Classroom materials to assist in summarizing reading strategies
Welcome to Sun West's Supporting Assessment Wikispace
The purpose of this wikispace is to support administrators and teachers in Saskatchewan as they extend their professional learning about assessment.
This wikispace has been developed by the Sun West Assessment Committee, and the CAIT (Curriculum, Assessment, Instruction, Technology) Team
"Student assessment is a deliberate process used to provide feedback and evidence for making judgments about students' learning in relation to identified learning outcomes. Teachers guide the evaluation and reporting of student progress to parents/guardians" - Sun West Administrative Procedures 370: Student Assessment
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1.1 Assessment procedures are to support the principles of fair assessment and implement best practices for grading and reporting student achievement.
1.2 Teachers are to use a variety of assessment practices that are fair, objective, and reflect sound professional judgment.
1.3 Student grades are to reflect the level of achievement of the learning outcomes.
1.4 Learning Behaviours will be reported separately.
1.5 Diagnostic and formative assessments will be used to provide direction for improvement or adjustment to a program of instruction (This is assessment for learning).
1.6 Summative assessment will be used to make judgments about a student's achievement at the end of a sequence of instruction in order to assign a grade (assessment of learning).
1.7 Students will be involved in the assessment and grading process, through the use of rubrics, exemplars, inquiry learning, and other means.
1.8 Teachers are to report student progress to parents to guardians by means of parent-teacher-student conferences, reports cards, personal contact, and information technology such as
PowerSchool, emails, blogs, etc.
C21 is an organization of Canadians for 21st Century Learning and Innovation. C21 Canada has conducted research and developed “Shifting Minds – A 21st Century Vision of Public Education for Canada”. Incorporating this research, the Board of Education believes that Sun West students need to be competent in literacy, numeracy and science. Today’s knowledge and digital reality means that changes occur at an astronomical rate. This reality requires our students and staff to have additional competencies and skills. The Sun West School Division will therefore endeavor to infuse 21st Century learning skills into all curricula and into the development of any and all educational programming. Staff will be supported and expected to continually develop their 21st Century Competencies.
On September 26, 2018 we will celebrate and explore Character. Contact your Sun West school to find out more about the celebrations planned! #CultivateCharacter
Sun West EAL Handbook.
Sun West School Division have developed holistic EAL rubrics based on the provincial standards (Adapted from: “A GUIDE TO USING THE COMMON FRAMEWORK OF REFERENCE (CFR) WITH LEARNERS OF ENGLISH AS AN ADDITIONAL LANGUAGE” – September 2013 – Government of Saskatchewan, Ministry of Education).Teachers use these rubrics to assign CFR scores for the EAL students. Sun West CFR Progress Reports have been developed for three levels:Elementary Middle Level Secondary
This school division developed handbook offers many reading strategies that are applicable for use in the content areas.
Links to Web Page evaluations
Check out these sites to find ideas for using movies to engage kids with STEM from DailyStem.com
Activities to promote collaborative reading strategies in the classroom.
Materials to activate critical thinking as a reading strategy in the classroom.
Different types of supporting learning using Audacity
This is a summarizing tool for any subject area.
TRIMS stands for:
Title
Relationship
Introduction
Main Parts (organization)
Summary
Role and Situation
Students are a team of television producers. They have been asked to create a reality show that has the participants engage in challenges, tasks, choices and survival type situations. The reality show will consist of 3 - 5 episodes. The team will end the project with a brief presentation to a room of entertainment executives to "pitch" their show and a 20 –60 second commercial or promotional video of their show.
This PBL was created to extend student learning from the unit “Finding the Courage”. Specifically, my students studied the novel Hatchet by Gary Paulsen, and I wanted to create a meaningful connection for them that attaches to real-world situations. Students are competing against their other classmates to create the best possible Reality TV show, as well as they are utilizing critical thinking, creativity, communication, collaboration, and computer and digital technologies.
During the unit of Native Studies students were introduced to First Nation's Talking Circles. Students were introduced to the concept of a talking circle and proceeded to collaborate with one another to determine the rules and protocols that will be used during their talking circle.
Many parents and teachers are wondering what to say to kids during these extraordinary times. We don’t want to scare kids, but we must be truthful and find ways to talk to them honestly and hopefully about COVID-19.
Dr Phil McRae of the Alberta Teachers’ Association invited his friend and colleague, Dr Michael Rich—Pediatrician at Boston Children’s Hospital and Professor at Harvard Medical School and School of Public Health—to discuss how parents and teachers can get through this together with our kids.
The resulting interactive PDF and online resource provide suggestions on what might be said to children and youth during the pandemic, what can be done to support our public health care system, and how we will get through this together.
Goal: To teach Tangrams or “Ancient Chinese Puzzle” to Grade 3 Class.
This lesson connected to Social Studies, Art and Math.
Social Studies IN3.1 Analyze daily life in a diversity of communities.
A collection of tech tools, several links to various helpful websites, and strategies from our 21st Century Competencies workshops from 2014-2015.
Summary - Derek Doll Technology Integration - Space Station Project
Grade Six Science Space Unit- This is a Powerpoint that shows the Space Station building process and explains the steps for making a Powerpoint to share on the Ipads.
Technology Equipment Request Templates
Technology Budget Application Template
Technology Inventory