Schoolbased Curriculum Development Primary Section

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School-based Curriculum Development (Primary)
Section Journey on Learning in Action Changing
Practice, Changing Minds 8th March, 2008
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Lok Wah Catholic Primary School
Write Right Rubrics as criterion-referenced
learning tools
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Background
Our School
Our students
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Teachers concerns
Our TSA results were not satisfactory. What are
we going to do?
How can we help our students to improve?
In 2005
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Where shall we start?
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SBCD programme in 2005
Awareness of reading skills and BC
descriptors ? Text analysis to help
students deconstruct the reading texts ? Matching
assessment to learning and teaching ? Reflections
on teaching and learning in response to the
assessment data
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P.6 Student Performances in TSA 2006 Weaknesses
in Reading

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P.6 Student Performances in TSA 2006 Weaknesses
in Writing

• Content
• insufficient elaboration on relevant ideas
• ideas are not clearly/coherently organised

• Language
• limited range of vocabulary, sentence
• patterns, and cohesive devices
• weak in grammar and spelling

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Student performances in writing
Read Davids e-mail and help Ben write a reply to
David.
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insufficient elaboration on relevant ideas ?
Dear David, Im happy to hear that you will visit
Hong Kong. I can suggest an interesting day trip
for you. First we will go to Repulse Bay. We
will swim there. Next we will go to Cheung Chau.
We will go windsurfing there. Then we will go
to Wong Tai Sin. We will visit the temples
there. After that we will go to Ocean Park. We
will see the sea animals there. Finally, we will
go to Tsim Sha Tsui. We will watch some
performances there. Do you like the trip? Best
wishes, Ben
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You are Ben. Write a letter to Aunt Maggie to
tell her what you had eaten.

• Guided questions
• What did you eat?
• What was the taste?
• What colour was it?
• Where did it come from?
• Did you like it?

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Write a letter to Aunt Maggie.
insufficient elaboration on relevant ideas ?
Dear Aunt Maggie How are you? Last
week, I went camping with my pen friend, Matthew
and Susan. We ate a lot of delicious food in the
camp. First, we tried hamburgers. They were
salty. They were brown and yellow. They came
from America. We liked hamburgers very much.
Next, we tried pizza. It was spicy. It was
yellow, red, green and white. It came from
Italy. We liked pizza very much. Then, we tried
spaghetti. It was sour. It was red. It came
from Italy. We liked spaghetti very much.
See you soon. Love Ben

• Guided questions
• What food did you eat?
• What was the taste of the food?
• What colour was the food?
• Where did it come from?
• Did you like it?

limited range of sentence patterns ?
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You watched a play with your classmates. Write a
diary about it.
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8th January, 2008 Tuesday We went to
the Hong Kong City Hall Today, I went to
the Hong Kong City Hall to watch a play with my
classmates. I went to Hong Kong City Hall
with my classmates. But when we were at the
entrance, I forgot to bring my ticket. So I
called my mum to take my ticket to me. But Mum
did not find my ticket at home, so I went to the
entrance and bought another ticket. Please give
me a ticket, please, I said. Then, we went to
the Hong Kong City Hall. The play was about a
good teacher. At last, the ending was very
surprising. We went home happily.
ideas are not clearly/coherently organised
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Teachers reflections
How can we help our students to improve?
Did we provide enough reading input to our
students?
Did we highlight the features in different text
types?
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SBCD programme in 2006
Text analysis Locate information and ideas ? From
reading to writing Introducing features in
different text types ? Make use of organizers in
the writing process
? Setting assessment criteria in writing
How do we assess our students work?
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Setting assessment criteria in writing
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Can it be used practically as a marking tool?
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Can it be used practically as a marking tool?
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Suggested performance indicators for assessing
the composing skills for narrative writing
(Content)
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Teachers reflections
Using rubrics as marking tools?
Effectiveness? Worthiness?