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Posted on 26 Jul 2018

Session 1: Beliefs about assessment

I have completed the planning stage for the first session of the workshop on assessment for my colleagues. The central idea of the workshop is assessment is integral to all effective…

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Posted on 21 Jul 201821 Jul 2018

Finding a path forward

The goal of this inquiry is to determine how best I can help improve the quality of student learning at my school through improved assessment practices, specifically feedback. I have…

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Posted on 20 Jul 201821 Jul 2018

Conclusions about our assessment policy

I spent some time the last few days reading over our school assessment policy and reflecting on it. On the whole, I think it is a policy focused on the…

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Posted on 14 Jul 201815 Jul 2018

Conceptions of Assessment

I recently read Gavin Brown’s article Teachers’ conceptions of assessment: implications for policy and professional development (2004). In this article four main conceptions were identified amongst primary school teachers in New…

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Posted on 12 Jul 201812 Jul 2018

Thinking about assessment

About eight months ago, a group of colleagues and I worked together to write our school’s assessment policy. We consulted research, investigated what other PYP schools were doing, wrote definitions,…

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Posted on 20 Nov 201721 Nov 2017

Taking stock

I began this course with a variety of questions, all of which I am now able to answer to some degree. What conception(s) of curriculum does the International Baccalaureate follow…

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Posted on 19 Nov 201721 Nov 2017

Reflecting on my Professional Communities

I have to confess that I am more of a silent stalker in the professional communities I follow than I am an active voice, and this is often the way…

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Posted on 19 Nov 201716 Nov 2018

What is agency?

The most recent communication from the IBPYP outlining some of the changes we can anticipate from the launch of the enhanced PYP later next year both highlighted some anticipated changes…

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