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Business & Enterprise:Tools for Teaching & Learning

May 2013

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Click here and then select

“Subjects A – F” (for Accounting,

Business, Business Studies and Economics)

or “National Programmes”

for LCVP

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• Register for updates and information about future courses: http://pdst.ie/node/79

• Dates for your diaryEconomics seminar: Saturday 14th SeptemberAccounting seminar: Saturday 28th September

• Subject support: http://pdst.ie/postprimary • Contact details: [email protected]• School support: http://pdst.ie/node/860

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Overview

• Anticipation Exercises• AfL Strategies:

– Bio Cube to improve questioning– Adobe Reader for formative feedback

• Google Forms and Flubaroo

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Anticipation Exercises

• Pre-reading strategy• Activates prior knowledge• Builds curiosity and stimulates interest• Before reading, students read several

statements with which they can agree or disagree

• Samples available http://pdst.ie/node/2921

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Anticipation ExerciseTopic: International Trade

http://business2000.ie/pdf/pdf_15/aib_15th_ed.pdfAgree Disagree Statement Agree Disagree

1 Ireland engages in a high level of trade with other countries

2 Ireland’s main trading partner continues to be the UK 3 Ireland’s top visible exports are agricultural products 4 There are no differences between products made for the

Irish market and products made for export

5 Researching foreign markets is more difficult that researching the Irish market

6 There are no restrictions to trade between Ireland and the rest of the world

7 A tariff is a tax on exports 8 Irish businesses export products to lower production

costs

Instructions: Guess answers, read passage, answer again, compare results before & after

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ASSESSMENT FOR LEARNING

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Assessment OF Learning

Assessment FOR Learning

Happens after learning takes place

An integral part of learning process

Information is gathered by teacher

Information is shared with learner

Information is usually transferred into marks

Information is available on quality of learning

Comparison with performance of others

Comparison with aims and objectives is important

Looks back on past learning

Looks forward to the next stage of learning

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Online Tools to support AfL

Assessment to improve learning, not to prove it

Practical strategies to improve learning:•Questioning

Bio Cube•Feedback (marking and oral)

Adobe Reader

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Effective Questioning

Framing, delivering, timing, soliciting and responding to:• Identify where students

currently are in their learning• Expand and deepen the

learning• Inform planning for future

learning

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Blooms Taxonomy in practice1. Knowledge 2. Comprehension 3. Application

Identify Explain Apply

Name/label Interpret Calculate/solve

Define Predict Choose/select

Describe Compare Determine

Match Contrast Illustrate

Recite Characterise Organise

State (5w’s) Conclude Present

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Blooms Taxonomy in practice4. Analysis 5. Synthesis 6. Evaluation

Analyse Imagine Consider

Distinguish Create/compose Debate

Explain Compile Critique

Observe Judge Determine

Compare/contrast Elaborate Evaluate

Investigate Formulate Recommend

Observe Integrate Support/prove

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Click the

image to

access

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Adobe Reader XI

• Free software• Provide students with feedback on their work• Record kept by teacher and student• Click to access step-by-step instructions

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Google Forms

• Create free questionnaires, surveys, evaluations of LCVP activities or tests

• Click to access step-by-step instructions

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Flubaroo

• Script added to Google Forms

• Allows for automatic correction of tests

• Click here to access a step-by-step demonstration

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