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I have a question regarding translations for assessment:
In my experience the students in my classes have different levels of comprehension, so I’m thinking of giving them sth we’ve already done in class or else let’s say a choice of two or three different texts and they can choose.
When I do any kind of assessment, I don’t give grades and compare them only to themselves and tell them to look for personal progress and this seems to work fine bc often kids tell me proudly about their progress.
This is so wonderful, Udo. I would guess that it is only because you are in a Waldorf school that you can do that. We simply can no longer compare the kids to each other must find a new saWhat you say above shows that the kindness that our children need in their experience in school is there for them, and they so need it!
Yes Ben, you are right. As far as I know only at Waldorfschools and maybe Montessori schools you can do this in Germany. It’s a sad business at state schools bc in years 3 and 4 they get a lot of tests which decide at the end of year 4 if they can go to a highschool. I believe since Pisa we have gone assesssment-crazy as if more testing guarantees more/better learning.
Udo what grades are you talking abt? Since we MUST proctor Cornerstone assessments we settled on comprehension-based assessments at all levels 1-4. In 1st and 2nd they basically listen and draw a circle around the corresponding picture; in third & 4th they listen to a story and circle the corresponding fact -2 are given in English. I am glad to send you our Spanish cornerstones.
For the state PERA assessment (some jacka$% came up with the idea of linking student progress with teacher evaluation, as if they are little widgets on a linear assembly line) anyhoo we created a 10 item assessment to be used in the beginning and end of year. It’s a sentence with one word (verb) or phrase in bold, and they have to write what it means. Hopefully they dunno at the beginning but acquire by the end of the yr. We came up w/a quick n dirty hit list of words by year – mostly based on the novel they’ll read in 3rd or 4th. I can send you that too – it took under 5 minutes to compile:}
For 3rd & 4th there are 10 items, for 1st & 2nd there are 5 items on the PERA assessment.
We need to have a few different KINDS of assessment to make the whole thing (seem) kosher…
Anyone interested in this stuff let me know and I’ll share it…
Alisa, at Waldorfschools we don’t do any kind of real grading in elementary and usually not at middle school level. We try to charactarize their behaviour in class and in general terms how they were doing in the language which in the first years is comprehension. But you can find the odd kid who speaks using one or two words of the L2 when appropriate even in year one.