Creating Opportunities for Self-assessment
In the previous cycle of this plan, I worked with a method of assessment where students co-constructed criteria for a final product. In this cycle, the priority is shifting to how students are monitoring their use off competencies as they are working towards and end goal.
An image that came across my twitter feed that compared formative and summative assessments to who is tasting a soup. I thought this analogy related to the idea of promoting self-reflection on how students are progressing through a task. Before a chef would serve his soup, he would taste, add spices, let it simmer, or potentially even restart. In the same way, students would be able to monitor their their progress and reflect on what they can add or change as they approach their final goal.
In relation to learning competencies, I think it would be important to find ways that students could recognize themselves the steps and ideas required for improvement. The action at this stage is to create opportunities to recognize the quality of their product before it is complete and refine the actions needed to enhance the product.
Similar co-constructing criteria for a summative assessments, I would want to look for opportunities for students to recognize space for improvement and determine what effective practice of these competencies are.
In what ways can teachers create opportunities for students to self-monitor their application of skills and competencies in their tasks?
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