Determining a Grade: Selecting Relevant Data
If you are mindfully preparing for determining the grade, then merely riding the wave of learning experiences and collecting numerous artefacts is not enough.
Category: monitoring
Determining a Grade: Organizing, Monitoring and Gathering Evidence
“We’re all in this together.” How many times have we said this in the last year? We realize that to
Are the trees still growing up?
‘The trees are still growing up!’ Decades ago, a colleague, Bob Thomas, exclaimed at one of our meetings, “If you’re
Asking Effective Questions…Effectively
Effective questioning encourages learners to learn with and from each other, supporting a classroom community focused on eliciting and sharing thinking and building thinking skills.
Feedback that’s “Just in Time”
Feedback drives learning. But as we learned in a previous post, not all feedback is productive. In this post, we’ll
Learning Conversations: Tools for Documenting (Part 3)
How do we harness learning conversations in order to create a powerful artifact of thinking? It’s a conundrum!
Learning Conversations: Conditions for Success (Part 2)
The importance of sitting alongside a student is often understated or dismissed.
Learning Conversations: A Window into Thinking (Part 1)
If a picture is worth a thousand words, then what is the value of a conversation? Priceless!
HARNESSING THE POWER OF ASSESSMENT 