Managing assessment for learning how learning platforms can help busy teachers

Managing assessment for learning how learning platforms can help busy teachers

Morten Fahlvik Educational Reseracher

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”Reading is the skill” Doug Lemov

Reading: The foundation for the Norwegian school system. 1739: The king decided to establish a school system in Norway. Purpose: Learn to read (the bible) All children should have two subjects; Reading and Christianity Writing and arithmetic would be offered if the parents demanded it.

2001: the PISA- shock

Udir – Assessment for Learning

The Norwegian Directorate for Education and Training is responsible for the development of kindergarten and primary and secondary education. The Directorate is the executive agency for the Ministry of Education and Research.

Dylan Wiliam Formative assessment

John Hattie

Reading comprehension strategies and skill mapping * Leselos * SOL

Blended learning / Blended teaching

What happens if these concepts are blended together?

Non-fiction Text: The Ice Age

Goals: • Be able to explain how glaciers

shaped the landscape

• Recognize and know the physical traces of the Ice Age

• Be able to calculate the ice thickness

• Be able to place the ice age on a timeline

• Develop individual reading strategies

• Motivate students to read the text several times

• Increase insight into own reading comprehension

Pre-knowledge

The pupils create a common page to gather information about what they know before the unit starts.

Pupil made page with polls and facts

Online discussion

Question: Why did the ice start to melt by the coast?

Searching for new words

Collecting words for a word cloud

http://www.wordle.net/

Word cloud

Quite visible which words that need attention.

Every student made a crossword

Solving one of the crosswords in class

Know – Want to learn - Learned

Reading comprehension in the unified classroom

• A community of learners was established

• More pupils were activated

• The silent pupils got a voice into the class discussions

• The pupils were better prepared for class discussions

• The teacher gathered evidence of learning

Morten Fahlvik Educational Researcher

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