Feedback
The teacher monitors students during the learning experiences and assessment opportunities through:
- observation of group work and individual work
- discussion and questioning
- analysis of the students’ work samples.
The teacher monitors Andrew’s level of independence during the learning experiences and assessment opportunities.
The teacher provides specific feedback, such as:
Tier 1
- ‘Fantastic, you have placed the symbols on your picture graph using equal spacing.’
- ‘Check your counting. It would be easier to count the insects if you sort them into groups first.’
- ‘Great work Andrew. Your counting matches your graph.’
- ‘Andrew, the beetles should be grouped together. Put this beetle with the other beetles.’
Tier 2
- ‘I like your title, “insects in a square metre”. ’
- ‘Your tallying shows that there were 16 ants in the square metre area. The ants’ column shows 15. Fix the column so it represents 16 ants.’
Tier 3
- ‘ “Type of Insect” is an appropriate label for the horizontal axis of your column graph.’
- ‘Your table shows that there were 10 flies. The star represents two flies in your key. If a star represents two flies, there should be five stars on your picture graph.’