#assessment teaching

[drabbles-of-writing]

"Kai's good with kids!" slightly incorrect. Kai is good with stubborn, troublesome kids. Dudes been shown to be dogshit when solely interacting with pretty much all people younger than him except for Nya, Lloyd, & Wyldfyre

He raised Nya, but we know that girl. We've seen her. I know she was a NIGHTMARE kid. She has strong opinions, holds grudges, and does whatever she wants. I love her for this. I also know teenage Kai was fighting for his LIFE. Lloyd was Little Shit Extraordinaire, and he didn't have the bonus of being blood-related to Kai, so Kai had 0 incentive to like him. Even still, Kai heard a small child in distress and immediately Locked In and decided awesome, I'm protecting you forever now. Wyldfyre similarly annoyed the absolute shit out of him, but Kai had his Growth. He still threw hands with Wyldfyre but the difference here is he knew she could fight back. He clocked pretty immediately she had an impatient temper but had a very strong love for her tiny family of 2 (oh hey s1 Kai when'd you get here) and in NO time began flawlessly mentoring.

Kai is like a guy who went to a camp for troubled youths, grew up, then decided to become a counselor at that same camp. He can wrangle a teenage dirtbag out of an alley like a stray cat but if you put him in the same room as a fairly normal kid he's looking at them like this

[entaberp]

How to Implement Competency-Based Learning in Your Classroom

As a result of Entab's experiential learning assets, students and schools can implement CBL more effectively. Students can use the resources to gain hands-on experience and develop practical skills. Schools can use the resources to design robust curricula for their students. It allows for more effective and engaging learning experiences. The experiential learning assets also facilitate collaboration and communication among students, teachers, and parents, creating a deeper understanding of the material and leading to improved outcomes. This creates an environment where students feel supported and motivated to learn, leading to greater success.

[clonerightsagenda]

Grading in the AI era is like *looks at first submission* huh that's a weird mistake *sees the same mistake in 4 other submissions* oh this is the chatGPT answer to this question isn't it

[crescenthistory]

yes, the consequences of ai in academia can be devastating and we should be concerned about it. but you know what else we should be concerned about? the impact of the overt suspicion and paranoia against students just trying to get through their degrees to survive in this world

you think scrutinising students and trying to decipher who has and hasn’t used ai will be done without bias or prejudice? you think international students won’t be flagged for using “too formal/static” language because that’s how they learned english? you think poc, disabled or other minorities that are often belittled won’t be unjustly flagged for sounding “smarter than they are”? you think lower-class students will be unaffected by having to spend extra time and resources to show up at meetings to prove they haven’t used ai?

it’s never going to be a fair and proportionate impact when we focus all our energy on “catching” the bad ones

conversations around ai should always acknowledge and emphasise the safety of students and people, we cannot become hyper vigilant unpaid police who try to point out who’s “fake” with no regard to how subconscious biases affect the direction of your finger

[itspileofgoodthings]

I am legitimately so proud of all I have done in teaching this week.

[hannie-dul-set]

they're best friends.

[prettyboysdontlookatexplosions]

one of my ed hot takes is that the idea that standardized tests measure too narrow a range of skills is basically backwards. standardized tests measure too many skills - whether you can read, but also shit like whether you have the emotional maturity to select a counterintuitively worded answer that must be correct because the others are obviously wrong. it’s AMAZING how hard this is for students, and how much work it takes to coach them out of “it just didn’t sound right”

[entaberp]

The Essential Elements of Competency-Based Assessment

Competency-based assessment requires clear objectives, valid and reliable measures of competency, and meaningful feedback. These elements ensure that the assessment is accurate and provides useful information to the learner.Competency-based assessment is an evaluation technique that focuses on a learner's ability to demonstrate the knowledge, skills, and attitudes necessary to achieve a predetermined learning goal. It focuses on the mastery of skills and knowledge, rather than the amount of time spent on a task.

Entab's Competency-Based Assessments provide an innovative approach to evaluation tailored to individual student needs. It focuses on assessing students' knowledge and skills rather than performance. This approach encourages students to take ownership of their learning and reach their full potential.

[richardtheteacher]

10 Tips to Help High School Students Achieve High Performance

An article by Richard James Rogers (Award-Winning Author of The Quick Guide to Classroom Management and The Power of Praise: Empowering Students Through Positive Feedback). This blog post is illustrated by Pop Sutthiya Lertyongphati. Success in high school is not just about hard work: it’s about working smart, using proven strategies that boost learning, memory, and motivation. Here are 10…

[404-unfoundbymystudents]

You know what I love.

When the absolute worst fucking asshole teacher at work does a "reply all" to the maths team, asking me where the formula sheet is for the exam and why I didn't give it to them when I printed them off for all the classes.

And then I get to reply all back and "apologise for the miscommunication", because last term's exam had "formula sheet" in the conditions, and this exam does not.

I definitely feel a little bit bad (I included screenshots of the front pages showing the conditions).

But, then I remember that this teacher made an official complaint about another teacher for something that did not happen (I was there!), and that she eventually caused that teacher to quit. I remember this teacher threatened a student with taking away his indigenous scholarship. I remember this teacher wrote her own assessments so badly that we couldn't even work out what they were assessing.

So, yeah I feel a bit bad. But mostly I feel bad for the students.

Maybe one day, the admin team will actually do something about this teacher. But until then :/

[apocalypticdemon]

i CANNOT wait for this semester to be over. 23 hours remain. God.

[mollys-crochet]

being on a risk assessment at mainstream secondary school is so wild honestly

like i had to pinkie promise a teaching assistant that i had the ability to walk from the art department to the inclusion department (which isn't far btw) by myself without causing havoc and running away

like? what is my life?

[ratbastarddotfuck]

please help I'm teaching an invisible audience in my garage about sound design and audio engineering using the audio drama I'm listening to as an example

[theloveinc]

this week is gonna beat my ass

[songofwizardry]

on my Last Bit of marking from the giant week of assessments and labwork we had three weeks ago (i could 100% have been done earlier but i marked so many lab write ups that i needed A Break and just procrastinated the last set of tests but now they're due tomorrow so) and like i'm so excited to be done but also. i fully only get four weeks before another class does an assessment and i think that's quite rude tbh.

[the-fibre-stuff]

I know I already gave Nonnie too much time and effort and space on my dash. But the urge to add "off the clock" after "CYC Instructor" is rising. It would be petty and oh so funny.