Assessment & the '5 Big Ideas'

Our group generated some great discussion around assessment. We are going to investigate effectively teaching the 5 Big Ideas for reading and develop some evaluative comments around how this impacts on assessment and, in turn, reporting. 

The strategies we are going to use are:

• Trial and error: unpacking the 5 Big Ideas and using the support material as a guide
• Choosing a group of students to work wit in order to implement the effectiveness of the strategy i.e: assessment
• Choose a big idea, target the best way to assess the idea, backward map as to how to get there
• Develop a timeline of student progress referencing First Steps (WA)

Indicators of success:

• Project: Taking on an aspect of the big idea and working towards effectively teaching the concept. Monitoring student growth
• Benchmarks: Mechanics of reading Separating Reading and Comprehension