OTJ's and assessment

http://literacy-natstds-support.wikispaces.com/Assessment+Resources
This is a great link I found from twitter (tweeted from Ulearn12) talking about using OTJ's and how to support the OTJ's we make. It's a wiki made by Jill Hammonds from Core Education.

I especially like the student voice part of this. The template that you can donload has questions to ask students to see where they are at. How often do we write down student voice to use for future reports? Do we need to do this more often- notes, videos, student reflections - actually their blogs, learning logs and workbooks have loads of student voice in the way of goal setting and reflection. Is this enough?

Quote from the website; "ALL OTJs need to be made using more than just the writing tools above(see website). They need to be triangulated with regular teacher observations and collection of student learning conversations."

This is timly as we are about to undertake formal summative assessment with our learners. I do believe it is important to use all points of the triangular model - assessment data - OTJ's - teaching observations - to be able to accurately pinpoint where chn are sitting against the national standards and when we report to parents.

Roll on term 4; assessment, reports and quality teaching and learning programmes (with end of year fun and reflections of course)!

Blooms and ICT

I found this great website on twitter http://www.schrockguide.net/bloomin-apps.html which links Blooms and ICT. Web2tools and apps are grouped under which Blooms skill they teach children.

In class I have started a wall display using a peacock design I found online (I'll link to it later). This is exactly what I wanted to explore and then implement in my class - the link to the higher order thinking skills and ICT. To integrate them both and not teach them in isolation.

Enhancing Learning with Assessment

James Rasmussen discusses assessment for learning at Newlands College. James challenges educators to look at what assessment is being done in schools, and if this is really getting to the heart of the focusing inquiry of the teaching as inquiry cycle and changing teaching practice to meet the needs of students.

My thoughts... soon to be updated. ;)

Cyber Safety

After our staff meeting on how and what we should be teaching in relation to Cyber safety I found these great links below. I love how the gird is set out for each year group with relevant lesson plans and activities. 

I am starting Term 4 with this! 

I might start with getting my class thinking of how they have been cyber-safe this year already and then go from there. 

 http://www.thegrid.org.nz/ to find lesson plans and more for each year group.

Also here http://hectorsworld.netsafe.org.nz/teachers/lesson-plans-and-resources/lesson-plans/