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Assessment for Learning in Primary Science

Assessment for Learning in Primary Science. Potter’s Bar Project Planning Day 2 Jane Turner, Heather Gilbertson Tuesday 9 th February. What’s the Potter’s Bar Project about?. Improving teaching and learning in primary science through assessment for learning

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Assessment for Learning in Primary Science

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  1. Assessment for Learning in Primary Science Potter’s Bar Project Planning Day 2 Jane Turner, Heather Gilbertson Tuesday 9th February

  2. What’s the Potter’s Bar Project about? • Improving teaching and learning in primary science through assessment for learning • Working alongside colleagues from other schools • Reflecting on changes and the impact on children’s learning

  3. Both sets of teachers used AfL techniques e.g. hands down, increasing wait time, sharing criteria with learners, peer & self-assessment Spirit of AfL • Pupils decide what quality work might look like • Pupils’ statements are probed and challenged • Pupils are involved in higher order thinking • Autonomous learners • Collective wisdom Letter of AfL • Focus on technical errors • Closed questions • Teacher adjudicates on pupils’ statements • Focus on right/wrong • Guess what the teacher is thinking ‘How teachers engage with Assessment for Learning: lessons from the classroom’Bethan Marshall and Mary Jane Drummond

  4. Focus on scientific skills • Asking questions and having ideas • Deciding which method/strategy to use • Carrying out a fair test, including deciding on the range and values of variables • Choosing equipment and measuring • Ensuring reliable readings • Communicating findings (graphs) • Identifying patterns and drawing conclusions • Offering explanations

  5. What to do On Planning half day • Come with title of next investigation/enquiry • Decide which science skills to highlight , how to teach children about them & get them to recognise success criteria In class Before doing enquiry • Teach children about skill – T & P • Look at good/bad examples of skill together – P (& T) • Work together to pick out what’s good and decide criteria – P (& T) • Do next enquiry – P • Compare performance on skill to criteria – P • Decide how far my/our performance matched criteria - P

  6. Different ways of finding out Carrying out a fair test, where we change one factor, measure or observe the effect it has on something else whilst keeping all other factors the same e.g. which type of paper absorbs most water Carrying out a survey and looking for trends in populations e.g. do taller people jump higher Observing or measuring something over time e.g. how does a growing plant change; what happens to the temperature of hot water when we leave it in the classroom Classifying things according to characteristics (materials/mini-beasts) or according to behaviour (materials which do/do not allow light to pass through) (AlsoExploringandProblem Solving e.g.focussed play/can I find a way to ….separate salt and sand, make a bulb light)

  7. Using AfL with science skills • Children need to be equipped with an understanding of skills in order to be able to set criteria/peer assess/debate and discuss about getting and interpreting evidence • Development of skills is not always achieved just by doing more practical work • Need to teach about skills explicitly before asking them to use AfL techniques

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