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)!