managing assessment for learning how learning platforms can help busy teachers
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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
