Archive of ‘Professional Development’ category
Dylan Wiliam interview
Most cost effective things to improve – D Wiliam
Developing Assessment Capable Visible Learners – Frey and Fisher April 2018
Wow! Check out the assessment capable 5 year old learner describing what quality writing looks like (just before th 40:00 minute mark on the video above)
Dylan Wiliam Formative assessment
Useful resource to analyse NAPLAN Numeracy
Assessment for Learning in STEM – Q and A
Differentiation for Learning in STEM Teaching
Differentiation can be in terms of:
Task: How we allow appropriate access to the learning for the students.
Outcome: How students communicate their learning.
Intervention: The roles undertaken by the teacher and others doing the learning.
Route: Allowing students different journeys through the learning.
In a study by Steven Boyle and others, the following were identified as potential ‘good learning behaviours’ of students:
- Tells teacher when they don’t understand
- Asks teacher why they went wrong
- Tells teacher what they don’t understand
- Checks work against instruction, correcting errors and omissions
- When stuck, refers to earlier work before asking teacher
- Checks personal comprehension of instruction and material. Requests further information if needed
- Seeks reasons for aspects of the work at hand
- Anticipates and predicts possible outcomes
- Plans a general strategy before starting
- Explains purposes and results
- Checks teacher’s work for errors; offers corrections
- Seeks links between adjacent activities and ideas
- Seeks links between non-adjacent activities, ideas and between different topics
- Independently seeks further information, following up ideas raised in class
- Seeks links between different subjects
- Asks inquisitive but general questions
- Offers personal examples which are generally relevant
- Seeks specific links between schoolwork and personal life
- Searches for weaknesses in their own understanding; checks the consistency of their explanations across different situations
- Suggests new activities and alternative procedures
- Expresses disagreement
- Offers ideas, new insights and alternative explanations
- Justified opinions
- Reacts and refers to comments of other students
- Challenges the text or an answer the teacher sanctions as correct
Quadrants
Differentiating for Learning in STEM Teaching
Points to explore further:
- encouraging/ structuring opportunities for students to pose more questions
- I see, I think, I wonder
- hinge point questions
- fingers, thumbs, mini whiteboards – visible thinking
- Can you – identify, explain, use a diagram, draw/ write your own…
- Concept cartoons – could I develop these from student reflections and common misconceptions?
Concept cartoons:
Volume:
Identify how to calculate volume of different rectangular prisms – Here are a variety of rectangular prisms. Calculate the volume of each. Check your answer. How accurate are you?
Explain to someone else how to calculate volume of different rectangular prisms – Write or orally record how you calculate the volume of rectangular prisms.
Use a diagram to explain how to calculate volume of different rectangular prisms – Draw a diagram to your ideal piece of fudge, how many pieces would fit in the package and a diagram to show the dimensions that the package would need to be. Calculate the volume of the single serve and the total package.
Write your own problem involving the calculation of volume of rectangular prisms. Record it for others to challenge themselves with.