The WHY of GRASPS assessment design GRASPS is a model advocated for by Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe to guide teachers in designing authentic performance-based assessment. It’s a form of assessment that engages learners to employ their thinking skills and demonstrate application of essential knowledge, conceptual understanding, and skills acquired throughout a unit of learning.
Introduction Teachers are beginning to plan the learning spaces to welcome students for the upcoming academic school year of 2022-2023. Before we rush to buy materials or print posters to display in the classroom, it might be beneficial to pause and consider what makes an environment conducive and safe for learning. Can you recall any …
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Feedback Principles Since we launched the Formative and Feedback Project at KIS in 2017, we received positive responses from teachers, students, and parents. Teachers and students have not only become more intentional about summative and formative assessment design but also enhanced their understanding of the assessment criteria. Students are involved in setting their own learning goals and …
This diagram was inspired by the blog post, The agile learner in a VUCA world, written by @alohalavina. VUCA is an acronym used to describe volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity. Put simply, we live in a fast-changing world and in such unfamiliar environment, we face unpredictable changes, often are required to make decisions in complex systems, and to take …
Develop a fact-based worldview Factfullness by Hans Rosling is my first summer reading. Lots of good review have been shared and Bill Gages is also giving free copies to all colleague graduates this year. I was curious about how this book can help me discover my ignorance and perhaps changed the way I interpreted data. Hans …
Transcend –> Transit –> Transfer –> Transform My two children decided to keep fish at the beginning of this year. We drove around town and finally found a fish shop. They chose two tiny fish and one small fish tank. My 6 year-old and 9 year-old were so excited. They decorated the aquarium and got …