Assessment

What?
For ELT today we looked at assessments that we did last year and discussed what needs to be changed when assessing our learners this year.

So what?
First we discussed the 7 principles of learning which are:

• Make learning central, encourage engagement, and be where

      learners come to understand themselves as learners

• Ensure that learning is social and often collaborative
• Be highly attuned to learners’ motivations and the importance of

      emotions

• Be acutely sensitive to individual differences including in prior

      knowledge

• Be demanding for each learner but without excessive overload
• Use assessments consistent with its aims, with strong emphasis on

      formative feedback

• Promote horizontal connectedness across activities and subjects, in-and out-of-school

Then we discussed: 

What are our Non-Negotiables?

What assessment do we use to group and inform teaching?

Does assessment look different for our target learners?

What do we do once assessment is complete? 

Finally we discussed what narrative assessments are, some of the things that we can use as evidence, what needs to be in a narrative assessment and looked at some examples of narrative assessments from previous years.

Now what?
As a school we need to look at what assessments did not work for us and needs to be changed.