Assessment+Staff+Meeting

Type in the content of your new page here. Staff meeting notes from Monday 27 August Focus: To develop and establish a schoolwide agreement about the PURPOSE and PRACTICE of assessment across all teaching and learning programmes at TAPS

Reading: discussion on assessment practice at taps where we discussed taps practice currently used and had an open forum discussion re practices that may need revisiting in terms of syndicate and whole school practice. assessment tools: running records every 3/4 weeks in the junior department running records collated 1x a term unless 6 months or below chronological age school entry 5 years 6 weeks 5 years 6 months 6 year nets which is the best fit scenario for teachers in terms of testing sight words list words which list A B or C are these appropriate which words ? PM benchmarks should these be a variety of texts rather than specifically Pm benchmarks 2x a year Probe tests exactly what level is appropriate at what level do we probe test. it is presently set at level 18 is this appropriate PATS listening comprehension reading Star reading / 4 subgroups do we need to use both for valid assessment results can we introduce some of these tests that are nationally normed at year three level this staff meeting formed a commencement for discussion re the collation of our Assessment Overview at TAPS 2007