Purpose of Seesaw

 

Using Seesaw as Formative Assessment

How can Seesaw be used as a formative assessment tool? 

In teams:
Go and evaluate 1 or 2 students in the area.

What does this do to tell the learning story? Formative assessment?
What do we need to develop?
What are the advantages? What is missing?
What conversations are we having?
What is evident in the pieces?

What does the next piece look like? 

Is the criteria evident? 

Is the child goal evident? 

Teacher reflection? 

Each teacher set a Seesaw Goal:
Seesaw Goals: 2 Weeks
Using "Skills" on Seesaw

"Teachers using Seesaw for formative assessments can now tag their students' posts with their own set of skills or standards. They can assign a simple 1-4 star rating to student work to get a real-time understanding of how students are progressing towards key curriculum objectives. Skills also helps teachers inform instructional practice and save time on reporting.

Skills and ratings are only visible to teachers and are fully customisable to the learning goals your class is working towards."

Activities on Seesaw

"Now you can easily create and share activities for your students to complete in Seesaw on iOS and the web. Get inspired with grade-level specific activities from our library, or create your own!"

 

100 ways to use Seesaw

This is a Collaborative Presentation set up by Allanah King for New New Zealand teachers. There are lots of ideas for using activities on Seesaw. Please add your ideas!




Guidelines for posting on Seesaw:

Is your post about learning? 

Remember to add a caption to say why you are adding the post.

This shows that I am learning to… 

This shows that I can… 

I figured out that… 

Wow! I did this for the first time… 

I am sharing this post because… 

I learnt that… 

I think that I did a good job with this because… 

This shows that I am meeting my goal… 

My next steps will be... 

I could improve this piece by... 

Next (time) I would like to try...

August 24th: Reflecting on Positive Education Parent Workshop

After a successful Positive Education Parent Workshop, we reflected on what went well and what would be even better if...

Inquiry Internal Evaluation

We have been working through an Internal Evaluation for Inquiry. 

After multiple discussions with the staff, we have identified what we need to prioritise:

1. There needs to be a consistent planning format across the school. 
2. We need school wide success criteria for measuring soft skills/ key competencies
3. We need consistent language when developing SC, positively framed, they are based on Bloom’s Taxonomy and they distinguish between conceptual and procedural knowledge.
4. In order to tell the learning story, we need to unpack how best to use success criteria and communicate each criterion. We feel that breaking it into parts may be more effective than treating it as a whole. Seesaw is the vehicle for telling the learning story. 

ACTION: Staff need to plan for the use of the managing self success criteria formatively.  

Chose just one part at a time.

We need to have some information to share around this for our Inquiry Internal Evaluation and are conscious that it's week 6 already! Half way through the term!

Next week we will be sending out a survey also so that we can get more evidence of our practice in Inquiry.

Please familiarise yourselves as to where we are up to:

Inquiry Internal Evaluation

Monday 7th August, Maths: Internal Evaluation and intro to Number Talks

The Maths PD links with our Internal Evaluation.

The session involved:
Reading Research Brief: Five “Key Strategies” for Formative Assessment (Dylan Wiliam)
Watching Number Talks Clips by Jo Boaler and Kyle Thain
Looking at Seesaw Maths as a form of formative assessment
We Discussed next steps...

Here are the slides from the meeting (including video links):

As part of our Internal Evaluation, we will be trying new things in Maths and present back on Monday 4th September: 

I have started a Number Talks Crowd Sourced Document. It is full of great resources: