What is assessment and what makes it “good?” Assessment is gathering information to ensure teachers make informed decisions about student progress. Five key components of good assessment are: classroom assessment, authenticity, formative, special needs intervention, and benchmarking. These enhance and...
What makes a review or planning meeting person centred? You will know when a meeting is really person centred – you will see and feel the difference – Check outFacilitating a person centred review “Person centred planning is a way of organising around one person to define and create a bet...
This hearing is conducted by an impartial hearing officer who listens to both sides and makes a decisionbased on the evidence presented. That last part is crucial. Once you are in due process, it is all about the evidence and the case presented. It is no longer about the child. Sad, bu...
Your Rights as a Parent:The scenario usually goes like this.Parent is frustrated and unhappy with how things are going with their IEPand the process. So, they join ourChat Groupand their first question is, “So what are my rights?” This one really makes me want to facepalm. Because thi...
A good media literacy program teaches students to investigate whether there might be any bias in the media they're consuming, she says. Students should learn to verify the journalistic integrity of that they're consuming, she says. “It’s kind of like if I went to a doctor. I wouldn’...
A well-known VTS is looking at a piece of text (arts, fiction, informational, etc) and asking these three questions: What’s going on in this text/image/process? What do you see/hear that makes you say that? What more can we find?
In terms of public media, it is hip to hold up a petri dish, to look through a microscope, telescope, spectroscope, etc., and it makes a good impression to show photos of young students wearing protective glasses while working in a lab. Advertising for a university by way of presenting ...
A well-known VTS is looking at a piece of text (arts, fiction, informational, etc) and asking these three questions: What’s going on in this text/image/process? What do you see/hear that makes you say that? What more can we find?
A well-known VTS is looking at a piece of text (arts, fiction, informational, etc) and asking these three questions: What’s going on in this text/image/process? What do you see/hear that makes you say that? What more can we find?
a powerful experience for me. Before the trip, I would only wear my hearing aids if I had a good hair day and my hair was down; if I felt my hair needed to be up I was so embarrassed that I would rather miss out on information then feel like a robot who was different from the...