Assessment Tools for Implementing Growing Success
(TAIE International Institute – April, 2011)
This session will focus on the sections of Growing Success: Assessment, Evaluation, and Reporting in Ontario Schools, Grades 1-12, 2010 that private schools are required to implement and examine the implementation issues. We will look in detail at implications for teacher planning, instruction, assessment, and grading. Sample lesson plan templates with learning goals and success criteria will be developed collaboratively and we will provide samples of tools that teachers can use for assessment for learning and assessment as learning. We will also examine ways in which grading by triangulation (products, observations, conversations) can be implemented. The session will use as its framework the Ministry of Education’s new inspection template that is required to be implemented in school year 2011/2012. The inspection puts increased emphasis on classroom observation during an inspection
Presenters:
Mr. Jim Sebastian
Mr. Sebastian completed his M.Ed. in Curriculum and Administration at the University of Toronto. He has 35 years of experience as an educator and administrator, and has an extensive background in Canadian-based education and training programs at the high-school and post-secondary levels. Jim worked as an Education Officer for the Ontario Ministry of Education from 1989 until 2005. He is currently involved in many educational projects in Canada and abroad, including directing and consulting to schools in China and Bangladesh.
Along with Dr. Ronnie Miller, he has been instrumental in the establishment of Professional Development Seminars, with the aim of this forum providing consistent high-quality educational and administrative support to private schools. PDS has evolved into a key service organization provincially, serving the needs of private schools.
Dr. Ronnie Miller
Ronnie Miller received his M.Ed. in Educational Administration, and Ph.D. in History & Philosophy of Education from the University of Toronto – OISE. Dr. Miller has completed substantial research in the fields of multiculturalism and the teaching of Critical Thinking Skills, has taught history at the High School and University levels, and is the author of two books published by academic presses. Ronnie has substantial experience in the area of private education, including the establishment of the Halton Learning Centre (a registered private school) and its respective high school programs. Over the last 25 years Dr. Miller has been involved with private schools in South Africa, Australia and Canada. In 1997, Dr. Miller gathered a team of educators and administrators, who now provide an array of educational and administrative services to a large number of private schools, as well as First Nation schools.
