Assessing Key Competencies

When we assess I always ask what value is this for moving my students on in their learning.
We need to blend the best of what we already know with what is new.
The assessment needs to be relevant and effective, providing them with the next steps of learning.
Learning happens in many places, not just at school.
Children need to develop multi literacies for learning.
New learning challenges us with a call for creative problem solving.
Students need to know what sucess looks like but also how to assess themselves against a criteria.
Working with others is central to life-long learning.
We need to know what life long learning is; it is so vast. It is like the end product.
Page 10 and 11 gave us strategies to think about. Wendy really liked the idea that the students are involved in selecting work to share with home about their learning.

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Junior SyndicateKaye said: She found it enlightening that the students that had internet access, obtain better results than those who didnt as they spent less time watching television.Sue said: It is challenging for teachers to be invloved in such a rapid technological change, and extend their skills to maintain their cycle of learning rather than clusters of knowledge. " Wonderfully beneficial to the terrifyingly difficult."The implications for us as educators are:- Understanding not just what the children are learning but how they are learning it.- Instilling the basic literacy skills still remains our core focus, as a foundation to all other learning. Concern was expressed that a particular child, who is computer literate, has severe concerntration issues.- The children do not want to wait and there is so much visual language coming at them, they do not want to sit their watching when they could be involved (because they can).- The corncerns of the parents and the limitations that they enforce on us as educators of their children. - Multiple and varied assessments needed.It was raised that what we decided we wanted our learners to look like, were reflected in the enGauge 21st century skills.