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Business & Enterprise: Tools for Teaching & Learning. May 2013. Click here and then select “Subjects A – F” (for Accounting, Business, Business Studies and Economics) or “National Programmes” for LCVP. Register for updates and information about future courses: http://pdst.ie/node/79
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Business & Enterprise:Tools for Teaching & Learning May 2013
Click here and then select “Subjects A – F” (for Accounting, Business, Business Studies and Economics) or “National Programmes” for LCVP
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: business@pdst.ie • School support: http://pdst.ie/node/860
Overview • Anticipation Exercises • AfL Strategies: • Bio Cube to improve questioning • Adobe Reader for formative feedback • Google Forms and Flubaroo
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
Anticipation ExerciseTopic: International Tradehttp://business2000.ie/pdf/pdf_15/aib_15th_ed.pdf
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
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
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
Google Forms • Create free questionnaires, surveys, evaluations of LCVP activities or tests • Click to access step-by-step instructions
Flubaroo • Script added to Google Forms • Allows for automatic correction of tests • Click here to access a step-by-step demonstration