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.
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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
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End of year event Towards the end of the academic school year, teachers are very close to burnout, and students are also very exhausted. Students often watch many videos in the final week of school, and many teachers are probably googling activities to engage their students at the end of the semester. In my school,
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What are students getting out of the personal project? I enjoy tremendously in supporting students in completing their MYP personal projects. Through the process of completing a personal project, I feel the biggest growth that students develop is GRIT. The MYP personal project is essentially a design challenge that engages students in the process of ideation,
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Wonder Day Inquiry Are you looking for some inquiry project examples? Do you sometimes feel that the curriculum is so crowded that students do not have time to conduct an inquiry project? Are you trying to allocate time to increase student autonomy and agency? This upcoming Friday, March 15, there will be 11 teachers out
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Developing self-regulated learners through teacher research and innovation Rationales KIS International School, together with the KIS community, developed a 5-year strategic plan which runs from 2015-2020. One of our goals is to further develop the programmes to support and meet the needs of all students in preparation for them to be proud of themselves and their
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