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Assessment for OER4Schools programme: Portfolios
== Assessment for OER4Schools programme: Portfolios ==


In order to gain a certificate for the OER4Schools programme, teachers will be assessed. As part of this assessment, we are now asking teachers to prepare a simple portfolio, used for interim assessment. This portfolio should include your 5 “best” pieces of work (eg completed activity template or lesson template, concept map, etc) from what you’ve done so far this year. These should be quality items that illustrate what you have learnt, and what you feel you have implemented successfully.
'''INTERIM PORTFOLIOS'''


Please prepare those five items (and write your name at the top of each sheet); hopefully you already have material in your folders that you can dig out or draw on. It can be an activity outline using one technique (e.g. traffic lights or no hands up) or a (plan for a) whole lesson. We then would like you to do an audio reflection that mentions each item in turn.  
In order to gain a certificate for the OER4Schools programme, teachers will be assessed. As part of this assessment, we would like you to prepare a simple portfolio, to be used for interim assessment. This portfolio should include your 3 “best” pieces of work (eg completed activity template, concept map, etc) from what you’ve done so far. These should be quality items that illustrate what you have learnt, and what you feel you have implemented successfully.
 
Please prepare those three items (and write your name at the top of each sheet); hopefully you already have material in your folders that you can dig out or draw on. It can be an activity outline using one technique (e.g. robots/traffic lights or no hands up) or a (plan for a) whole lesson. We then would like you to do an audio reflection that mentions each item in turn.  


At the start of each reflection, state clearly which item you are talking about (eg. “my class discussion about how diseases are transmitted”, or my “concept map on parts of a plant”), and then discuss the following questions:
At the start of each reflection, state clearly which item you are talking about (eg. “my class discussion about how diseases are transmitted”, or my “concept map on parts of a plant”), and then discuss the following questions:
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What did you learn from that about what works or doesn’t work to support interactive teaching and learning?
What did you learn from that about what works or doesn’t work to support interactive teaching and learning?


Note. We encourage you to include developing new computer skills but please do this through showcasing your new knowledge about interactive teaching techniques rather than just including computer skills by themselves – so your chosen activities or examples of learning about interactive teaching may or may not involve computer use!
'''Note:'''  We encourage you to include developing new computer skills but please do this through showcasing your new knowledge about interactive teaching techniques rather than just including computer skills by themselves – so your chosen activities or examples of learning about interactive teaching may or may not involve computer use.
 
Note. that we will need you to submit the work as requested (copies of the 5 items plus uploading a reflection to the server) in order to award certificates at the end of the year.
 
Bjoern & Sara
4th July 2012
 


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We emphasise that the portfolio we have asked you to prepare is not to test you. Instead, it is an opportunity for you to showcase what you have achieved, what you have learned, and how your thinking and practice have moved on. We do not need “paper evidence”, your own recollection and thoughts are enough evidence for your own learning. Additional material is simply to support the audio reflection and make it easier to understand.
Further guidance.


We emphasise that the portfolio we have asked you to prepare is not to test you. Instead, it is an opportunity for you to showcase what you have achieved, what you have learned, and how your thinking and practice have moved on. We all know that you have moved on, we just want you to document that! We do not need “paper evidence”, but your own recollection and thoughts are enough evidence for your own learning!
What can I submit? You can submit concept maps, lesson plans, activity templates, collections of images, … e.g. for cumulative talk, you would submit the classroom activity that went with it. Go through your homework throughout the course, and see what you made.


Because we heard that you were struggling to put the portfolio together, we thought we would provide some further guidance!
The type of work you submit doesn’t need to be unique - it’s ok for several people to submit e.g. mindmaps, even on the same topic.  Because these are your own, and because you have used them in your classroom, they will be different, and tell a learning story about you.


Three pieces of work. It’s ok to just submit three pieces of work, but please do submit three. You can submit more if you like. We’ll give you feedback on anything you submit, so it’s in your own interest to submit a good range of your work!
'''Note:'''  We will need you to submit the work as requested (copies of the 3 items plus uploading a reflection to the server) in order to award certificates at the end of the year.


What can I submit? You can submit concept maps, lesson plans, activity templates, collections of images, … e.g. for traffic lights, you would submit the classroom activity that went with it. Go through your homework throughout the course, and see what you made!
'''Additional guidance for audio reflection'''


The type of work you submit doesn’t need to be unique - it’s ok for several people to submit e.g. mindmaps, even on the same topic! Because these are your own, and because you have used them in your classroom, they will be different, and tell a learning story about yourself.
For each piece of work, do an audio reflection. To do this, think about how you would show a teacher in another school what you have been learning through the OER4S programme? What concrete examples would you share with them? How would you show them the range of things you have covered? Suppose then this teacher asked you some questions, e.g. What worked well, what didn’t work so well?  What would you say to them?  Ideally you would make a link between the workshop session and your classroom trial. Tell us where this idea came from, and how you applied it. We don’t want or need evidence - we just want to know, in your own words, what you have learned.


For each piece of work, do an audio reflection. To do this, think about how you would show a teacher in another school what you have been learning through the OER4S programme? What concrete examples would you share with them? How would you show them the range of things you have covered? Suppose then this teacher asked you some questions, e.g. What worked well, what didn’t work so well?  What would you say to them?
Example:


Ideally you would make a link between the workshop session and your classroom trial. Tell us  where did the idea come from, and how you applied it. We don’t want or need evidence - we just want to know, if your own words, what you have learned!
“I learned about _________ in session ____. I thought that it could be really useful for my pupils during a lesson on _________, I tried it out with my students. The work I have submitted is an example of ________. I have also submitted an example of what the students did. I had initially written this ______ [for the students], and the students then added ________. Students responded differently. Mary had difficulty with it because ___________. (E.g. some computer did not work - why did it not work?!) I concluded the lesson with a plenary, and they told me these answers. If I was to do this again, I would do it like this: ______. I would also apply this tool to another lesson on such and such a topic ________ because ______________“.


We’ll give a short example, for the sort of reflection we would like you to record. For example: “I learned about _________ in session ____. I thought that it could be really useful for my pupils during a lesson on _________, I tried it out with my students. The work I have submitted is an example of ________. I have also submitted an example of what the students did. I had initially written this ______ [for the students], and the students then added ________. Students responded differently. Mary had difficulty with it because ___________. (E.g. some computer did not work - why did it not work?!) I concluded the lesson with a plenary, and they told me these answers. If I was to do this again, I would do it like this: ______. I would also apply this tool to another lesson on such and such a topic ________ because ______________“.


This is an email to participants and is slightly more refined as some issues have already been worked through.
'''FINAL PORTFOLIOS'''


FINAL PORTFOLIOS
To obtain the full OER4Schools programme certificate, we would like you to present
To obtain the full OER4Schools programme certificate, we would like
three more examples for your final portfolios. These
you to present three more examples for your final portfolios. These
should concentrate on the later units this time. Please don't feel that
should concentrate on Units 5 and 6 this time. Please don't feel that
you need to write a lot about the techniques themselves this time,
you need to write a lot about the techniques themselves this time,
however:
however.


Present as much student work and lesson plans/materials as you can, so
Present as much student work and lesson plans/materials as you can, so
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them.
them.


Almost all of the reflections in your portfolios were very positive so
Don't hesitate to dwell too on the challenges and pitfalls you
don't hesitate to dwell too on the challenges and pitfalls you
experienced and how you overcame them. It's very unlikely that every
experienced and how you overcame them. It's very unlikely that every
new technique would work brilliantly the first time you tried it,
new technique would work brilliantly the first time you tried it,
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