Create A Formative Assessment Using G-Suits

Session 6 - John Meing - Create a formative assessment using g-suits

This was a very theory based workshop with lots of discussion around John Hattie - effect size

Douglas Fisher’s - visible learning in mathematics

“Formative assessment refers to to a wide variety of methods that teachers use to conduct in-process evaluations of students comprehension, learning needs and academic progress during a lesson, unit, or course .”

Dillian William (good friends of Paul Black) - discusses the difference between formative and summative assessment.

Proposed Model

Doug fisher - learning can be at any point along the continuum - All 4 components must be present in every lesson at some point - it creates a whole cycle of learning if you do all each day.

Focused instruction -

• purpose, (not intention/objectives - because relevance must be there - e.g. must have intention and relevance (interesting and relevance.)
• Modeling-  open up your brain and talk about the process.  I statements not we or you statements … When I read this … I was thinking about…

When i saw the problem … META-COGNITION should have a because, why or how.

Guided instruction

The strategic use of questions, prompts and cues.

• Ask questions prompt or cues that means that they do the cognitive work not us …
• Insert yourself into the group or take children out of different groups and work with you as a small group.

Collaborative

• Student to student interaction (in academic ways, with academic language).
• No on learns language from listening to language they only use it by producing the language - students must use the language to learn the language.

Independent learning

• In-class we are pretty good at this - we aren’t so good at out of class independent learning - we give homework prematurely …

The keys to making this work within our classrooms

Establish purpose  

School planning template

Teacher modeling

I do it …

Guided instruction

• share 3 different versions easy, medium and hard and have students choose their own - if all choose easy then we know we have a problem
• In google docs - you can set the comments to only the owner and teacher can comment.
• If you design your Kahoot well you can set it up as a good formative assessment tool.
• Google sheets - validation can support - not super interactive but will allow them to check their answer and have instructions on how to add. - also self marking.

Productive group work

• Google suite’s is all shareable …
• Class Dojo - PBL (positive behaviour learning - which doesn’t always work) - however they do have a think/pair/share.

Independent tasks

• Captivate - a new tool.??? Not sure of its use…

Their schools worksheet tool/example. This was interesting but I have to say that I love how as a school and team we plan/talk and together with our children we Learn, Create, Share within learning contexts that relate specifically to our (students and to some degree teachers) interests and learning needs.

This was an interesting workshop to attend as many that were offered were about applying skills rather than the theory behind it. Was interesting to see/hear an Australian schools point of view. John worked at a school that currently has been awarded an innovation award 3 years in a row for their innovation in education.

Side note: Cool problem - see picture (answer is 5 - count the circles)