Induction - Day 2: Narrative Assessments

Narrative Assessments - What are these?   

A story about each learner's learning.  These make the learning visible and transparent for student and parent.

The narrative assessment has been derived from ECE.   It is a way to record the learning (more important than the outcomes).  12 narratives per learner, per year (3 per learner, per term).

The purpose for today's learning:
WALT: describe the purpose of and write timely and meaningful learning stories.
TIB: @OrmPS we:

Guarantee every learner engages in innovative, personalised, world-class learning.

The narrative assessment is a story about the learning that was taking place and digital capture (photo or video) for support.   Some LHs use Comic Life to create a visual narrative story, others use the Google doc template.   All narrative assessments are loaded to the learner's blog and parents are notified via email.  A schedule is kept up to date to ensure that all learners have a range of narrative stories and we are up to date with posting to their blogs.

* would be a great idea to add a 'follow by email' gadget to each learner's blog, then enter the parents' email address(es) so that they are notified when a post has been made to their child's blog.

We moved around in a rotation to hear how each LH managed their narrative assessments.  It was interesting to see the differences, but will most likely follow what took place in LH2 during 2015 as this seemed to work well.

To put it all into practice, we were then required to write a learning story on heath's Learning Model presentation.   It was a little tricky to include vocab from the OrmPS principles, but I think I managed it quite well for my first effort.

Learner:  Heath  McNeil       Learning Coach:  Mrs Croll              Date:  26.1.2016

Learning Area:  How we learn

Learning Observed and Vision Principles

This morning Heath shared the OrmPS learning model with the new Learning Coaches.  He began with two videos about what it means to learn - today, and in the future; which created curiosity from the Learning Coaches.  This lead to small group discussions where Heath joined in with and made connections to the language in the videos.  He was able to clearly articulate the four areas of the model and how they can become part of our everyday language.

Evidence of learning

Heath used various visual tools to help encourage thinking and participation from the group of Learning Coaches.

Next Learning Steps

create A3 copies of the OrmPS learning model for all the Learning Coaches discover other amazing videos to share with others

Next Step:

To think and note who to assess when I'm planning and remember to keep my camera/iPad handy for capturing those learning moments, especially the impromptu ones.