imacs in Year 1-assessment task

I witnessed how effective the recording of student responses using audio recording, can be in Tracey's class this week. Tracey recorded students verbally explaining the life cycle of a frog, using visual cues (of the stages) as they went. The student that I heard was one who normally would be very challenged if he had had to write the explanations. His verbal descriptions, his use of language & correct terminology were superior to any of his written work & showed that he throughly knew the content. The next student (another boy) was generally considered a higher achieving student but also often displayed poorer written responses to his verbal. This student was able to give even better descriptions, using better language skills & more detail. Tracey can now use the recordings as an assessment, focusing on the HSIE outcome, rather than being hindered by poor writing examples which do not do justice to student's knowledge of the topic.

Tracey did a great job, -learning how to log in to our new laptops, setting up the macs to record in 'garageband' and giving the students a new way to show their learning!

Well done Trace!!
Frances