Term 2 Update

This term we have got the ball rolling with our podcasting already! This terms focus is Our Solar System, we have lots of excited learners with great questions about space, make sure you watch our podcasts! This is our new KPE (Korero Pt England) blog, please have a look and comment on our blogs.

I've been wondering a lot about how I'm able to assess my learners throughout the year without having to probe them every second week. I remember a workshop I went to with Gabriel Hughes, he gave us a prompt that you can put into Gemini/Chat GPT, this gives you a text relevant to the students' reading age, and multiple different questions for them to answer about a small text that is created. This is the prompt you put in below.

"I would like an article on the topic of the race to the moon. Use language that is appropriate for students reading at 12 years old.

Based on this text, I need you to create follow-up questions for my students. I would like 2 questions that target vocabulary, 3 questions which target comprehension, 3 which require inference, and 3 questions which connect the text to the wider world."

I'm going to do this with my learners this week. I will score them on vocabulary, comprehension, inference, and connection to the wider world. Once I've done this, I'll graph the results and see what comprehension questions I need to focus on, I can add these questions to our podcasts we are creating.

This can be a summative assessment I can do with my learners a couple of times a term, to see where they're at and what our next learning steps are.

In my podcasts I'm finding that it's taking my learners to long to create the questions for each other in the Non-Fiction texts, I have either been giving the questions to them or co-constructing these questions in our small groups.

Will be back soon with my results!