This week have seen the first Three Way Conferences here at Chatsworth. You will have had the opportunity to come in and share in your child’s learning and development and hopefully had a very positive experience.
Assessing and reporting is a very important part of the Primary Years Programme. As part of the unit planning process the teachers use a range of techniques to assess the students.
Firstly, at the start of a new unit we assess the prior knowledge and understanding -
What do the students already know?
What do they already have experience of?
Another type of assessment is called formative assessment. This is where the teachers are continually assessing the understanding of the students in order to modify the teaching and learning to meet their needs and to make the lessons more effective.
Finally we use summative assessment. This is to assess how well they understood the unit. Did they understand the Central Idea? What is the evidence we can see that demonstrates their understanding?
These types of assessments build a picture of how well your child is doing that we can then feed back to you at our conferences and also in our end of semester report cards.
Alex Inman
PYP Coordinator
No comments:
Post a Comment