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Scenario You are all staff in a staff meeting.
Your Presenters are reporting back to the meeting
after an in-service they attended on
Understanding the Developing Learner Through
Assessment.
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Outcomes for Staff Meeting

• To help staff develop an understanding of the
  necessity for conducting regular student
  assessments, in order to implement successful
  learning and teaching outcomes.
• Staff will have an understanding of the various
  tools which can be used for assessment.
• Staff will understand the importance of
  accountability and the importance for
  consistently recording observed strengths and
  weaknesses.
• Staff will engage in purposeful activities,
  which highlight the tools which can be used for
  assessment.

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Tongue Twister

• Yellow butter, purple jelly, red jam, black
  bread.Spread it thick, say it quick!Yellow
  butter, purple jelly, red jam, black
  bread.Spread it thicker, say it quicker!Yellow
  butter, purple jelly, red jam, black bread.Don't
  eat with your mouth full!
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What is Assessment?

• Assessment is the process of identifying,
  gathering and interpreting information about
  students learning.
• The central purpose of learning is to provide
  information on student achievement and progress
  and set the direction for ongoing teaching and
  learning (adapted from Jan Connelly's lecture on
  Assessment).

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Assessment Cycle

• Collect evidence about development of students
  using a variety of strategies.
• Plan learning experiences by looking for
  evidence over time of student development and
  design specific opportunities for students to
  demonstrate achievement of explicit outcomes/
  indictors.
• Use teaching and learning experiences that
  develop the skills and knowledge that help
  achieve the appropriate stage outcomes .
• Monitor and record students learning via
  formative assessment- observation, interaction,
  monitoring and self/ peer assessment OR summative
  assessment
• Make judgements about evidence gathered to
  identify what students can do and what they have
  yet to learn how to do in respect to the learning
  outcomes of the appropriate Stage they are
  working at.
• Reporting - Informing stake-holders of students
  progress. Keeping in mind appropriate format for
  accountability.
• Evaluate and review to facilitate students
  progress. Re-plan teaching and learning
  activities to support the learning needs of the
  whole class and of individual students or groups
  of students.

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Observation

• Observations can range from the most incidental,
  informal general impressions of student's
  behaviours to the most formal organised forms of
  recording information.
• Observations can be mentally noted for future
  reference, or recorded which can then be placed
  in students portfolios. This documentation will
  back up any assessment assumptions made on
  students learning abilities.

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Interaction

• Confirms initial judgements based on
  observations.
• Can be formal or informal within a teaching
  program.
• Running Records Records a child's reading
  behaviour.
• Miscue analysis Acknowledges that reading is a
  meaning seeking process, which readers use
  Syntactic, Semantic and Graphological cues to
  make sense of texts.
• Retelling Which can be used for reading,
  writing, talking and listening.
• Interview Can be formal or informal. Questions
  are asked to reveal strengths and weaknesses.

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Monitoring Recording

• An assessment tool that is used to keep a record
  of student progress.
• Students progress is recorded and revisited
  throughout the topic/year.
• This method is a combination of the observation
  and interaction methods as they are both used
  during the monitoring process.

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Interactive Activities
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Conclusion

• Difference between formal/informal assessment
• Self assessment
• Why we assess
• To give feedback to students
• To improve learning and teaching practices
• To work towards outcomes
• Stipulated by the Department of Education

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Accountability

• As teachers we are often held accountable for our
  students learning development, so it is important
  to use the assessment tools to provide stake
  holders (Government, School, students,
  Caregivers) with accurate DOCUMENTATION of
  information about our students.

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Tongue Twister

• If you understand, say ""understand"".If you
  don't understand, say ""don't understand"".But
  if you understand and say ""don't
  understand"".How do I understand that you
  understand. Understand!?

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Thank you for your participation throughout the
staff meeting.Please help yourself to a small
snack provided by your presenters.