As part of the release of Inquiry Mindset Assessment Edition, I would like to share with you some of the sketchnotes from the book. This one is titled 10 Steps to Nurture Student Ownership of Assessment. It frames chapter two and is the conceptual framework for creating more of a student agency rich assessment practice. This assessment continuum is outlined step-by-step throughout the chapters of the book. Each step is its own chapter and outlines how teachers can implement the conceptual scaffolding to empower students in the assessment realm of inquiry.
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From the book: “In my inquiry experiences working with students in the class-room and with teachers in schools around the world, I have observed that student agency is more likely to be successfully achieved if strong and clear scaffolding is identified and planned. As we communicate the vision and outline the small steps, we will take to make this new vision a reality, a clear scaffolding takes shape, and a direction and process emerge. With planning, intentionality, implementation, reflection, revision, and responsiveness, the small steps toward the reimagined landscape eventually yield the benefits of a learning experience that is rich in student agency.
This is how inquiry thrives. Not by throwing our kids into the deep end of the inquiry pool or by backing away from learning entirely. Inquiry thrives as we become partners in learning. Inquiry thrives when it is coached and modeled. Inquiry thrives when we scaffold for the understanding and acquisition of the skills of agency.
If we want our students to be more meaningfully involved in the assessment of their learning, we must scaffold and take small steps toward a reimagined assessment experience. We must provide the structure that equips students to engage in reflective practice and thinking and empowers them to do more of the heavy lifting of assessment. To that end, I’ve identified ten small steps you can take to support your students as they take ownership of their assessment.
The 10 Steps to Nurture Student Ownership of Assessment provide the necessary scaffolding. This series of behaviours, tasks, routines, and protocols, when woven together over time, create an assessment continuum that fine-tunes our students’ assessment compass.”
For release details, access to the collection of free supplementary resources (see below), and bulk order process, stay tuned here over the coming weeks.
The collection of free supplementary resources includes:
20+ page Book Club Resource to guide collaborative reading and group professional development.
Younger Years Resource: a 35+ page resource written by co-author of the first Inquiry Mindset Rebecca Bathurst-Hunt. This resource is specifically for teachers of the younger years and is full of extensions activities and ideas to take your reading further.
Teacher Journal: a 15+ page resource full of guiding questions to help teachers reflect and plan for a more student-centered learning experience.
Student Journal: another 15+ page resource full of guiding questions to help students reflect on themselves as learners and present the opportunity to begin learning from a strength-based perspective.
Guiding Questions Resource: a collection of more than 200 guiding questions from Inquiry Mindset Assessment Edition all in one place and categorized, ready for you to use in your planning of inquiry with your students.
Learner Profile Slides: a resource for your students to help reflect and organize who they are, what curiosities and interests they have, and what learning strengths and stretches they possess.
NEW Sketchnotes: all of the new sketchnotes created by Rebecca Bathurst-Hunt will be available for download for you to use with your colleagues and your students.