During the past year, Gulf Islands School District was selected by BC’s Innovation Partnership to participate in a K-12 innovation project that focuses on “Communicating Student Learning” Teachers in the district have participated in workshops to explore various practices for communicating student learning to students and parents. Our purpose is to refine our assessment and reporting practices to best support student learning and to provide parents with good information about their child’s progress. During this first year many teachers in K-8 classrooms are enhancing student-led conferences, student portfolios, student and peer assessments, and learning stories. At the secondary level, one of the ways the Robotics 10-12 class is supporting learning is with descriptive summaries of student progress from both teacher and student via electronic portfolios. As we move forward with planning for the coming school year, we want to share your experiences as a learner and as a parent. You’re invited to go to the district website at www.sd64.bc.ca, and click the “Parent and Community Survey” link to complete the survey on “Communicating Student Learning.” The link is here: Students will have an opportunity to take the student survey (Grades 1-5) at school. The survey will be open until end of day on May 9, 2016. We look forward to hearing from you. |
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