of learners’...
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Continuing to develop formative assessment
Thank you to everyone who engaged in the formative assessment activities over the past few weeks. Hopefully being able to read and then discuss peoples ideas, trials, successes and failures over the...
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Formative Assessment using BaM Video Delay app in PE
BaM Video Delay is an app that records video and then delays that video for a specified time allowing the athlete to look up after their performance and watch themselves performing a skill or movement...
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Planning for assessment of and for student learning
How we design our assessment tasks determines the quality of information we get back from our students. In turn, this impacts on how well we can then move our students forward and assess and report on...
View ArticleProfessional reading from Facebook and Twitter Part 13
Reading number 1 Source: You Tube You Tube Video: How you can be good at math, and other surprising facts about learning | Jo Boaler Posted on Twitter by @TurraNick Reading number 2 Blog: Teacher...
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