Sharing my learning publicly
They say you should always do one thing that scares you. Giving a TedxTalk is exactly that thing for me. I adore TED talks and am always amazed at…
A journey of learning, growing and reflecting
They say you should always do one thing that scares you. Giving a TedxTalk is exactly that thing for me. I adore TED talks and am always amazed at…
Throughout educational literature, we are inundated with messages about the power of assessment to do everything from developing learner agency, to improving the quality of teachers (Wiliams, 2016), to guiding…
A number of times, after sitting through a moderation session with a group of teachers, I’ve asked myself, “Did our rubric really measure what our students are capable of doing?…
Validity, Reliability, and Fairness As discussed in a previous post, assessment literate teachers – or assessment capable teachers as the PYP calls them – understand standards of assessment quality. The…
It is a well established truism, that our beliefs as teachers impact our practice. This idea was further reinforced in reading Gavin Brown’s article Teachers’ conceptions of assessment: implications for…
A few years ago I introduced teacher inquiry groups in my school. Teacher inquiry groups (TIGs) are collaborative inquiries conducted by teachers based on an area of practice or problem…
Now that I have identified what skills and knowledge we need to be able to make sense of assessment data, I began wondering about what data we actually have and…
As PYP teachers, assessment data has a pivotal role in our professional inquiries as a source of “evidence”. However, before we can begin using assessment data purposefully, we need to…