Collaboration Tower Narrative Assessment

Learner: Darren                     Learning Coach:  Mr Hattie               Date: 28 July 2015

Learning Area: Developmental Collaboration

Learning Observed

This term at Ormiston Primary we are promoting Collaboration. We have been teaching the skills required to collaborate effectively. Today I was called over to see a group’s creation. To my surprise they had made a Tower the size of them. It had a repeating pattern the whole way up and was built collaboratively. Darren explained to me how they had made a tower and what it is going to be used for. He had created an imaginary use for the tower and who was working in the tower.  The language that had come out of the description of tower was very impressive The skills that were required for this project were teamwork, communication of who does what, discussion of the ongoing pattern and respect. It was impressive to see how they had come up with this tower. A totally self motivated project. Well done Darren!

Evidence of learning

The Groups end product. Very impressive.

Key Competencies/Vision Principles

The Key Competencies used for this project are “thinking” as the group had to think about what they were going to make with the materials that they had. Also Collaboration was used with this project. The learners had delegated jobs and what they were responsible for and there was discussion during this time. “Relating to others” was being used as they had to show respect for others and their ideas to achieve their task.

Next Learning Steps

Darren’s next learning steps are: more complex description of his project. writing about his project and how he created it.

iExperience: Collaboration in Music

Narrative Assessment - Numeracy

Learner: Darren                     Learning Coach: Mr Hattie                 Date: 2 July 2015

Learning Area: Learning Habitat 2 - Mathematics

Learning Observed

During our lesson Darren was learning how to instantly recall basic facts to 20. This is a skill that he has a lot of good strategies for, but it has not been cemented in. The aim is for these problems to knowledge and not having to think about how to solve them. Darren has been getting pretty good at solving them quickly. For practice Darren has been playing “Dice Wars”. This game needs two dice and the way you play is by rolling both dice and as quickly as you can add them together. An extension from this is subtraction them. This game has really improved the speed that Darren is answering them.

Evidence of learning

It’s now Darren’s turn to roll the dice.

Key Competencies/Vision Principles

During this game the Key Competency “thinking” is being used as they had to think about what the problem is that they are working out. “Managing self” is being used as this is an independent task. This game is a game where you have to collaborate with others, so “Relating to others” is being shown.

Next Learning Steps

Darren’s Next Learning Steps are: instantly recognising patterns to 100 e.g. 60 + 40 or 70 - 20 instantly recognising halves to 20.