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How do Teachers use assessments at NIDES?
How do Teachers use assessments at NIDES?
Understanding understanding: Assessments help teachers understand what students know and what they still need to learn. This is important because every student has different experiences and understanding.
Tracking growth: Assessments show teachers student growth over time. Tracking progress helps teachers see areas for stretching and areas for strengthening.
Emergent educational planning: Assessment supports meaningful educational planning that meets students where they are in their learning journey
BC Curriculum: Competency Model and Proficiency Scale
Core competencies: ongoing self-assessment and reflection
The Core Competencies in the new BC curriculum are sets of intellectual, personal, and social and emotional proficiencies that all students need to develop in order to engage in deep and life-long learning. The three Core Competencies are: Communication, Thinking, and Personal and Social. Core Competencies are evident in every area of learning, however they manifest themselves uniquely in each discipline. Students practice these competencies daily as they are an integral part of the learning in all curriculum areas.
Communication: The set of abilities that students use to impart and exchange information, experiences, and ideas. It is how they explore the world around them, in addition to understanding and effectively engaging in the use of digital media.
Thinking (creative and critical): The knowledge, skills, and processes associated with intellectual development. It is through their competency as thinkers that students take subject-specific concepts and content, and transform them into a new understanding. Thinking competence includes specific thinking skills, as well as habits of mind, and meta-cognitive awareness.
Personal and Social: The set of abilities that relate to students’ identity in their work, both as individuals as well as members of their community, and society. Personal and social competency encompasses the abilities students need to thrive as individuals, to understand and care about themselves and others, and to find and achieve their purpose in the world.
District Assessments
District Assessments
Learning ultimately supports the well-being of the self, the family, the community, the land, the spirits, and the ancestors.
Learning is holistic, reflexive, reflective, experiential, and relational (focused on connectedness, on reciprocal relationships, and a sense of place).
Learning involves recognizing the consequences of one‘s actions.
Learning involves generational roles and responsibilities.
Learning recognizes the role of Indigenous knowledge.
Learning is embedded in memory, history, and story.
Learning involves patience and time.
Learning requires exploration of one‘s identity.
Learning involves recognizing that some knowledge is sacred and only shared with permission and/or in certain situations.
*These principles of learning represent an attempt to identify common elements in the varied teaching and learning approaches that prevail within particular First Nations societies. It must be recognized that they do not capture the full reality of the approach used in any single First Peoples’ society.
Comox Valley School Strategic Plan for Education supports safe, equitable learning environments that life each learner to thrive, to grow and to share their unique gifts. The vision reflected in this plan strives toward compassionate, connected and personalized learning for all. This plan informs assessment practices at NIDES.
Communicating Learning: Learning Management Systems at NIDES
Communicating Learning: Learning Management Systems at NIDES
Brightspace offers tools, resources, and curriculum with interactive lessons, drpoboxes, and opportunties to communicate that provide continuous visibility into the student’s learning journey to support and celebrate their learning.
Seesaw offers tools, resources, and curriculum with interactive lessons, learning journal, and opportunities to communicate that provide continuous visibility into the student’s learning journey to support and celebrate their learning.
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