AUTHENTIC PROGRESS ASSESSMENT OF 10TH GRADERS’ PROJECT WORK Hoang Tang Duc Department of Foreign Languages Vinh University
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4 https://www.tes.com/lessons/USbZjN9 oywgJfg/project-based-learning
Driving question or Challenge This is framed by meaningful questions related to a problem to be solved or a question to be answered at an appropriate level of challenge.
Inquiry & Innovation Students engage in a rigorous, extended process of asking questions, finding resources, and applying information.
Need to know This focuses on student learning goals, key knowledge, communicative skills understandings and academic content.
Student Voice & Choice Students make some decisions about the project, including how they work and what they create, and how their work is evaluated.
21 st Century Skills Students are provided with essential skills and knowledge necessary for work, life and citizenship such as communication, critical thinking/problem solving, collaboration, and self-management, etc.
Feedback & Revision Students revise, give, receive, and use feedback to improve their process and products.
Publicly presented product Students publicize their project work by explaining, displaying and/or presenting it in /beyond the classroom.
Presentation Overview Introduction Projects in Tieng Anh 10 Benefits & Challenges of Projects Assessment of Projects Conclusion
Introduction
Classroom observations and informal interviews • Little guidance on how to conduct projects • Difficult to give instructions • Hard to assess students’ project work • Limited time to conduct projects in class How to instruct and assess students’ project work?
MOET (2014). Official Document 5333 / BGDĐT -GDTrH • Guideline on implementing language performance-driven assessment for English subject at high schools since the academic year 2014-2015 • Instructional activities, testing & assessment aim at motivating students to transfer language knowledge and skills acquired from the classroom to their real world. • Practice activities include: - writing paper - video clip - portfolio - journal - project
Projects in Tieng Anh 10
Tieng Anh 10 (English textbook for 10 th graders) • Is the first of a three-level English language set of textbooks for Vietnamese upper secondary schools. • follows the systematic, cyclical and theme-based curriculum approved by the Minister of Education and Training on 23 rd November 2012. • provides students with language knowledge & skills to completely develop students’ communicative competence in four language skills (Hoang et al., 2013, p. 3)
• 10 units • 05 sections 1. Getting started 2. Language 3. Skills 4. Communication & Culture 5. Looking back & Project
Projects in Tieng Anh 10 • designed in the last part of the unit • help students to apply the language and skills throughout the unit to perform a task in a realistic situation • enhance team spirits • done outside the class, at home or during break time • Have students share the results of their project work in class (Hoang et al., 2013, p.8)
Projects in Tieng Anh 10 Unit Theme Topic Project Doing a survey on family life of 1. Our Lives Family Life the students in the class Doing a survey on the Your Body 2. Our Lives importance of categories in and You staying healthy Doing research on a Vietnamese 3. Our Lives Music folk song and a Dangdut song Making a plan to help a person/ 4. Our Society For a Better a place in need in the students’ Community community Describing an imaginary 5. Our Society Inventions invention
Projects in Tieng Anh 10 Unit Theme Topic Project 6. Our Society Gender Doing a survey about gender Equality equality in the class/ school Preparing a presentation about 7. Our Cultural some aspect of Vietnamese Environment Diversity culture Doing a survey to find out how New Ways to 8. Our Future students use electronic devices learn to learn English Preparing a presentation about Preserving 9. Our environmental problems of the the local area and an action plan to Environment Environment deal with them Doing a survey to find out 10. Our Environment Ecotourism students’ experience in ecotourism
Unit 9: Preseving the Environment Project (p.47) 1. Imagine the area in which your school is located has suffered from environmental pollution. Work in groups – Discuss one type of pollution and its causes and effects on the natural environment and the health of the local people. – Find some pictures/ photos to illustrate the pollution problem. – Write some practical advice on how to reduce this type of pollution and an action plan. 2. Prepare and give a presentation to your class.
obtain a deeper knowledge of the topic that they are studying and to apply what they have already known to their real world by planning a specific action. acquire understandings about negative impacts of the pollution problem and give solutions to protect the environment in community.
Benefits of PBL in English Classrooms of 10 th graders
Promotes the 21 st Century skills 4 Emphasize interactive and 3 purposeful activities and develop integrated skills 2 Enhance the value of learning Touch students’ 1 interests, aptitudes, & learning styles
PBL - a dynamic approach in EFL classrooms Multiple Intelligences Theory https://www.tes.com/lessons/zev7plZuzMoH4Q/learning-styles
Challenges of PBL in English Classrooms of 10 th graders
The guideline on how to teach the Project is described in the teacher’s book, BUT It just lists some basic instructional activities in order, rather than indicating specific ways to successfully implement PBL in class. be confused about setting the objectives of a PBL lesson TEACHERS find difficult to organize PBL in a limited time do not thoroughly understand principles & procedure of a PBL lesson
Projects assigned in the textbook sometimes are not suitable for our classes because we have limited materials or lack of background knowledge about the project we intend to teach. the Project in the new textbook is too hard for me to instruct, especially for big classes in which students have multiple English proficiency levels or poor attitudes to PBL.
The most difficult … How to assess student project work? What tools should be used for project evaluation? Criteria for project assessment? self/ peer/ teacher evaluation forms? rubrics checklists Thinking outside of the box and trying to teach these critical skills through a project can be extremely challenging for some teachers (FluentU, 2016).”
Authentic progress assessment of 10th graders’ project work
Authentic progress assessment • Score the final project work • Demonstrate students’ growth and performance in English • Evaluate their learning progress and achievement at the end of a project • Give constructive feedback to their work Teachers need to use multiple assessment strategies & methods. Performance tasks Project checklists Evaluation rubrics Teamwork plan Others
Rubrics
Rubric “A rubric simply lists a set of criteria which define and describe the important components of the work being planned or evaluated. A given criterion is then stated in several different levels of completion or competence, with a weighted score assigned to each level” (Global SchoolNet Foundation) Web-based rubrics: Rubistar & Rubric Builder http://rubistar.4teachers.org/ http://www.rubricbuilder.com/learn.html#format http://landmark-project.com/classweb/tools/rubric_builder.php3
Checklist
Checklist • Check list is a set of information or content requirements needed for a project. • Different projects with different goals have different forms of checklist correlating to the learning goals. • remind students to follow the checklist in order to ensure that they are on track when carrying out the project.
Project teamwork plan
Project Teamwork Plan • helps students to plan and manage activities in implementing the project • describes each task and how the project will be implemented to achieve the learning objectives • helps the group leader and members know their own responsibilities in doing project according to his/her interest and aptitude. • includes activities, timeline, responsible person, comments, etc.
Sample project-based learning lesson plan and assessment tools?
LESSON PLAN Tieng Anh 10, Book 2, Unit 9: Preserving the Environment, Lesson: Project (p.47) ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION 1. Imagine the area in which your school is located has suffered from environmental pollution. Work in groups. - Discuss one type of pollution and its causes and effects on the natural environment and the health of the local people. - Find some pictures/ photos to illustrate the pollution problem. - Write some practical advice on how to reduce this type of pollution and an action plan. 2. Prepare and give a presentation to your class.
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