From Jo - Year 5/6 class
This week I began a collaborative assessment maths task with my students. It's one that would normally be given to them to work on individually and timed. I split the students into year level groups (it's a levelled assessment) and gave each group ONE paper and sent them off to work on the problems collaboratively. I also asked them to assess themselves into one of 3 categories for each question:- We all knew how to do this question
- Some of us (named) knew how to do this question
- None of us knew how to do this question
They were very honest with themselves which was fantastic - but what was even better was the passion they showed as they talked/explained/puzzled out each question. Students who don't normally show any interest in academic learning getting very passionate when explaining things is a real joy to see. It also gave those students who hate to write a chance to shine since there was only ONE writer per group.
They haven't finished the assessment yet so it will be interesting to listen in again this coming week.
Can't wait to hear how it went :-) (the suspense is killing me ;-p)
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