Classroom Communication
What is Classroom Communication?
Effective pedagogy and assessment involve two-way communication with students on their learning, and a range of skills and techniques can assist teachers in improving their classroom communication.
What are the 4 components of the Assessment Literacy Module?
What are the 2 Components from the module of Assessment Requirements?
Ethical and Legal Implications of Assessment, Moderation.
What is another word for Criteria Sheet?
Rubric.
What is the Purpose of Feedback?
The purpose of feedback is to provide meaningful information about a student’s strengths and areas for improvement to support them to progress towards their learning goals.
What are the 8 types of Classroom Communication?
Positive Reinforcement, Clear and Concise Instruction, Open-ended Questions, Non-verbal Communication, Probing Questions, Active Listening, Paraphrasing, Metacommunication.
What are 3 Principles and Practices of Assessment?
Validity, Reliability, Sufficiency, Accessibility, Transparency, Informative, Evidence-based, Ongoing, Aligned, Authenticity, Flexibility, Formative assessment, Summative assessment.
What are the two focuses of School Assessment Policies?
Standards Elaborations can be used to?
Align curriculum, assessment and reporting,
Develop task-specific standards (marking guides),
Make consistent, comparable and defensible judgments on a five-point scale based on evidence of learning in an individual assessment or a folio of student work.
ongoing,
individualised,
specific to the teaching, learning and assessment related to the standards/descriptions,
clear, and in language that is readily interpreted by the intended audiences,
timely so that students can act on it and adjust their learning,
collaborative so that students, teachers and parents/carers all support and participate in the students’ learning,
delivered to support the learner to reflect, act on the feedback and build their capacity for self-assessment.
What are some Active Learning Strategies?
Group work, Peer Instruction, Case studies, Flipped Classroom, Simulations.
What are the 3 Purposes of Assessment?
What are the 6 Ethical and Legal Implications of Assessment?
Confidentiality and Privacy, Fairness and Equity, Validity and Reliability, Ethical Considerations, Legal Compliance, Accountability.
How do teachers judge student work?
Teachers judge the evidence in student work using task-specific standards that contribute to a planned assessment folio containing evidence of student learning.
What are the 3 purposes of reporting?
information about progress and achievement to parents/carers and students
summaries of the school’s achievements and progress for school communities
statewide and national statistical information and analyses to broader educational communities.
What is are the examples provided for Non-verbal Communication?
Eye Contact, Facial Expressions, Gestures, Body Language, Physical Proximity.
What are the 5 types of Assessment?
Knowledge-based, Practical, Performance-based, Self, Peer.
What are the 6 factors of Ethical and Legal Implications of Assessment?
Confidentiality and privacy, Fairness and equity, Validity and reliability, Ethical considerations, Legal compliance, Accountability.
What is a Standards Elaboration regarding the Australian Curriculum?
The standards elaborations provide teachers with a tool for making consistent, comparable and defensible judgments about how well, on a five-point scale, students have demonstrated what they know, understand and can do.
What are the 6 characteristics of effective reporting?
aligned with the curriculum and assessment,
defensible, comparable and based on clearly defined achievement standards,
accurate,
individualised,
meaningful, in plain English so they are easy to interpret and understand.
How much do we remember of what what we say?
70%
What are the 2 levels categorising Cognitive Verbs?
Level of Consciousness, Level of Knowledge.
What 3 legal requirements must Educators comply with?
Australian Curriculum, Assessment, and Reporting Authority (ACARA) guidelines, Education and Training Reform Act 2006, and the Disability Discrimination Act 1992.
On-balance judgement approach, looking at a pattern of student evidence.
What underpins the legal obligation of schools and teachers regarding reporting?
National Education Agreement (Australian Government 2015).