During the last week of November, we met with three groups of Kindergarten – Grade 9 educators to discuss the challenges and current positive assessment practices in Mission Public School District.

Feedback was gathered from small groups of educators (teachers and administrators) at each Roundtable on Assessment.  They were asked to respond to two questions:

1. What are the challenges for you in terms of classroom and school-based assessment and/or reporting?
2. Are there things that are working for you in terms of classroom and school-based assessment that you would like to share?

Please click on the links below to read the collated reports from each grade grouping:

Kindergarten – Grade 3 Educator Feedback

Grade 4 – Grade 6 Educator Feedback

Middle School Educator Feedback

Some of the common themes identified at the Roundtables include:

• The need for consistent and meaningful literacy and numeracy assessment practices;
• Self-assessment teaching strategies and meaningful self-assessment practices;
• Learning about different reporting options and how to engage the whole learning community in the process.

And the winners are…..

There was a draw for Professional Learning Resources at each sharing session. Congratulations to the teacher-winners! Your books have been ordered and we hope to deliver them to you before the winter holiday begins.

                      School                                                                                      Book Title/Link

West Heights Community School	Joyful Literacy Interventions Part One
Dewdney Elementary	Learning to Write and Loving It!
Hillside Traditional School	Joyful Literacy Interventions Part One
Ecole Christine Morrison	Science First Peoples (FNESC)
West Heights Community School	Creating Cultures of Thinking
Edwin S. Richards Elementary	K-10 Science & Ethnobotany
Ecole Heritage Park Middle School	Righting Canada’s Wrongs – Residential School
Hatzic Middle School	Teaching About Historical Thinking
Hatzic Middle School	Powerful Readers – A. Gear
Hatzic Middle School	Powerful Readers – A. Gear