Mangere Bridge Kindergarten is continuing their amazing work in this area in spite of the funding for the Centres of Innovation work being stopped.
Their findings are now being published in a number of places. To find this work please go to their Blog ( Link is below and to the right.
They are also continuing to disseminate information through their popular information sessions. Details of these are also on their Blog.
Teachers from the Kindergarten spoke at several sessions on Transition in 2008 and 2009 at Kei Tua o te Pae PD Seminars in Auckland and their work was truly inspiring for both participants and the facilitation team. They share simple practical ideas as well as larger philosophical discussions.
It is great to know we can start acccesing their findings in the literature.
Thanks Mangere Bridge.
(Dont forget to also follow the stories about the rather mobile guines pigs!)
Monday, March 22, 2010
Wednesday, February 3, 2010
New Assessment Journal
It is great to see a new peer reviewed journal out from NZCER - New Zealand Council for Educational Research.
It is simply named Assessment Matters and looks like a 'must have' for anyone interested in assessment and education.
Along with some other great articles about school assessment there is one from Margaret Carr on the early childhood exemplars-
Kei tua o te pae: Assessing learning that reaches beyond the self and beyond the horizon
Margaret Carr
"This paper outlines the development and the conceptual design of an assessment for learning resource of 177 exemplars from early childhood contexts. Two metaphors provide the foundation for the resource: Te Whäriki and Kei Tua o te Pae. These metaphors underpin a discussion about assessment of learner outcomes that reach “beyond the self” and “beyond the horizon”, using the resource as an example. The resource that is built on these two metaphors includes three themes: principles that frame up the assessment; practices that are based on narrative; and a view of progression that aligns with the principles. The assessment practice exemplified is sited in stories and portfolios, and the paper concludes with an argument for the consequential validity of narrative assessments."
It is simply named Assessment Matters and looks like a 'must have' for anyone interested in assessment and education.
Along with some other great articles about school assessment there is one from Margaret Carr on the early childhood exemplars-
Kei tua o te pae: Assessing learning that reaches beyond the self and beyond the horizon
Margaret Carr
"This paper outlines the development and the conceptual design of an assessment for learning resource of 177 exemplars from early childhood contexts. Two metaphors provide the foundation for the resource: Te Whäriki and Kei Tua o te Pae. These metaphors underpin a discussion about assessment of learner outcomes that reach “beyond the self” and “beyond the horizon”, using the resource as an example. The resource that is built on these two metaphors includes three themes: principles that frame up the assessment; practices that are based on narrative; and a view of progression that aligns with the principles. The assessment practice exemplified is sited in stories and portfolios, and the paper concludes with an argument for the consequential validity of narrative assessments."
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
Interest in assessment
WOW! So you are still coming here for information! I feel a little bad that I haven't been more active here. I am pleased to see so many visitors and it is interesting to see the websites you choose from here. Please be patient. I will still have plenty to add here.
I will be teaching aspects of this topic to ECE student teachers and with a change in employer and responsibilities will be able to be more critically reflective than before.
I am still suffering a touch of new jobitis along with trying to sort out my own study and research options for this year.
I promise to be back by February checking links and adding information.
I will be teaching aspects of this topic to ECE student teachers and with a change in employer and responsibilities will be able to be more critically reflective than before.
I am still suffering a touch of new jobitis along with trying to sort out my own study and research options for this year.
I promise to be back by February checking links and adding information.
Thursday, December 17, 2009
A new direction
I am now officially no longer employed by the University and the Kei Tua o te Pae contract and will gradually be re-structuring this blog. For those of you interested in assessment and planning in the early years, there will still be useful material here for you. Hopefully in time there will also be a wider range of material.
I intend this to be more of a personal reflective journal but the links to other web sites and blogs will remain.
I will be on leave for a bit now and then start a new position as an early childhood lecturer at a private teacher education provider in Auckland.
I am considering a focus on assessment for my thesis but I will be maintaining a strong interest in online environments for teaching and professional development of adults. My own experimentation and discoveries will become a part of the ICT fun and learning blog ( see link on this Blog).
I intend this to be more of a personal reflective journal but the links to other web sites and blogs will remain.
I will be on leave for a bit now and then start a new position as an early childhood lecturer at a private teacher education provider in Auckland.
I am considering a focus on assessment for my thesis but I will be maintaining a strong interest in online environments for teaching and professional development of adults. My own experimentation and discoveries will become a part of the ICT fun and learning blog ( see link on this Blog).
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Back again
Well I didnt expect the pause to be quite so long!
It has been a very busy time for everyone, as is usual at this time of the year.
As you may all know the Kei Tua o te Pae PD contract is ending, as is hte Te Whaariki contract.
The Team here at the University of Auckland have put together a proposal for 2010 which has been well supported and approved by the Faculty of Education and Uniservices.
Auckand ECE Services will recieve this information shortly so keep your eyes peeled for that. There is some initial information in our Bulletin Board which went out this week.
It has been a very busy time for everyone, as is usual at this time of the year.
As you may all know the Kei Tua o te Pae PD contract is ending, as is hte Te Whaariki contract.
The Team here at the University of Auckland have put together a proposal for 2010 which has been well supported and approved by the Faculty of Education and Uniservices.
Auckand ECE Services will recieve this information shortly so keep your eyes peeled for that. There is some initial information in our Bulletin Board which went out this week.
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