Asking Effective Questions…Effectively: Part 2
Asking questions is a fundamental way educators elicit information from learners about their learning…or is it? The nature of the
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Witnessing Learning Over Time: Tools for Documenting Observations (Part 3)
Student thinking rarely follows a straight path towards a learning destination. When you ponder documenting the twists and turns of whole group or individual students’ thinking, do you feel overwhelmed? How might the application of learning goals and success criteria support the process of documentation?
Witnessing Learning Over Time: Documenting Observations with a Checklist (Part 2)
The process of assessment is not black and white. It’s not about shades of grey, but rather, about an understanding that each student has a spectrum of possibilities within them – a rainbow of ideas and potential.
Reflecting Back, Moving Forward: Feeling Stuck?
Do you sometimes feel like you’re stuck? You may feel like your wheels are spinning? I spoke with a principal last week and that’s how she was feeling.
Witnessing Learning over Time: Monitoring and Documenting (Part 1)
Take a moment to breathe, slow down and reflect on the first part of this academic year.
Reflecting Back, Moving Forward: Witnessing Learning Over Time
I learned about differentiation and personalization in a truly authentic way.
Collaboratively Developing Students’ Understanding of Success Criteria: A Dynamic, Ongoing Process (Part 4)
As a learning community, students uncover possible success criteria, giving an educator the opportunity to listen deeply, assessing what students already know and understand.
Collaboratively Developing Students’ Understanding of Success Criteria: Using Samples to Uncover Criteria (Part 3)
When you give students information that they can use to improve, and they see and understand that they can do it… students will experience feelings of control over their learning …
Collaboratively Developing Students’ Understanding of Success Criteria: Modelling Criteria (Part 2)
“…the more students interact with the criteria, the more they are able to internalize look-fors and apply them when assessing the quality of their work or performance.” (Nicol, Macfarlane-Dick, 2006)
Collaboratively Developing Students’ Understanding of Success Criteria: Introduction (Part 1)
When you read the title of this post, did it affirm your thinking or did it evoke a sense of questioning…’But how do I do that?’
HARNESSING THE POWER OF ASSESSMENT 