Janeen - Effective Teaching Practise

Minute by minute 'Formative Assessments' These are some examples I used with my students from 'Learning in the fast lane' by S. Pepper Rollins.  According to Pepper Rollins (2014) it's to administer frequent ungraded assessments for formative purposes that focus on helping students learn rather than measure what they already learned (or didn't learn).  I agree with this statement as with these rich formative assessments students are able to identify their next learning steps, teachers can provide good feedback and feedforward to steer their students in the right direction, and students feel more confident to perform an activity or task knowing what they've achieved so far and what they still need to achieve.   I did the 'stick it dot' formative assessment for speech writing and this gave me a clear indication to take a workshop of 'WALT expand our ideas.'  From the workshop this gave the students more confidence and a clearer underst...

Jack's group showing lots of engagement in the 'Illustrator' role My year 8 students were already equipped with the tools needed to achieve a literacy circle.   Zoey and I thought it would be a wonderful idea for my year 8 students to model this to her class.  Eva's group using the dictionaries and thesauruses in the 'Word Master' role  Room 13 students knew what the expectations were while another student lead a group and we unpacked the WALT in student language to understand how they will benefit from this. Room 13 students engaged in the learning  All students showed brilliant respect to my year 8's as they were very nervous to start off with.  But after the first group, my year 8's showed confidence and Room 13 students were engaged in each 'role' rotation. Sam's group (back corner) immersed in the 'Discussion Director' roled

Today Zoey and I met to moderate our e-asTTle writing.  By using the e-asTTle writing marking rubric and e-asTTle writing exemplars, these supported our moderation in making OTJ's together. Collaborating with Zoey. Samples of e-asTTle writing.