Questioning &
Authentic Assessment
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Professional Development - Enhancing Thinking with Questioning Techniques
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MEd. (MCT 821) -
Mastering the Art of Authentic Assessment
PD- Professional Development in-service course
MCT- Masters in Curriculum & Teaching
MCT
Course
Overview
This course aims to provide participants with different authentic assessment tools necessary to enhance their teaching and assessment practices as well as the learning of their students. It will address strategies to assess deep understanding, higher order thinking skills, real-world problem solving, and other high authentic intellectual quality so that these important skills can be incorporated into classroom teaching and learning.
Key Understandings:
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To learn about the differences between assessment and measurement/testing
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To master the conceptual and theoretical knowledge about authentic assessments
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To learn the authentic assessment task design and rubrics development
PD Course
Outline
Systematic questioning is essential to engaging students' thinking and to effective teaching and learning. Questions are the driving force of thinking. The questioning skills and models shared will focus on giving student questions, not answers. This workshop provides an introduction to the basic concepts and practice of good thinking and its facilitation through effective questioning. Teachers will have opportunities to design lessons that emphasize the framing and asking of questions to facilitate deep learning.
Key Understandings:
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Understand why systematic questioning is essential to engaging students' thinking and to effective teaching and learning;
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Develop questioning techniques by self-assessment of their questioning style, personal assumptions of students’ learning and preferences for questioning in the classroom;
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Understand purposes, types and levels of questions used to facilitate inquiry;
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Design effective questions to developing students’ inquiry skills;
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Enhance questioning technique using different questioning models to structure more meaningful inquiry in classroom discussion.
MASTERING THE ART OF AUTHENTIC ASSESSMENT : FROM CHALLENGES TO CHAMPIONS. VOLUME II / EDITORS, KIM KOH, JOHN YEO.
Singapore : Prentice Hall, 2011
"This volume presents useful examples of authentic assessment and related rubrics that have been designed and/or implemented by a group of teachers and lecturers. Volume I and Volume II of Mastering the Art of Authentic Assessment: from Challenges to Champions are intended for teachers, lecturers, administrators, policy makers and students who are interested in learning about quality task design and rubric development to promote students' learning of 21st century competencies. This volume includes the authors' rationale for designing authentic assessment, relevant literature on authentic assessment and assessment for learning. It also contains authentic tasks and rubrics, as well as the authors' reflective and insightful sharing of the benefits and challenges in implementing authentic assessment."