Assessment For Learning
Building assessment into instruction creates a way for students to have access to feedback on a continual basis which is essential to learning and improved performance. Good feedback IS formative assessment. Teaching students to seek feedback from a variety of sources and to make small changes based on that feedback, helps them become self-directed learners. Learning to use feedback from the result of their actions/movement, use the technology available to provide feedback, seek out peers to provide feedback, and to view feedback from their instructors as an opportunity to grow, sets them on the path to improving performance and becoming life long learners. Even the youngest students can understand the simple process of trying - making changes - and trying again. There are no sweeter words to hear yelled out than "I DID IT. Watch me." Finding ways for students to collaborate, have input in, or choose how they share their growth is always a positive. Everyone likes to have choices.
Strategies & Resources
A Versatile Visual Scale - A versatile scale developed with images that can be used in a variety of ways.
Learn-Know-Show-Grow - A framework for students and teachers to think about learning & sharing growth.
Write It - Recite It - Draw It - Diagram/Label It - The more and varied ways a students process information the more likely it is for long term potentiation. In other words "it's sticking for the long haul."
Physical Education Assessment Toolkit - A resource with many ideas and templates for teachers looking to develop assessment for learning.
Make It Count: Providing Feedback as Formative Assessment by Troy Hicks - Edutopia, October 2014
Learn-Know-Show-Grow - A framework for students and teachers to think about learning & sharing growth.
Write It - Recite It - Draw It - Diagram/Label It - The more and varied ways a students process information the more likely it is for long term potentiation. In other words "it's sticking for the long haul."
Physical Education Assessment Toolkit - A resource with many ideas and templates for teachers looking to develop assessment for learning.
Make It Count: Providing Feedback as Formative Assessment by Troy Hicks - Edutopia, October 2014
Boxes & Bullets (.pdf) - This is a physical education unit reflection template that can be used with any unit. It is a result of a collaboration between myself and the 3rd and 4th grade teacher. She teaches this format and uses it in a variety of subject areas with students in the classroom. At the end of our inline skating unit she shows them a video that I have posted on my website, the students have their inline skating portfolio skill sheets to use as a resource and they compete the reflection in the classroom. I use it as a reflection for PE and she uses it as one of their writing assessments in language arts.