EMPOWERING LEARNERS
To harness the power of assessment to improve learning, you must examine and possibly reconsider your role and how you see your relationship with your students.
In your classroom, do students know what they are trying to achieve, both in terms of the big picture and the details?
It’s late August and a charged silence of anticipation hangs in classrooms across Ontario – but not for long! As students flick the switch and energy floods into the learning spaces, how will students, from the very young to those approaching adulthood, perceive their place within this learning environment?
Has this scenario ever happened to you? “I know this student understands the concepts. We talked about it; the student showed me how the model works but on the test this student did poorly! Why is that? That doesn’t make sense! What do I do now?”
